Appleâs goal with the new iPhone 16E seems to be the same as with the iPhone SE: offer a very good, cheap smartphone to entice price-sensitive shoppers to either leave Android or upgrade from a much older iPhone. From what weâve seen so far, the company seems to have succeeded â but maybe a little too well: thereâs not a whole lot of space differentiating the 16E from the pricier iPhone 16. Thatâs something Apple will have to remedy the next time its flagship phone updates come around if it wants that model to stand out.
There used to be a large gap between the iPhone SE and the standard model iPhone. The SE had an old design with thick bezels and a home button. It had a small screen, a slower processor, and less storage. If you bought the SE, you knew you werenât getting the latest and greatest.
The iPhone 16E looks a lot more like a flagship phone at a budget price. It has an OLED display, FaceID, Appleâs latest processor, and even the customizable Action Button â a perfect feature for nerding things up that was once exclusive to iPhone 15 Pro phones. It only has a single camera, but itâs been upgraded to a 48-megapixel affair that Apple bills as a â2-in-1 …
