on why I'm switching to Android.

Well, yes, that might be the right decision

for me personally, there are two sides to every argument,

and the iPhone SE 2020 is one hell of a side.

In case you've been living under a rock,

the iPhone SE takes the same tried and true formula

from the original SE which, of course, came out

over four years ago, and simply takes all of the most recent

internals and puts it into a much more affordable package

because at 399, there's no doubt that this is probably

the best value iPhone that has ever been made.

Also, that's very red.

At $399, you're not sacrificing a lot beyond, I guess,

the fact that it still comes with the tiny five watt charger

in the box.

So you still get water resistance,

something that is pretty rare on phones at this price.

You get wireless charging, and probably most importantly,

you get the same Apple A13 chip as in the full iPhone 11

and the 11 Pro range, which means that this $399 phone

is probably the most powerful phone

that you can get regardless of price.

One small recommendation though, while you can

pick up the base model with 64 gigs of storage,

for only $50 more, you can upgrade that to 128 gigs,

and I would definitely recommend that.

It's certainly usable to spend time with a 64-gig phone,

but considering it's not that much more, you're gonna get

a lot more longevity, especially considering that this phone

should be getting updates for years to come.

Apple delivered this with a very simple strategy,

the parts bin.

So the design here is very similar to 2018's iPhone 8,

which is an upgraded version of the iPhone 7,

which you could buy after the iPhone 6 came out.

Of course, that being the S model of the iPhone 6,

so this design, I guess, is five years old at this point,

which to be fair, if it ain't broke, don't fix it,

and if you're broke, buy an iPhone SE.

I'll admit, I'm not a massive fan of this design.

While, yes, it is better than that original iPhone 6,

I like the glass back,

and they've done a couple of minor tweaks,

but generally speaking, it lacks the specialness

of that original SE, which had

that awesome chamfered design, that really tiny size.

I was about to say it's not an outdated design,

but when you look at the front,

you look at the giant size of the bezels here,

it does look a little bit dated.

Well yes, it is time for me to set up Apple Pay and Siri

in the settings.

A lot of components have been lifted

straight off of the iPhone 8, including Touch ID,

which makes sense considering that it is much more

mask friendly than Face ID, and, of course,

the screen itself, while it is only a 4.7-inch display,

and yeah, it's low resolution, blah, blah, blah,

the thing is, this is still a very bright color

accurate IPS panel, and it has held up remarkably well

considering that it's, well, a few years old at this point,

but you know what doesn't feel like a five-year-old design?

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our iPhone SE video.

The most impressive part of the SE

is absolutely the Apple A13 inside.

Let me be super clear.

This is the most powerful phone you can buy, period.

I don't care what price point you're playing in.

So it is pretty much identical to what you get

on the iPhone 11 and the 11 Pro,

even though it is down to three gigs of RAM

compared to four, but trust me, you won't notice,

and when you put this thing side by side with a Pixel 3a,

it is not even close.

You also have Wi-Fi 6, as well as Bluetooth 5

from the bigger iPhones.

It has support for NFC, as well as Apple Pay.

The SE camera is a hybrid of the iPhone 8 lens

and sensor and the iPhone 11 processor.

What this means is it actually is a fairly decent step up,

and it does get really close to the iPhone 11.

When you look at a lot of these stills side by side,

the dynamic range especially is very impressive.

The only place that you really do notice a deficiency here

is in the sharpness of the image.

If you're looking at it on Instagram, you're totally fine,

but as soon as you start to pixel peep,

you notice that is a little bit on the softer side.

Somewhere else the SE falls a bit short

is in the Night Sight mode, or rather,

the lack of because while yes, the low light photos

are fine on the iPhone, they're much much better

on something like the Pixel 3a.

When you put it together as a whole though,

it is a solid package, and it does have portrait mode

for both the rear camera as well as the front.

Now, as with all of these things, it always misses

the side of my glasses, but beyond that,

it does do a respectable job.

Where, I think, the iPhone SE really shines is in video.

So this is 4K video, completely untouched,

straight off of the iPhone SE, and while yes,

it might not be quite as stable as something like

what you get on the iPhone 11, it's really impressive

to see this level of video quality on a phone

at this price, right?

I mean, generally speaking, iPhones have been

ahead of the game on video for a while,

and this really cements that even at a 399 budget.

While on paper, the 1,800 milliamp hour battery

isn't particularly impressive,

because of the efficient display, processor

and iOS, battery life actually isn't too bad on the SE.

Still not quite where I would like it.

It does feel a little bit of a generation behind,

but it is certainly enough to make it through a day.

So as someone who's been struggling with the decision

between iOS and Android,

there have been a lot of major advantages

that I've seen on both sides,

which makes it a very complicated decision

because at its very root, both Android and iOS

are very, very good these days.

So for example, with Android, one of the main advantages is,

of course, the customization not only

in the operating system, which, of course,

gives you a much deeper level of control,

but also, in the amount of hardware that you can pick up.

Now, yes, the iPhone line is probably the broadest

that it's ever been, between the SE on the low end,

you have the iPhone 11, the Pro, the Pro Max,

but even that pales in comparison

to the hundreds of legitimately very impressive

Android options out there.

If you want folding phones,

as I mentioned my previous video, if you care about 5G

and high refresh rate, all that stuff is available

on the Android side of the fence.

When it comes to app support, at least for me,

95% of the apps that I use on a daily basis

are available not only on Android and iOS,

but are very similar quality.

There aren't major differences.

Of course, what are phones these days beyond a camera,

and just a portal to whatever app you want to use.

Now, there are certainly some exceptions.

Instagram would be a good one,

which I do think is significantly better on iOS

and of course, there are some advantages

on the Android side of the camp.

For example, if you want to play some retro games

via an emulator, good luck trying to do that

on iPhone unless you want to do some weird side loading.

When you talk about the Apple ecosystem,

there is a negative connotation there,

and I will certainly admit, I have perpetuated that

with, I mean, even my last video.

Now, yes, it is very annoying

once you get into the Apple ecosystem,

and everyone has you on iMessage,

and your grandma calls you on FaceTime,

and you're charging with your Apple Card,

and you have your Apple Watch, and your AirPods,

and your Mac and your iPad.

I mean, there's so many things that make it very difficult

once you have that iPhone to get out,

but by that same token, there are some advantages,

of course, too, if you have a couple of Apple devices

in your life, right?

Having an iMessage pop up on your Mac is great,

or being able to take a call on your iPad or vice versa.

All this stuff is nice to see,

but you don't have to go all in.

One thing I will say though, if you are coming from Android,

all the Google apps work great on iOS

with almost no exceptions,

but if you're going from iPhone to Android,

well, you can listen to Apple Music,

and probably another app.

I can't think of one, though.

Something I will give Apple props for is the level of focus

they put on not only security, but also privacy in iOS.

Not only does Apple have an excellent track record

of continuously supporting devices,

something I'll talk about a little bit later,

but on top of that, they also put a lot of emphasis

on privacy, and we've done an entire video on this,

so you can definitely find out more

about my personal thoughts, but TL;DW,

I definitely think Apple does a better job

than pretty much anyone else in the industry

for protecting your personal privacy.

Yes, if you look at a poll of random people,

they might think that Google or Facebook

are more trustworthy, which I find

to be quite wrong, but generally speaking,

when you look at just how much they've invested in things

such as differential privacy,

and when you look at the general business model of Apple

makes money when they sell you a phone,

and Google makes money when they sell you an ad

using the data they acquire using their phones,

it kind of becomes fairly straightforward,

in my opinion that while we all spend a lot of time online,

but especially these days with all of us so invested