Apple iPhone SE: Price, features and release date

During these last moments, the Cupertino giant has officially announced iPhone SE, a new version of its flagship smartphone, characterized by a data sheet that is positioned a notch below that of the iPhone 6S with a logically lower price.

Apple announces its new entry-level smartphone, the cheapest in the line-up but certainly not cheap in the absolute way. Confirming rumors of recent weeks, the device is called the iPhone SE and adopts a very similar design to that of the model it replaces in the lineup, the iPhone 5S. The display is 4 inches, the Apple of stainless steel as the latest product of the company. Under the body are the same Apple A9 of iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. ” It’s 4-inch iPhone more powerful than ever, ” said the apple during the presentation.

Along with Apple A9 will find the course also the co-movement processor always-on Apple M9, which also enables the Siri activation through the sole use of the voice. You will not need to press and hold the Home button, but it will be enough to say the words ” Hey, Siri ” to get access to the server of iOS voice. The CPU performance will be, according to the company, the same as those of the range, and most-recent top then about twice compared to those of iPhone 5S.

The photographic industry would seem the one implemented on the iPhone 6S, with the new 12-megapixel iSight sensor with Focus Pixels, Live Photo, True Tone dual LED flash, a new image processor and support for the Panorama mode that churns out shots from a total of 63 megapixels. Thanks to the performance of the new hardware and the exploitation of the 12-megapixel sensor, the main camera of the iPhone SE will be able to record video at 4K resolution.

Compared to the iPhone 5S, the new model incorporates a 4G LTE modem faster (Cat. 4) and support for Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth (4.2) top performing and efficient. According to the words of Apple iPhone SE it boasts huge improvements on the operational autonomy of the face, a statement which will of course be verified with tests on a more in-depth field. As usual, the company has not released many details on the technical level, with the argument that will be deepened in the coming weeks.

As we said above, those expecting an economic smartphone will undoubtedly be disappointed. Apple announced the iPhone SE price for the US market: $399 for the 16 GB variant of integrated storage, $499 for the 64 GB. Availability expected on American soil for March 31, with preorder that will already be active from Thursday 24 March.

Apple iPhone SE – Specifications

Apple announced the new device as the completion of the line-up of iPhone stronger than ever. The range with the bitten apple behind it then consists of three smartphones with Apple A9 processor (iPhone SE, 6S and 6S Plus) and two with Apple A8 (iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus).

Today is cut off iPhone 5S, but it is very likely that the smartphone can be found in the next few months in stores unofficial at very, very eye-catching.