Re-Boxing my iPhone SE
After the iPhone 12 announcement, I made a video about which iPhone 12 I’d buy, and decided I had too many iPhones and needed to give one away: my 128 GB (PRODUCT)RED iPhone SE (2020). (That giveaway is long over; this is a record of the video.) I couldn’t find the box, then did, so this is a proper “re-boxing.”
Why the SE is still great
I know the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro are the big thing and nobody cares about older stuff, but this is a fantastic little device, especially if you like smaller phones. It’s essentially an iPhone 11 inside an iPhone 8 body. It might look a little outdated next to the newest models, but what you don’t pay for in new designs and OLED screens is a very good phone that will last four or five years.
- It has a home button and not Face ID, and it has bezels, but it still has a really good screen: an LCD, but a great one because Apple made it, bright enough for most uses with good color balance and True Tone.
- Like the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro (as of the 2019 chip), you get Apple’s A13, no slouch: it will run circles around any comparably priced device, including $1,000-plus Android phones.
- A great camera, with the image signal processing of the A13, which Apple calls its best single-camera system ever.
What’s in the re-box
A new Lightning cable (USB-A to Lightning); new unused Lightning AirPods (no 3.5 mm headphones, since Apple doesn’t do that anymore, and the phone has no headphone jack); a USB-A 5 W power brick, which is more than you get with the iPhone 12 or 12 Pro; and the (PRODUCT)RED iPhone SE. In my opinion, it’s the right red: not the off-color red of the iPhone 12 or 11. The SE and XR have been the best (PRODUCT)RED colors. I’d reset the phone so it was ready to set up, unlocked for any carrier, and wiped it with rubbing alcohol (in the era of COVID), though I couldn’t get the plastic wrap back on like the factory (“bubbles everywhere”). The documentation, (PRODUCT)RED sheet and stickers are still there.
Bonus items: the Spigen Neo Hybrid case from my original unboxing, and a Moment case for the iPhone SE (to attach Moment lenses and filters for video content), plus an AmFilm screen protector (I’m an iCarez matte fan, but I couldn’t find one).
If you want to see what I did with the iPhone 12, see my review and unboxing videos.
Links
- Enter the Giveaway with this link
- iPhone SE Product Red
- Spigen Neo Hybrid Case for SE
- Apple Silicon Case iPhone SE
- Moment Case for iPhone SE
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- • iPhone 11 Pro 1 year later
- • Which iPhone 12 will I buy?
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