After a great waiting for Apple, finally IPhone 16E is announced yesterday. Looking at its position in the company, 16E is Headscratcher. My colleague Jan Carlos Campbell already wrote about how strange it is that it is strange that The phone is missingA function everywhere loved by Apple users. Nevertheless, the omission that is most released for me is that the iPhone 16e does not have more than one rear chamber, and no, the 2x telephone lens is not taken into account.
Of course, if you put 16E against his predecessor, 2022 iPhone seThis is not an amazing omission – but when you consider today's wider smartphone market, this is a clear weakness. In the amount of $ 599, 16e per 100 dollars more than Pixel 8aA device with two amazing rear cameras and a processor contributing to AI (more about this in a moment). 8A is also often sold due to just 399 dollars. Some people hate the comparison of pixels, so I will give you one more. Last spring nothing released $ 349 Phone 2AThe field like 8a, it has two rear cameras. Oh, and a fresh design that has not been borrowed since 2020. Almost 200 dollars are more than the phone that it replaces, 16e is not a middle class device.
I know what you think about: what is wrong with one camera if this camera is excellent? In the case of 16E, I think that the problem is that Apple will read the market incorrectly and what people want from their next phone. All consumer devices in some way are a compromise. They become more pronounced when you are moving around the market.
For most people, their phone is their main camera and how they document their life and memories. Think about what was the first thing you tested when you switched to your current phone. I fight about the laying, these were cameras. This context is more better, because they facilitate the capture of the moments that are important to you.
For the device, some sockets Describing as “low level”, iPhone 16E has a modern chip. This can be reduced by one of the less graphic processor, but the A18 16E is still 3NM with 8 GB of RAM to support the processor. Apple clearly felt that the A18 was necessary so that her set of AI worked at 16E. But this means that as a result, the rest of the phone was supposed to suffer, starting from the camera package.
I do not know about you, but if I were on the market for a new phone, I would like to surrender to my dollar most. The SE line had its own share of disadvantages, including outdated design and dull screen, but for $ 429 they made sense. Despite all its shortcomings, SE still felt like benefits in 2022, because you received a modern chip, access to iOS and all the wonderful applications that are delivered with it, and the excellent track record of Apple about software support. With the iPhone 16e you do not save almost the same amount of the price for a regular iPhone. Yes, everything that I said about the strengths of SE still refers to 16E, and it is even built on this phone with additions, such as the best battery and OLED screen, but the smartphone market has developed so much over the past three years.
Again, I know that people hate the comparison of pixels, but 8a makes much less compromises. Not only does it have a more universal system of cameras, but also comes with a high frequency of update. The Tensor G3 chip from 8A is also fully capable of performing the latest functions of Google artificial intelligence.
I know that it offers the best hardware functions at a price has never been an Apple approach, but this approach made sense only when the company had the best software experience. We can all agree with Apple Intelligence did not meet its usual quality standards. Just look at the notification resume, one of the main points of sales of Apple Intelligence. Apple Recently stopped All news and entertainment generated by a system for solving their low quality.
Right now, Apple Intelligence is not a convincing reason for buying a new iPhone, and its inclusion on 16e due to other functions, at best, at best, a cynical attempt to increase the number of acceptance. If 16e were $ 100 cheaper, maybe I would be less critical, but now it seems that Apple missed the mark.