iPhone SE (2021) vs iPhone XR - Which Should You Choose?
Saturday, March 20, 2021
iPhone SE (2021) vs iPhone XR - Which Should You Choose?
IPhone XR offers:
Your lightning port nowboth support wireless charging that means they have glass front and back andthey both have singular cameras which we'll talk about in a little bit now thesize difference between both of these is going to be may be the deciding factorfor a lot of people so the iPhone se is a very small phone it fits in your handvery well especially if you have small hands as you can see I don't but the iPhone XR offers a little bit bigger display a little bit bigger feel it's alittle bit thicker as far as its overall size and it's just a larger phone ingeneral now if you've ever seen an iPhone 6 all the way to an iPhone 8that's the exact same size as this phone for the most part the iPhone se theiPhone XR and the iPhone 11 are the same size they're in between the iPhone8 and the iPhone 11 Pro Max so it's sort of an in-between size with the XR anda lot of people really like this size the iPhone 11 pro max or XS Max wasjust too big so the iPhone se is really for those that appreciate a smallerphone they also both have ip67 certification so that makes them waterand dust resistant up to 1 meter for 30 minutes that does not mean they arewaterproof and Apple will not cover damage if it's caused by water so if youwant to take this swimming or in the shower you really should be putting itin a fully waterproof case where Apple will actually guarantee that they willnot guarantee replacement of water damage even with Apple care you'll stillhave to pay a bit to replace the phone now the displays on both phones arefairly similar in that their LCD displays and they have a lot ofsimilarities as far as their overall construction now obviously there is asize difference so if with the iPhone XR we have a 6.1 inch liquid Retinadisplay its 1792 by 828 with 326 pixels per inch the iPhone se also has 326pixels per inch but is 1334 by 750 at 4.7 inches across and you can see itssquared off whereas the iPhone XR has the rounded cornersand face ID both of them have haptic touch there is no 3d touch on eitherphone so if you long press on the displays you'll get the same sort ofthing on both devices you don't have 3d touch anymore it's all just done bypress and hold they also have similar brightnesses at 625 nits so if I turnthe phones all the way up you won't be able to tell on the camera but they havethe exact same brightness level on both of them both displays look really gooddespite what some people say the actual pixel density is high enough that youcan't see the pixels and they have good viewing angles as well they go nice andbright indoors and outdoors and you shouldn't have any issues seeing them atall so they both look really good they have great viewing angles and you can'tsee the pixels the only difference is with the higher-end iPhones that haveOLED displays those have deeper blacks but overall these are the best LCDdisplays on the market in my opinion now both phones even though.
Both support 1080p:
They are nottechnically as high as 1080p as far as their resolution is concerned we'll both support 1080p YouTube videos so what happens is the phones actually willscale that resolution to fit the display so where the iPhone se is closer to 720pthe iPhone XR is in between 720 and 1080 P so you'll see we have the optionfor 1080p on either display and it will look just fine on a smaller display theresolutions are less important than if you're on a huge television in yourliving room so 720p is is just fine on this display you can't see the pixelsand in fact iPad pro and all the iPads have lower pixel densities and thesedisplays actually look a little bit nicer when they're held up close nowboth phones have stereo speakers and they go about equally loud so you have aspeaker up at the top and then you also have one on the bottom and both of thesespeakers like I said are basically identical you've got wide sound stereosound and they're great for watching videos now the iPhone XR has face IDwhere the iPhone se has touch ID it's basically an iPhone 8 with aniPhone 11 internals but you do have the second gen touch ID where it's nice andfast to unlock it's very easy to do and on the iPhone XR you just raise it andswipe up as you're raising the phone and it unlocks both are about thesame speed some people are going to prefer touch ID some people are going toprefer face ID but you have the option of either or and they both work well soit just really comes down to whatever you choose to use now internally both ofthem have very fast processors the iPhone XR has the a 12 Bionic CPUwhereas the iPhone se has the newer a 13 Bionic but they both have threegigabytes of RAM and they're surprisingly close as far as theirspeeds that a 13 has a newer knurl engine should so that should help itwith cameras and photos and things like that and video as well and we'll take alook at that in a moment but as far as the overall speed it should be basicallythe same so if you were to open apps we'll take a closer look at the speed alittle bit later but just things like opening music are going to be basicallythe same scrolling should be the same doing intensive tasks will be the sameit really comes down to when you're doing things with the camera whereyou'll see some of the difference now both have front-facing cameras at 7megapixels they both have F 2.2 apertures and both can record in 1080pat 30 frames per second however with the iPhone XR because you have face ID youalso have a true depth sensor but you can do portrait mode on either so if wego into the camera here flip the camera aroundwe do have portrait mode on both of them it took a second on both of them butyou'll see they're both responding the same let me snap a picture here and andyou can see both of the pictures are basically going to look the same now asfar as the rear facing cameras you do have a little bit of a difference therein that.
The iPhone se actually carries:
The iPhone se actually carries over the sensor from the iPhone 8 butadds the a 13 bionics processing to help make the pictures a little bit betterwhereas the iPhone XR has a very similar camera as well we both have 12megapixel sensors with F 1.8 apertures and both can record at 4k 60 however oneof the interesting things is let's spin the cameras around here one of theinteresting things is we can't change the actual frame rate in real time onthe iPhone XR just by tapping on the upper right hand side corner so you'llsee it's stuck at 4k 35 do the same thing on the iPhone seyou'll see that it's actually able to change between all the different framerates so that's kind of interesting there's no reason the iPhone XRcouldn't do it they just didn't add it so that's kind of strange but it'ssomething you'll have to deal with now I wanted to show you some samples not onlyof the video but also of photos taken with the rear facing cameras so take alook at some of these I'm recording video with both the iPhone XR and theiPhone se and so now you can hear the microphone of the iPhone se and see whatit sounds like as compared to the microphone on the iPhone data are bothof them look pretty good to me but let me know what you think about them in thecomments below now the cameras are great for takingportraits of people and things like that but they won't do object portrait modeso you'll see both of them say no person detectives so they're very equal in thatright now the forward-facing camera on the iPhone XR because it has thetrue depth sensor you can do things like momochi so if we're in messages hereyou'll see we have the option for an emoji and momochi and so maybe I want topick the mouse here you'll see you'll bring it up full screen you'll see itwill face track and do an emoji and Memoji and things like that so if youwant to use it it's in the XR it is not in the iPhone se no battery life on bothphones is quite a bit different with the iPhone se because it's fairly small wehave a 1821 milliamp hour battery that's going to get you about four to fivehours of regular use but with the iPhone XR it has a 2942 milliamp hour batterywhere some people are getting up to seven hours of screen on time so it justdepends on what you're doing with your phone how you're using it expect tocharge it a little bit more but both will support fast charging if you havethe fast charging adapter and both support wireless charging you can setyour phone on a wireless charger and it will charge no problem both of themsupport wireless charging so you have that built in for both so it can becharged however you'd like it works great either way but with the iPhone sebecause the batteries smaller expected to charge a little bit faster also nowinternally because we have the a13 in the iPhone SE and the a12 in the iPhoneXR there are some different wireless standards so for example with the iPhoneXR it supports Wi-Fi a b/g/n and AC along with bluetooth 5.0 but with theiPhone se it supports Wi-Fi ABG and a CA x which is Wi-Fi 6 and then bluetooth5.0 so you do get Wi-Fi 6 in the new iPhone se so that really shouldn't helpyou determine which one to get but you do get the advantage of a little bitfaster speeds if you have a Wi-Fi 6 router at home or you're out about usingit now speed between both of them should be fairly similar even though they havea little bit of a difference.
The Geekbench scores:
When it comes to the CPU so if you're just doing something sim like browsing the internet you're on awebpage you're going to see the same sort of scrolling speeds the same sortof experience maybe you want to load the page on iPhone se you'll see sometimesit's going to vary depending on what you're doing but overall they're goingto be basically the same depending on how you're using them now there's acouple of other ways to show you this one way is to actually show you theGeekbench scores or the benchmarks of what the actual CPU can perform at whenit's given a specific task so let's take a look at the Geekbench scores and so ifwe run the CPU Geekbench scores we'll hit run benchmark and we'll let them runand I'll show you the difference between the two of them when it comes to thesescores now the benchmarks have completed and you can see on the iPhone XR wehave 1117 whereas on the iPhone se for single core score we have 1319 now for amulti-core we have a little bit faster on the iPhone se as well at 2565 verse2443 now this should give you a general idea of what the CPU is actually capableof and then also the compute score shows you graphic capability so we'll run thebenchmark on both of these and see what this says as well now in the graphicsdepartment the iPhone se is quite a bit faster as well so we have 6337 first theiPhone XR 4000 486 so this just gives you a general idea of what the CPUcan do when you push specific tasks at it now let's take a look at what it cando as far as opening a game you shouldn't really see much of adifference between these so let's go into minecraft here let's see if I canfind it here there we go we'll open minecraft and so let's turn these so wecan see it a little bit better we'll hit continue we'll hit play createa new world and let's hit create and then we'll hitproceed now this isn't necessarily representative of overall horsepower ofthe processor but it gives you an idea of what it's like when you're loading avideogame and you should see the frame rates basically the same both our 6 DPdisplays so you really shouldn't expect more than thatso in general they're going to be equally smooth between both of them nowone final way I like to show what it can do is export a 4k video since computersneed a lot of power to do the same thing in iOS or iPhones and iPads in generalare very good at this so let's go into iMovie we'll close out minecraft just tobe fair in fact let's close everything let's go over to iMovie here we'll gointo it on this phone and on this one and what you'll see is this is the exactsame video on both so you can shrink the timeline or make it a little bit biggerlet's shrink it here to make it even and what you'll see is it's the exact samevideo on both if I scroll all the way to the end it's a three minute and 45seconds so what I'm going to do is export this in 4k and see what it takesas far as its time to do so so let's go ahead and slide these over we'll bringin a different I phone as a stopwatch here and let's see what we can do sowe'll hit done on both of them then we'll hit share then we want to save thevideo and then we're going to select 4k so I'll hit 4k and then start and let'ssee what they do as far as export times now I'll speed this up.
Impressive as far as speed:
So you don't haveto watch the whole thing now that's incredibly fast for both ofthese they're very similar as far as export times and to export in twominutes and 26 seconds is faster than many MacBooks that I've seen so ingeneral that's very impressive now both phones are quite impressive as far as speed and they keep up well with the latest iPhone 11 Pro 11 Pro Max andso you really shouldn't have an issue there and I think the determination ofwhich one you should buy comes down to a couple different things the first onebeing price 399 for an iPhone se is pretty hard to beat and then just alittle bit more if you want some more storage but the iPhone XR can be hadpretty reasonably as well depending on if you get it new refurbished with adeal at your carrier or things like that so size of course is the otherdetermination so not only price but size personally I pick the iPhone XR andthat is because of its size my hands are larger I liked a little bit biggerscreen and face ID is something I've gotten used to but if you're someonethat really likes touch ID then the iPhone se is for you unless of coursethe phone is too small so you'll still have the iPhone 8 plus that you couldpick up refurbished or maybe we'll have an iPhone se plus later this year butright now I think the iPhone for me is the XRbut depending on size and budget is really what helps you determine whichone to pick they're both equally fast they both take great video and photosand I think either one is the right choice depending on what works best foryou but let me know which ones the one. You would pick and why in the commentsbelow if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course I'll link it in theHERE