iPhone SE Review: Apple's Outdated Innovation
Apple’s iPhone SE has been on sale for just over four weeks now… or is it four years? The lineage of this device reaches back to the September 2012 launch of the iPhone 5. Then the design represented the future, with the new lightning connector debuting on the 5 and both the TouchID sensor and 64-bit computing appearing on the iPhone 5S. In that sense the iPhone SE is simply the next step in a long production line of handsets, with the 2016 model taking everything that worked before and updating the processor, camera, and memory. I’d argue that this is new ground for Apple. Rather than redefine what it means to be a smartphone every two years (with the mid-term course correction of the ‘S’ handsets), the iPhone SE is an iterative approach to handset design from Cupertino. The existing handsets were working well before, so just give them a little nudge in specifications and keep selling the handset. Apple iPhone SE (image: Ewan Spence) By virtue of the new name – SE – the h