{"id":18480,"date":"2020-05-06T01:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/iphone-se-2020-is-proof-that-apple-wont-actually-bring-back-the-tiny-phone.html"},"modified":"2020-05-06T01:02:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:02:58","slug":"iphone-se-2020-is-proof-that-apple-wont-actually-bring-back-the-tiny-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/iphone-se-2020-is-proof-that-apple-wont-actually-bring-back-the-tiny-phone.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhone SE 2020 is proof that Apple won’t actually bring back the tiny phone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After more than four years, Apple announced its new\u00a0iPhone SE<\/span>\u00a0in April, and I imagine small-phone fans collectively jumped for joy upon hearing the news. The iPhone SE, which looks like an iPhone 8<\/span>\u00a0but features the iPhone 11<\/span>‘s powerful A13 chipset<\/span>, also has a 4.7-inch display.<\/p>\n

Apple claims that it’s a “small”<\/a> phone. And it is <\/em>the smallest (and cheapest) iPhone currently available in Apple’s lineup. It’s also relatively compact by today’s phone standards, and when compared to, say, the popular Galaxy S20<\/span>, which has a 6.2-inch screen. But at 4.7 inches, the 2020 iPhone SE is roughly 20% larger than the original iPhone SE, which had just a 4-inch screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you were holding out for something truly tiny, the iPhone SE 2020 doesn’t deliver on that front. Apple’s decision to not build a brand-new 4-inch phone is telling. It signals that the company will probably never bring back the tiny iPhone<\/span>, no matter how badly people crave it.<\/p>\n

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Personally, I’m all for it. Because we’re in 2020 and I want a big phone. And because large screens simply deliver a better, more immersive user experience. For me, “portability” takes a backseat compared to those benefits. From making credit card payments and joining Zoom calls<\/span>\u00a0to following a banana bread<\/span> recipe on YouTube, I spend more time than ever in front of my phone, for better or worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And if I’m using my phone for hours on end, I want to enjoy using it. Or at the very least, I don’t want to have to struggle viewing my screen while carrying out more unpleasant tasks (like paying a credit card bill, for instance). Big phones can do that for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But my perception of what is large and what is small in terms of phones has evolved over the years. I wasn’t always such a fan of large screens, nor do I subscribe to the “bigger is better” axiom. In fact, I used to adore my 4.7-inch iPhone 8, which I clung onto for years. But when I upgraded to the\u00a0iPhone X<\/span> in 2018, it’s been almost punishing to go back to anything smaller.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Whenever I do use my iPhone 8,<\/span> it feels as though I’ve been transported back in time, and not in a good way, as I can feel my eyes strain when I attempt to navigate its interface, which now looks disturbingly cluttered to me. Reading news and watching videos on the iPhone 8 had become an unpleasant experience compared to the iPhone X. Either way, I do believe there is an upper limit to how supersized these phones should grow.<\/p>\n

Phone-makers have been serving up increasingly larger handsets as the years go by. They know that screen size is one of the most important draws of a phone. But the jumbo phone trend really <\/em>began back in 2011 with the first Galaxy Note<\/span>. Samsung took a gamble and launched the 5.3-inch Note, which seemed enormous back then, or as one analyst put it, like a “dork flag<\/span>.” The Note ushered in big-phone mania, and is one of the reasons Apple eventually churned out my beloved 5.8-inch iPhone X in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, phones are even larger. Just take a look at the 2020 phone season so far: Within the Galaxy S20 family of phones, the S20 Ultra<\/span> has a massive 6.9-inch screen. Oppo launched its super premium 6.7-inch Find X2 Pro<\/span>, and Motorola unveiled the 6.7-inch Edge Plus<\/span> in April, its first true flagship in years. Plus there are rumors percolating that Apple will release an iPhone 12 Pro Max<\/span>\u00a0that could also go as large as 6.7 inches. Sorry small-phone fans, it’s clear the big phone trend is here to stay.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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