On the one hand, Apple’s newest iPhone is a large victory. The iPhone 16E comes with most of what you’d need from a smartphone — fashionable processor, good digicam, good design — for lots of of {dollars} lower than you’d sometimes spend on a brand-new machine. On the opposite hand, it’s a bit odd that this factor exists in any respect. It’s lacking a few the most effective issues in regards to the iPhone ecosystem — MagSafe, a number of cameras — and if you happen to’re already spending $600 on a telephone it’s not clear that one other $200 is a very large deal. So why does the 16E exist? And who’s it for?
On this episode of The Vergecast, we try to determine it out. With Nilay on trip, David is joined by The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes and Allison Johnson to undergo all of the ins and outs of Apple’s newest smartphone. We speak in regards to the trades Apple made to convey the value down, those it possibly ought to have made as an alternative, and simply how large a deal the brand new C1 modem may become.
If you wish to know extra about the whole lot we talk about on this episode, listed below are some hyperlinks to get you began, first on the iPhone 16E:
And in different gadget information:
And within the lightning spherical:
