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Apple smartphones are either bad or good. This applies to almost all models: the exception is the iPhone SE 2022, about which you can’t say anything bad, but there’s also little good either. It is just normal and does not cause any emotions. Cupertino neglect budget models, but this does not mean that everyone does it: just look at Google’s Pixel 6a! The smartphone has not only the flagship Tensor chip, but also the appearance of the flagship. We’ll tell you why instead of a cheap iPhone , it’s better to buy an Android topper for the same money.
How to replace the iPhone SE 2022
Google decided not to waste time on trifles and released a budget Pixel in exactly the same design as the top models. Not everyone will be able to distinguish the “firmware” from 6a in appearance! And this is great, because we have been waiting for the iPhone SE without the Home button from Apple for more than a year. Something tells me that the iPhone 13 mini , which Apple is about to close , will “pop up” in a year or two, but under a different name and, accordingly, at a more affordable price.
No doubt the next iPhone SE will be a clean copy of the iPhone 13 mini
Judge for yourself: the company can’t just jump from a 4.7-inch iPhone to 6.1, so 5.4 from a compact smartphone is what you need. Yes, and spare parts are probably a dime a dozen in warehouses: the demand for the iPhone 13 mini was very modest, so I dare to assume that the next SE will be the mini’s twin brother. However, you have to live for today, so instead of the iPhone SE with a tiny screen, get a budget phone from Google if you can find it on sale!
Smartphone with good features
Apple and Google have gone to some tricks so that the price of a smartphone does not fly into space. Apple got more greedy, with the Pixel 6a giving it a 6.1-inch screen with a 60Hz refresh rate, which is a lot better than the 4.7-inch. And it’s quite possible to live without 60 Hz: most gadgets still have such an indicator, so 90 and 120 Hz still seem like a curiosity.
In addition, Google saved on what users do not particularly need – on wireless charging. Yes, it is simply not in the Pixel 6a, which makes the smartphone not so expensive. The iPhone SE has it, but why? Is it possible to overheat the smartphone and kill its battery?
Pixel 6a benchmarks are fine. Should I take it?
By the way, usually the performance of low-cost Android smartphones is a pain. But Google Pixel 6a has no problems with this: in benchmarks, the smartphone is second only to the iPhone SE 2022 in this price category. Another plus in the piggy bank of a smartphone from Google.
Inexpensive smartphone with a good camera
Both smartphones have pretty good cameras, but in Pixel 6a it is still better: agree, two modules of 12 megapixels are still better than one. And Apple is point blank not wanting to add a night mode to the iPhone SE . There is no explanation for this, except that the company so wants to protect a cheap model from expensive iPhones. And this is very bad: now even cheap Android smartphones have this feature, thanks to which pictures in poor lighting are more or less normal.
The camera is not top, but there is a night mode. And in general, the module is double!
At the same time, they do not even have a top-end Snapdragon and work on some kind of MediaTek. Whether business – Pixel 6a. It has a night mode , although the camera in the smartphone is far from the first freshness. Therefore, chickens laugh at the assertion that the iPhone SE 2022 is an affordable camera phone . In any case, it definitely has everything you need.
How much storage does an iPhone need
Another disadvantage of the iPhone SE is the amount of memory. Apple made a cool gift by releasing the iPhone 13 with a minimum amount of memory of 128 GB at the same price, but this did not affect budget smartphones. 64 GB is critically small for a basic version of a smartphone in 2022. Even if you do not store videos and play on your smartphone, you will still have the lion’s share of the storage occupied by the application cache and music.
64 GB of memory fly away unnoticed
In my iPhone SE, 64 GB ran out after a year, although I don’t often take pictures or download new programs, and immediately transfer all the videos to the cloud. For the same money, the Pixel 6a offers 128GB by default, which is the sweet spot these days. On one hand, this is not so much, on the other hand, for the minimum salary, it’s even nothing.
Apple clearly has a lot to learn from Google when it comes to making low-cost phones, from the fact that cheap smartphones need to remove unnecessary features and ending with the fact that state employees deserve more advanced cameras.
