Apple iPhone Official SE, price, features and release date

Apple announces its new entry-level smartphone, the cheapest in the line-up but certainly not cheap in absolute way. Confirming rumors of recent weeks, the device is called the iPhone SE and adopts a very similar design to that of the model it replaces in the lineup, the iPhone 5S. The display is 4 inches, the Apple of stainless steel as the latest product of the company. Under the body are the same Apple A9 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. "He 'iPhone 4-inch more powerful than ever," said the apple during the presentation.

Along with Apple A9 we will find of course also the co-processor of motion always-on Apple M9, which also enables the Siri activation through the sole use of the voice. You will not need to press and hold the Home button, but it will be enough to say the words "Hey, Siri" to get access to the server of iOS voice. The CPU performance will be, according to the company, the same as those of the range, and most recent top then about twice compared to those of iPhone 5S.
The photographic industry would seem the one implemented on the iPhone 6S, with the new 12-megapixel iSight sensor with Focus Pixels, Live Photo, True Tone dual LED flash, a new image processor and support for the Panorama mode that churns out shots from a total of 63 megapixels. Thanks to the performance of the new hardware and the exploitation of the 12-megapixel sensor, the main camera of the iPhone SE will be able to record video at 4K resolution.

Compared to the iPhone 5S, the new model incorporates a 4G LTE modem faster (Cat. 4) and support for Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth (4.2) top performing and efficient. According to the words of Apple iPhone SE it boasts huge improvements on the operational autonomy of the face, a statement which will of course verified with tests on more in-depth field. As usual, the company has not released many details on the technical level, with the argument that will be deepened in the coming weeks.

As we said above, those expecting an economic smartphone will undoubtedly disappointed. Apple announced the iPhone SE price for the US market: $ 399 for the 16 GB variant of integrated storage, $ 499 for the 64GB. Availability expected on American soil for March 31, with preorder that will already be active from Thursday 24 March. For some time he came back up the official website, and we got to check prices in Italy.

In the beautiful country we will be able to order iPhone SE from 29th March at a price ranging from 509 € for the 16GB version (still less than the iPhone 5S, which was proposed to 529 € on the official store), to arrive at well 609 euro for the storage version of the top 64 GB. The delivery of the first units is scheduled for April.

Apple iPhone SE specifications
OS iOS 9.3
IPS LCD display 4 "
1136x640 resolution (326ppi)
Apple A9 processor @ 1,84GHz + M9
RAM 2 GB
Storage 16/64 GB
Cameras 12 MP - 1.2 MP
Connectivity LTE Cat. 4, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.2, Touch ID, Apple Pay
Battery 1642 mAh
Dimensions 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm
Weight 113 g
Apple announced the new device as the completion of the line-up of iPhone stronger than ever. The range with the bitten apple behind it then consists of three smartphones with Apple A9 processor (iPhone SE, 6S and 6S Plus) and two with Apple A8 (iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus). Today is cut off iPhone 5S, but it is very likely that the smartphone can be found in the next few months in stores unofficial at very, very eye-catching.

Update: we have changed the amount of RAM in the table, which is not 1GB as reported recently but 2GB, like on the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus.