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The iphone 16e of $ 599 are many things, but you do not dare to call it an economic phone. I doubt even to call it “cheap.” As the successor of the iPhone, it is $ 429, it is difficult not to see the 16E as a disappointment. Of course, there are $ 200 less than Vanilla's iPhone 16 (which I argued that it was a great offer in the launch), and the 16E also includes the last A18 chip with support for Apple Intelligence. But it is no longer a small phone, and pushes Apple's cheapest iPhone option far beyond $ 500. That is something that we will probably never see again. (And they are also potentially terrible news for future iPhone prices).
Given the large amount of new hardware on the 16E iPhone, including a larger 6.1 -inch OLED screen, the first inmate “C1” Apple's internal and that chip A18 mentioned above, it is easy to put excuses for the price. The 16E is certainly much closer in specifications to the iPhone 16 than the third generation for the iPhone 13. But I would say that Apple did not need exactly an OLED screen for this model, and it is likely that there are other ways to reduce costs. (It is even strange that Apple keeps the magsafe and fast wireless load outside, which would have been cheaper to implement, and possibly more useful, than a large OLED screen).
And although it is good to have the A18 chip (although with a less GPU nucleus) and complete support of Apple Intelligence, I agree with my colleague Igor Bonifacic that users do not cry out exactly those characteristics of ai. However, if we had to blame a guilty of the prices of iPhone 16E, it is likely to be Apple's intelligence. After all, Apple is still fighting to show that it is not far from Microsoft, Google and OpenAi. In any other year, Apple could have justified to throw an older chip in the 16E, but that is not possible when in the middle of a ai bomb war.
Above all, I am sad that Apple increases once again the price of the entrance to its walled garden without much justification. There is something special, noble, even about smartphones of less than $ 500. They are a reminder of an era of smartphones, when prices were being reduced by phones such as the Moto G. These days you have Android phones like the Android phones such as the Pixel 8A (and potentially the next Pixel 9A), as well as the Samsung Galaxy A35 of $ 400 and $ 499 Galaxy A55.
Now that an iPhone's dream of less than $ 500 is fine and truly dead, it seems that Apple is preparing the stage for future price jumps. An iPhone 17E of $ 600 or $ 650 will certainly be seen as an agreement compared to an iPhone 17 of $ 850 or $ 900. And only wait for the inevitable folding of $ 2,000 for iPhone, which could be specified more than $ 3,000.
Of course, he could be an intelligent Apple buyer and opt for used or restored iPhones. Recently I collected an iPhone 14 reconditioned as a Gift of Mother's Day early for $ 420, and amazon currently has listings for <a target="_blank" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&siteId=us-engadget&pageId=1p-autolink&contentUuid=9da3fe04-0c74-4a53-9219-356b9d8a63af&featureId=text-link&merchantName=amazon&custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLWlQaG9uZS0xMjhHQi1EZWVwLVB1cnBsZS9kcC9CMEJOOTJYNlhLL3JlZj1zcl8xXzI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiOWRhM2ZlMDQtMGM3NC00YTUzLTkyMTktMzU2YjlkOGE2M2FmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLWlQaG9uZS0xMjhHQi1EZWVwLVB1cnBsZS9kcC9CMEJOOTJYNlhLL3JlZj1zcl8xXzIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&signature=AQAAAWCoLVGmeCv2EjvJL35OHmKGsHwK_QZxPdiAH3DI9iVh&gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FApple-iPhone-128GB-Deep-Purple%2Fdp%2FB0BN92X6XK%2Fref%3Dsr_1_2″ class=”rapid-with-clickid”>Iphone 14 pros just below $ 500. These devices will not admit Apple's intelligence, but I would say that continuing with the market used is simply a more useful form of intelligence.
This article originally appeared in Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/a-599-iphone-16e-is-is-a-cruel-Joke-200507275.html?src
