Weekly poll results: the Apple iPhone 16e is way overpriced | Infinium-tech
Apple, as the sole manufacturer of iOS phones, is responsible for providing entry-level models. Apple, a company that sees itself as the manufacturer of premium products, has a difficult time to do so. And Apple iPhone 16E is actually a bad entry-level model.
Before we get its properties as a phone, however, we have to address the elephant in the room – its price. At $ 600/€ 700/£ 600/, 60,000, it is above the starting price of $ 400/$ 430 of the last two generations of the iPhone SE, even if it is double the storage (it is still 128GB, not a large amount).
For 39% of voters in last week survey, the price 16E makes 16E a full non-starter. And this percentage is that if we do not exclude those who are not just interested in any iPhone – without them, “it’s very expensive” will score even more.
Apple iPhone 16E
But if you want an iPhone, it seems the preferred option to go for Vanilla iPhone 15 or 16. Some comments mention that the iPhone 17 will eventually offer a vanilla iPhone and 120Hz refresh rate on AOD. This is the hope for this generation. It should also be noted that once the 17 series arrives, the iPhone 16 should fall to $ 700, taking the place where the iPhone 15 sits today. There is not much between them, but 16 apple supports intelligence (if you care about it), fast magsef and better battery life (15: 42h active use score vs. 13: 20h).
In the comments, people were mourning the loss of iPhone mini-once, one time, a belief that the fourth iPhone se would be based on mini instead of adopting a design like an iPhone 14. Even the third SE was smaller and lighter than the iPhone 16E, except that it has now gone, the fans of small iPhones have left to go anywhere. It was a problem for only a minority (more than 2% vote), but still.
For the phone itself, selling a device with 60Hz displays and a single camera in 2025 is an IFFY proposal at any cost – on $ 600 it is just misleading. Now if that price falls, then 16E can be worth another form. For now, however, it seems that most people will leave it in favor of other equipment.
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