iPhone SE Reviews: Flagship Performance, Best Budget Smartphone

Reviews of the iPhone SE 2020 have now been published by leading technology news outlets and tech YouTubers, with critics, giving the budget iPhone positive reviews, touting its flagship performance, has everything you need, and believes that this is the best budget smartphone in 2020.

TechCrunch says it is a super value for the price:

Simply, it’s a super value for the price, just smashing really. And a damn good phone. Alas, I am too used to no home button for it to be really appealing to me, but this is going to be a great phone for millions of people. And talk about timing on the value side of things — $399 for an iPhone with Apple’s latest power plant on board is huge.

The Verge believes that iPhone SE gets you nearly everything that a $1,000 smartphone has to offer, other than the low light photography

Is all of that worth the cost? Sure, for a lot of people. Is any of it necessary? Other than low-light photography, there’s virtually nothing that I do on those $1,000 phones that I can’t do equally well on the iPhone SE. It is fast, capable, reliable, and familiar. I’d miss those advanced features and more expansive displays, but not as much as you might think.

CNBC noted the "iPhone SE is, by far, the best bet for people who are on a budget and need a new phone right now," and it seems that Engadget side with them, saying that "it's the best budget smartphone out there” and that it “isn’t just a good deal — it’s a big deal.”

Well-known tech YouTuber MKBHD says “it delivered one of the best value phones of the year and in a long time.” He also thinks it “might be the most important thing Apple’s made this year.” Another tech YouTuber UrAvgConsumer tested on how long the iPhone SE battery would last on an average day, well, the result is that there is 1% of the battery left with 4 hours and 26 minutes of screen on usage.