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After what feels like years of speculation, Apple has finally announced the newest lower-cost iPhone the iPhone 16e.

I say lower cost with a very big caveat, though.

iPhone 16e front and back

But theres more to Apple than selling hardware.

All Apple has to do is verify people keep buying iPhones and making purchases with it.

You also don’t get a Dynamic Island for live updates at the top of your display.

iPhone SE 2022 in hand at beach Midnight color

Everything else the iPhone 16 has to offer, so does the iPhone 16e.

Even Apple Intelligence, which has some pretty stringent hardware requirements, is available in full on iPhone 16e.

You needed a more expensiveiPhone 15 Proat the very least.

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Theres a lot of great tech in this phone, and good tech costs money.

Bottom Line

The iPhone 16e looks like a good phone.

The iPhone 16e should be the equivalent of theSamsung Galaxy A55rather than the Galaxy S24 FE.

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Apple iPhone 16e Black 128GB

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