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I cant remember the last time I saw another smartphone with such a dated design as the current iPhone.
Even thebest phones under $300have fullscreen edge-to-edge displays now.
Of course, that pointmay be up for debate, which is where my concern meter starts to rise.
Standard and Plus model iPhones didnt get 8GB of RAM until four months ago.
The rumors do make note of some compromises, though.
Cheaper phones can still be good but how good?
Its been a long time since cheap has meant bad in the context of phones.
(That’s more the case on the Pixel 8a, which mirrors thePixel 8.)
But theres always a limit to what those phones can offer.
Maybe sacrifices are made in the quality of construction,or the materials used.
Maybe you lose a camera lens, as is the case with the current iPhone.
And at that point, the aim of offering a cheaper phone seems like a wasted endeavor.
And I worry that the iPhone SE 4 could be heading down the same path.
Thats where the iPhone SE series comes in.
Then there’s theApple Watch, exclusiveAirPodsfeatures and so on.
Who knows, SE owners may even switch to a more expensive model when its time to upgrade.
Bottom line
There are a lot of things Im glad the iPhone SE 4 might be doing.
And if that happens, it would be the wrong move.
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