
Sure, the new SE is smaller than the rest of Apple’s current lineup and is smaller than basically any Android phone you can buy now. It has a 4.7-inch display compared to the original’s four-inch screen and the entire phone is almost 30 percent bigger. The new SE shares the original’s attractive price point and fingerprint-scanning home button, but it’s a significantly larger device. It officially replaces the first iPhone SE, which Apple released in 2016 and stopped selling some time in 2018. But this year it feels like the idea of a small phone you’d actually want to use as a primary device (read: not whatever that Palm phone was trying to be a couple years back) is truly dead and gone.Įarlier today, Apple announced the second-generation iPhone SE, which is basically an iPhone 8 with the processor of the iPhone 11.

It’s no secret that the average size of new smartphones has increased dramatically over the past few years. It’s been a bad year for small phone lovers.
