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09 March 2022
Apple announces the new iPhone?SE: a?powerful smartphone in an iconic design
The most affordable iPhone features the powerful A15?Bionic, 5G, better battery life, improved durability, and a new camera system with advanced features like Smart?HDR?4, Photographic?Styles and Deep?Fusion
Cupertino, California Apple today announced iPhone?SE, a powerful new iPhone in an iconic design, with exceptional capabilities and performance at an incredible price. iPhone SE comes in a compact and durable design, and together with iOS?15, delivers a seamless user experience. The new iPhone?SE features impressive upgrades including the performance of A15?Bionic, which powers advanced camera capabilities and makes nearly every experience better, from photo editing to power-intensive operations like gaming and augmented reality. Along with 5G, longer battery life and improved durability, iPhone?SE comes in three stunning colours — midnight, starlight and (PRODUCT)RED.1 iPhone?SE will be available for pre-order this Saturday, 12?March, with availability beginning Friday, 18?March.
“iPhone SE has been an incredibly popular choice with our existing users and for new iPhone customers, thanks to its iconic design, exceptional performance and affordable price. This year we’ve built the most powerful and durable iPhone?SE yet, with better battery life thanks to A15?Bionic, the same chip as our iPhone?13 line-up that also unlocks advanced camera features like Smart HDR?4, Photographic?Styles and Deep?Fusion,” said Kaiann Drance, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide iPhone Product Marketing. “And with 5G, iPhone?SE gives users faster downloads and uploads, higher-quality video streaming, real-time interactivity in apps and much more. Delivering the latest generation of technology and performance at this price is something only Apple can do.”
Iconic Design with a 4.7-inch Display
iPhone?SE is as durable as it is beautiful, and features an aerospace-grade aluminium and glass design, now with the toughest glass in a smartphone on the front and back — the same as on the back of iPhone?13?Pro and iPhone?13. Rated IP67 for water and dust resistance, iPhone?SE is designed to protect against spills.2 iPhone SE features the familiar Home button with Touch?ID — an easy, private and secure alternative for logging in to apps, authorising App?Store purchases, making Apple?Pay transactions and more.
A15 Bionic: The Ultimate Smartphone Chip
The power of Apple silicon delivers industry-leading performance and cutting-edge capabilities to iPhone. The lightning-fast A15?Bionic — introduced with iPhone?13 — comes to iPhone?SE and makes nearly every experience better, from launching apps to handling demanding tasks with ease. A15?Bionic packs a powerful 6-core CPU, the fastest CPU in a smartphone, with two high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores, making iPhone?SE up to 1.8x faster than iPhone?8, and even faster compared to older models. The 16-core Neural Engine is capable of 15.8?trillion operations per second, enabling faster machine learning computations for third-party applications, as well as unlocking features for iPhone?SE like Live Text in the Camera app with iOS?15, and on-device dictation. Perfect for photography, gaming and augmented reality experiences, A15?Bionic makes every action feel fluid.
Built for efficiency, A15?Bionic works in conjunction with the latest-generation battery chemistry and tight integration with iOS?15 to enable better battery life on iPhone?SE. Even with its compact form factor and new technologies like 5G, iPhone?SE has longer battery life than the previous-generation and older 4.7-inch iPhone models. iPhone?SE is compatible with Qi-certified chargers for wireless charging, and also supports fast charging.3
A15?Bionic in iPhone?SE makes nearly every action feel fluid, from launching apps to gaming and augmented reality experiences.
New Camera Experience Powered by A15 Bionic
iPhone?SE features an all-new camera system powered by A15?Bionic, with a 12-megapixel ?/1.8 aperture Wide camera that offers incredible computational photography benefits, including Smart?HDR?4, Photographic?Styles, Deep?Fusion and Portrait mode.4 Introduced with iPhone?13?Pro and iPhone?13, Smart?HDR?4 uses intelligent segmentation to apply different adjustments for colour, contrast and noise to the subject versus the background. This ensures faces are properly exposed in challenging lighting, and renders people in the same photo individually, with different adjustments optimised for lighting and skin tone for each person. Photographic Styles allows users to bring their personal photo preferences to every image while still benefitting from Apple’s multiframe image processing. Preset and customised preferences work across scenes and subjects, and unlike a simple filter, intelligently apply the right adjustments to parts of the photo to ensure the important elements, like different skin tones, are preserved. Deep Fusion uses advanced machine learning to do pixel-by-pixel processing, optimising for texture, details and noise in every part of the photo. The image signal processor in A15?Bionic delivers significantly improved videos with reduced noise, particularly in low light, with better white balance and truer skin tone.
5G Comes to iPhone SE
5G allows users to take advantage of the latest generation of wireless technology, with faster uploads and downloads, lower latency and better experiences in more places — like seeing family with higher-quality HD FaceTime calls, even when on mobile data and not on Wi-Fi.5 With iOS?15, SharePlay on 5G unlocks powerful shared experiences such as watching HDR movies or TV shows in sync with friends while on a FaceTime call. And Smart Data mode will intelligently conserve battery life by automatically shifting iPhone to LTE when 5G speeds are not needed. Support for 5G worldwide is growing, with more than 200 carriers in over 70 markets and regions supporting it by the end of the year.
Featuring iOS 15
iOS 15 enhances the iPhone experience with more ways to stay connected, powerful updates that help users focus and explore, and intelligent features to get more done with iPhone. Now FaceTime calls feel more natural with Spatial Audio and a new Portrait mode, SharePlay delivers a way for users to share experiences with friends and family while on a FaceTime call, Focus helps users reduce distraction, notifications have been redesigned, and Live Text uses on-device intelligence to recognise text in a photo and allows users to take action. Apple?Maps brings beautiful ways to navigate and explore the world with a three-dimensional city-driving experience and walking directions in augmented reality. Weather is redesigned with full-screen maps and more graphical displays of data, and privacy controls in Siri, Mail and more places across the system further protect user information.6
iPhone SE and the Environment
Like iPhone?13?Pro and iPhone?13, iPhone SE is designed to minimise its impact on the environment. iPhone?SE is made with recycled materials, including 100?per cent recycled rare earth elements in the Taptic Engine and audio magnets, 100?per cent recycled tungsten in the Taptic Engine and 100?per cent recycled tin in the solder of the main logic board. Redesigned packaging eliminates the outer plastic wrap, bringing Apple closer to its goal of completely removing plastic from all packaging by 2025. iPhone?SE meets Apple’s high standards for energy efficiency and remains free of numerous harmful substances.
Today, Apple is carbon-neutral for global corporate operations, and by 2030, plans to have net-zero climate impact across the entire business, which includes manufacturing supply chains and all product life cycles. This means that every Apple device sold, from component manufacturing, assembly, transport, customer use, charging, all the way through recycling and material recovery, will be 100?per cent carbon-neutral.
Pricing and Availability
- iPhone SE will be available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB models in midnight, starlight and (PRODUCT)RED starting at A$719 RRP inc. GST.
- Customers in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, the UK, the US and more than 30 other countries and regions will be able to pre-order iPhone SE beginning at 12:00 am AEDT on Saturday, 12?March, with availability beginning Friday, 18?March.
- Customers can get iPhone SE?from apple.com/au/store, in the Apple Store app and at Apple Store locations.
- iPhone SE is also available through Apple Authorised Resellers and selected carriers.
- Apple provides customers with a number of services in store and online. From personalised support and advice from Apple Specialists to convenient delivery and pick-up options, Apple ensures the best way to buy Apple products is from Apple Store locations and apple.com/au/store.
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- Every iPhone?SE (PRODUCT)RED purchase contributes directly to the Global Fund to combat pandemics like COVID?19 and AIDS.
- iPhone SE is splash-, water- and dust-resistant, and was tested under controlled laboratory conditions with a rating of IP67 under IEC standard 60529 (maximum depth of 1?metre for up to 30?minutes). Splash, water, and dust resistance are not permanent conditions. Resistance might decrease as a result of normal wear. Do not attempt to charge a wet iPhone; refer to the user guide for cleaning and drying instructions. Liquid damage is not covered under warranty but you might have rights under consumer law.
- Up to 50?per cent charge in 30?minutes with 20W adapter or higher (sold separately).
- Portrait mode on iPhone?SE has the ability to recognise people.
- A data plan is required. 5G, Gigabit LTE, VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling are available in selected markets and through selected carriers. Speeds are based on theoretical throughput and vary based on site conditions and carrier. For details on 5G and LTE support, customers can contact their carrier or visit apple.com/au/iphone/cellular.
- Some features may not be available in all regions or all languages. For more information on iOS 15, visit apple.com/au/ios/ios-15/features.