iPhone SE vs iPhone 6S vs iPhone 6: The Small vs The Giants

26 Feb 2019

It’s been a few weeks that Apple has announced iPhone SE, a 4 inch smartphone, the sales of the device is not to the extreme expected by the company. Rather than buying iPhone SE, people are seeking information all over the internet to buy iPhone 6s or iPhone 6. Here I compared all the devices with its advantages and disadvantages, in all aspects of their specifications. 

Design: In terms of design, both iPhone 6s and iPhone 6 remains almost same. Apple iPhone 6 comes with 129g and measures 138.1 x 67 x 6.9mm, whereas iPhone 6s measures 138.1 x 67 x 7.1mm and weighs 143 gram. Both the device comes with same build and identical aluminum bodies, but the alloy used in iPhone 6s is a little bit different from iPhone 6, in order to rectify the bending issue caused on iPhone 6. Both the device comes with fingerprint sensors embedded in the home button on the device, and the version of the fingerprint sensor is quite different. iPhone  6s comes with the second version of fingerprint sensor, which is comparatively faster while comparing to iPhone 6. On the other hand, iPhone SE looks similar to iPhone 5s and incorporated with iPhone 6s technologies in it. iPhone SE is comparatively lighter than iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s, measures 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6mm, which is much thicker than iPhone 6. It comes with first generation Touch ID present in iPhone 6, and comes with four color variants similar to iPhone 6s.

Display: Both iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s comes with 4.7 inches of display with 326 PPI, which delivers the resolution of 1334 x 750. The major difference found in the devices is that iPhone 6s comes with 3D touch, whereas iPhone 6 lacks 3D touch. The 3D touch allows the users to perform various actions depends upon the pressure, in which you’re touching the device. iPhone SE comes with 4 inch display screen that supports resolution of 1336 x 640 resolution with PPI of 326 as same as iPhone 6s and iPhone 6. Similar to iPhone 6, iPhone SE doesn’t comes with 3D touch.

Camera: iPhone 6 comes with 8 megapixel of camera and aperture of f/2.2 and allows the users to take 1080p of video recording. It also comes with 1.2 front-facer camera with the same f/2.2 aperture. iPhone 6s comes with 12 megapixel of rear camera and 5 megapixel of front facing camera. But, iPhone SE comes with a combination of both iPhone 6s and iPhone 6 i.e., iPhone SE has 12 mega-pixel rear camera and 1.2 mega-pixel front camera. iPhone SE has the ability to take 4K video without any sort of heating issues.

Hardware: iPhone SE and iPhone 6s comes with Apple A9 chipset with M9 co-processor with 2GB of RAM, whereas iPhone 6 comes with Apple A8 processor with 1GB of RAM.  Apart from this all the devices support Apple Pay and  has other common connectivity features. In terms of battery, iPhone 6 comes with 1810mAh, iPhone 6s comes with 1715mAh and SE with 1642 mAh of battery.

Verdict: In all aspects, iPhone 6s will be a perfect choice with second generation Touch ID, better front camera and also with larger screen with the latest build. iPhone SE will be better, in case if you love the small screen display.

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