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Apple iPhone SE (2022)

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Two-minute review If you like your iPhone affordable and retro, Apple's iPhone SE 2022 edition might be your perfect phone. It moves the classic iPhone design language nowhere from its comfy spot in 2017, the year Apple launched the quite-similar iPhone 8. Two years ago, Apple took that chassis and upgraded the CPU to an A13 Bionic, the rear camera to a 12MP wide, and introduced "monocular depth estimation," which added Portrait Mode photography to the front and rear cameras. It was a nifty AI-infused trick that worked like a charm on faces, but nothing else. All those things you loved from the iPhone SE (2020) remain in the iPhone SE (2022). There's been no change to the thin and light body, no reintroduction of the 3.5mm headphone jack, no removal of the Touch ID. The Liquid Retina display is untouched. The cameras - a 12MP rear and 7MP front - are the same, too. The difference, and it is bigger than you think, is the new A15 Bionic, the very same Apple Silic...