As anticipated, Apple unveiled the latest addition to the iPhone family today. Although they had teased a ‘new addition to the family,’ which is technically true…it was really a replacement. The new budget…if you can call it that….iPhone is dubbed the 16e. The 16e replaces the SE phone…the name for several years for the cheaper iPhone….which has been discontinued. So, as the saying goes, ‘what’s in the box?’ Well, you are looking at a 6.1 inch OLED display with the infamous notch…no ‘dynamic island.’ It comes with Face ID and a USB-C port, and runs on Apple’s A18 chip. The 16e has a single 48MP camera, and surprisingly…fully supports Apple Intelligence. The camera does have the integrated 2X telephoto zoom, which lets you zoom in and have a high-resolution image quality level without a 2nd dedicated camera. The front-facing ‘selfie’ camera is 12MP. The phone has Wireless charging and almost as surprising as the Apple Intelligence…it has Satellite connectivity for Emergency SOS AND Messages, as well as Find My by satellite. This is the first iPhone to run the Apple-designed 5G cellular Modem…the C1 chip. the iPhone 16e runs $599 for 128 Gigs…this is the base memory for iPhones now, thankfully…and you can preorder it Friday. The first phones will arrive February 28th. With a slight improvement on Henry Ford’s old ‘You can have any color you want, as long as it is black,’ the iPhone 16e comes in either black or white. 

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.