last week we took a first look at the
brand new iPhone se and we noticed a lot
of obvious similarities to the iPhone 8
in that video we mentioned our parts
testing team discovered that the display
and cameras were interchangeable while
the battery was not due to a slightly
different connector today we're gonna
take a closer look at this modern iPhone
8 clone to see what other secrets it
holds as well as find out the results of
some more extensive part testing one of
the more interesting part swaps we did
during the teardown was the display we
found that the two displays worked in
both iPhones but we had some questions
about 3d touch we initially discovered
this Hardware in our iPhone success
display teardown 3d touch is an extra
layer of hardware in the display that
can detect the difference between a hard
press on the screen and regularly the
iPhone 8 has the 3d touch layer but the
new iPhone se allegedly only has haptic
touch haptic touch does away with the
fancy pressure-sensitive Hardware and
instead just senses the difference
between a short and a long press the two
screens are the same size but right off
the bat we notice the iPhone se is
missing the 3d touch controller chip on
its backside for the iPhone 8 has one we
also peeled away the rest of the display
to double check in our written teardown
and sure enough no sign of the 3d touch
layer another part we wanted to
investigate further was the rear-facing
camera some rumors suggested the SD
camera comes from the iPhone 8 but
others the iPhone 10 R we decided to
take them apart line them up and see
what we could figure out just by looking
at the sensors one thing's for sure the
essays image sensor is physically
smaller than the one in the 10r
our guess is that it's probably an
iPhone 8 sensor benefiting from a 13
image processing ever curious we swapped
the SE camera into our iPhone 8 body to
see how the photos came out like I did
me the camera upgrade would be a fixers
dream we took a handful of photos with
both cameras in the iPhone 8 for a
side-by-side comparison to see if we
could spot the difference between the
two cameras you can see in this photo of
a wild zebra focus exposure and white
balance are almost identical in gain
we'll see a different picture starts to
emerge though look at the difference in
details on the Zebras nose and the
carpet below its feet the se camera
sensor seems to have pulled out a lot
more detail in both those places this
point-and-shoot test was far from
scientific though it's possible that the
detail could be attributed to motion
blur or a subtle exposure change between
the two shots we're going to do more
in-depth testing and report back once we
have more conclusive evidence
whichever way it falls when we got to
the iPhone SES battery we saw that the
capacity and size were the same as the
iPhone eight when Apple retired 3d touch
in the iPhone 11 Pro Series they made
the displays a bit thinner and the
batteries a bit thicker
we know that SD doesn't have 3d touch
but the batteries are of the exact same
size so what gives we think it was
either so they could put a 399 dollar
price tag on the phone or that Apple
wants us to forget that 3d touch was
ever a thing so the batteries are the
same but one other factor in the
equation is that the battery connectors
are not the same the connector in the SE
is longer than the connector found in
the iPhone 8 so to sum it all up the
iPhone se sees cameras SIM tray taptic
engine main speaker and display assembly
including the microphone and proximity
sensor are all swappable with iPhone 8
parts and that screen should be cheaper
to replace than any new iPhone we've
seen in years however as with any modern
iPhone screen swap you will lose true
tone unless you have access to a screen
programmer and home buttons are still
not interchangeable in the event of a
repair you'll either need to hold on to
your original home button substitute an
aftermarket home button with no touch ID
or pay Apple whatever they asked to fix
it for you
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