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Apple just released the new iPhone 16e. And we'll... you  know what time it is. Get your own smartphone plan starting at $5 with Tello HERE: https://bit.ly/jrextello​ huge thanks to Tello for sponsoring this video and making inexpensive smartphone plans!  The iPhone 16e has just been released by Apple. Its basically the most basic iPhone you can get... while still paying almost flagship prices. I do wish Apple would toss some innovation into the 16e lineup of phones... it would for sure make my job easier.  Or maybe even just drop the price to a more reasonable 200 bucks or something instead of 600 bucks.  But what do i know.

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00:00When Apple doesn't tell us what the letter E stands for in the new iPhone 16e,

00:04it's kind of just up to us to guess. Some people think it stands for essential,

00:09or economical, or entry level. And some people – definitely not me – think the E in iPhone

00:1516e stands for egregiously expensive. Apple's been building these slightly less expensive

00:21earmarked E letter Frankenstein together smartphones all the way back since the first

00:26iPhone SE in 2016. That was 9 years ago. And you might think that since Apple didn't have to

00:32design all new components that the price would be more palatable, but you forgot who we're talking

00:37about. It does come in all your dog's favorite colors though. Let's see if the iPhone 16e can

00:42hold its own on the outside. And see, of course, if Apple included the big metal battery again

00:47on the inside. One thing I am impressed with is Apple's ceramic shield, which this 16e, which is

00:54shaped like an iPhone 14, does come installed with. Working our way through Mohs scale of hardness,

00:59we do start seeing very light scratches at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7.

01:04Even though it technically ranks the same as other smartphones, it does feel different.

01:10And my personal opinion is that ceramic shield is indeed better than regular tempered glass.

01:15The scratches are less pronounced. The 12 megapixel front facing selfie camera is off center,

01:21but that's normal for Apple. It's protected by the same ceramic shield as the rest of the phone.

01:25We have a small metal earpiece grill, which is in the center of the phone above the notch,

01:30making our way over to the frame rails of the iPhone 16e. Instead of titanium like on the flagships,

01:36this expensive budget phone is made from aluminum. Pretty normal. You might be wondering why I have a

01:41cool bandaid on my finger. It's because I got a kachowie. The iPhone 16e does feel lighter than other

01:50phones I've held recently, but that might be because we're missing the MagSafe magnets on the back.

01:55The volume buttons and action button are made from metal and are not removable. Thanks to Samsung,

02:00these are things we now have to test for. The USB-C 2.0 charging port can charge at 20 watts,

02:06and thanks to the wire mesh over the speaker grills, it is also IP68 water resistant.

02:12Remember though that water damage is still not covered under warranty. Making our way to this

02:16soft touched etched glass back panel, which hopefully is removable – we'll find out in a second – the

02:21main 48 megapixel camera lens is scratch resistant. The biggest L on this phone though is not having

02:27multiple camera lens perspectives like wide angle or telephoto. I personally use those all the time.

02:33The singular lens does not pop off though, which again thanks to Samsung is now something we have

02:38to test for. Zooming into the Apple logo stencil on the back, it looks like Apple absolutely nailed

02:43the placement this time around. Glad to see the attention to detail has improved from the iPhone

02:4816 Pro Max. Flipping the phone back around to test the pixels. With portfolios as torched as they are,

02:54a little more flame won't hurt. The 6.1 inch Super Retina XDR OLED display has a 60Hz refresh rate,

03:01and let's be honest, nobody's going to notice. It does last for about 20 seconds before going white,

03:06and this time freezing the display. But after a quick power cycle, the screen is back to working

03:11like normal with only a slight blemish. Again, all pretty regular stuff. Even the bend test. The Apple

03:18design is unflexing, unbending, unchanging, and unaffected, despite my attempts to snap it in half.

03:25Apple has survived yet another JerryRigEverything durability test. However, while the exterior is rather

03:30bland and boring, one place that Apple has changed things up is on the inside. The iPhone 16e is

03:36supposedly more repairable than most while utilizing the new electrically assisted battery removal

03:42procedure. I'll remove the two pentalobe screws at the bottom, which are very uniquely colored. Most

03:48likely a patina effect from the custom machining process. These are the fun things you notice when

03:53you're looking. One thing you also might have noticed lately is that contractual smartphone data

03:58plans have become just as egregiously expensive as smartphones themselves. But it doesn't have to

04:03be that way. I'll tell you about today's sponsor, Tello, as I try not to break the back glass of my

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04:25contracts just how we like it. Get unlimited text, calling, and data – 35 gigs of which are at high

04:31speed – for just $25 a month, along with free international calls to 60 different countries. And

04:37free Wi-Fi calling in hotspots. It's a crazy good plan that just sells itself. Tello even sells new

04:42smartphones on their website, which might make more sense economically than this phone we're currently

04:47taking apart. I'll leave a link for Tello down in the description, and huge thanks to Tello for having

04:52extremely reasonable prices and for sponsoring this video. With the iPhone 16e opened up, just like a

04:58look, I can start unscrewing the single tri-point screw, removing a metal bracket, and disconnecting

05:03the Lego style ribbon connectors. I do make a mistake here – see if you can figure out what it is before

05:08I figure out what it is. I'm a huge fan of the 16e's glass being removable. This solves one of the biggest

05:14gripes I've had with Apple since they started gluing the glass to the phone. Apple did remove the MagSafe

05:19magnets from the 16e, but honestly I'm not too worried about that. The wireless charging is still

05:24here, and you can always get MagSafe back by just buying a case with magnets in it, like the dbrand

05:29grip case. I'm also extremely happy with Apple's new battery removal process. I do personally need

05:35to find a better solution than a stripped down 9 volt battery with alligator clips, but it's also super

05:40cool that you can remove the whole battery with just a 9 volt battery and some alligator clips. No prying,

05:45no alcohol, just electricity. The battery has to be connected for about a minute and a half for

05:50the adhesive to finally release. The positive electrode is connected to the tab on the battery,

05:54and the negative alligator clip is just tacked onto a screw near the charging port. And voila,

05:59the battery is free. Except for that I forgot that it was plugged in this whole time. What I thought

06:04was the battery connector earlier was actually not the battery connector. Fingers crossed that I didn't

06:09actually fry the phone. With two more little tri-point screws removed, we can set aside the second metal

06:14bracket and take a closer look at the electrically debonded adhesive along with the 4005 milliamp hour

06:20battery. Thumbs up to Apple for making this thing easy to fix. Finally, let's take a look at the

06:24single 48 megapixel rear facing camera. I feel a little bad about this one since it's like poking

06:29out Cyclops' one good eye. Apple says this camera has something called OIS, which is optical image

06:35stabilization. It's a pretty normal hardware based lens shifting type of compensation to get more stable

06:41images while recording videos. But Apple has also invented a type of sensor shift stabilization in

06:46some of their other phones. And I just want to see if this singular camera lens comes with that

06:50feature or not. Shredding down the camera lens housing reveals that there are indeed some magnets

06:55inside the camera, but only for the lens itself. So no sensor shift stabilization on this guy. Which is

07:01fine. Would have been cool to see though. Now Cyclops has no eye for nothing. Personally, I just hope I didn't

07:07cook this phone with my 9 volt battery while it was still connected. I think if Apple wanted to

07:11absolutely crush Android and obtain that last 40% market share they don't have already, they could

07:17sell this thing at like 200 bucks and probably still make a profit while locking even more people

07:22into their inescapable ecosystem. But that would probably be bad for innovation in general, so I'm

07:27glad they didn't. And look at that. Another teardown success. The iPhone 16e says it doesn't recognize

07:33the camera anymore, which is weird since it is sitting right here, but it probably can't see it.

07:38The easiest way to see the inside of your own phone is with one of my dbrand teardown skins.

07:42And of course if you want to save money on your monthly cell phone bill,

07:46Tello is waiting for you in the description. Thanks a ton for watching. I'll see you around.

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