iPhone SE: The Anti 2020 Smartphone

There is something of a romanticism in our modern society with the people that buck trends. The people that are trail blazers and march to the beat of their own drum and whatever other profound cliche that you want to use. We are told that this is the ideal, to stand out from the pack and to defy uniformity. While this applies to us as individuals, it seems that in our technology devices these rules don’t seem to apply. Every smartphone looks the same, every TV looks the same, and every laptop for the most part looks the same. There are standards in place that have suffocated something that is different. It is with this in mind that I am pleasantly surprised and intrigued by Apple’s newly announced iPhone SE refresh. This phone takes almost everything that we have come to expect from a smartphone in 2020 and throws it all away. In many ways, this is the anti establishment phone of this year. Let’s explore why.

The Return of Small

The first thing that comes to my mind when it comes to the original iPhone SE was that it was the small phone champion. A powerful device that allowed for one handed use in a time where phones have been getting larger. Back in 2016 this was the trend…