iPhone SE

While it’s only a little over a year old, Apple’s 2022 third-generation iPhone SE is already showing its age. After all, it still sports a design from a bygone era — that of the 2017 iPhone 8 — including a Touch ID home button on the front and a single-lens camera on the back.

In fact, the third-generation iPhone SE was really just an interim refresh of its 2020 predecessor, intended to bring 5G to Apple’s most affordable iPhone. While it got the newest A15 chip from the iPhone 13 that had been released a few months earlier, nothing else really changed.

The iPhone SE is tempting if you’re on a tight budget. However, we’d still recommend spending a bit extra for the iPhone 13, which will give you a more modern design, a gorgeous OLED display, a significantly better camera system, and Face ID. Or, you can wait a few months, by which time Apple will almost certainly have an iPhone SE 4 out, which is expected to look much more like the iPhone 14.