The new iPhone SE looks like an iPhone 8 but works like Apple's top-of-the line iPhone 11 Pro and costs only $399. And yet, there are a lot of ways to think about the new SE. One is that it's a more affordable option than the iPhone 11. Or that it's the 2020 sequel to the original SE from 2016. Or, at 4.7 inches, that it's the smallest and cheapest iPhone you can currently buy. Or -- and this is my favorite way to think about it -- that it's an iPhone 8 with the brains and power of an iPhone 11. All in all though, the new iPhone SE is all these things -- and that's why I'm enamored with it.

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