{"id":4615,"date":"2025-06-13T09:22:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2025-06-13T09:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:22:34","slug":"apple-launches-iphone-16e-and-ditches-home-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/apple-launches-iphone-16e-and-ditches-home-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple launches iPhone 16e and ditches home button"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Revamped entry-level iPhone<\/a><\/strong> is last to exchange touch ID home button for face ID, modern design \u2013 and a price hike<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple has put the final nail in the coffin of the home button after 18 years with the release of the new iPhone 16e<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lowest-cost new iPhone replaces the 2022 iPhone SE, which was the last Apple product standing with the touch ID button<\/a><\/strong>, finishing off its drawn-out demise, which started with the iPhone X back in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The iPhone 16e<\/a><\/strong> costs \u00a3599 (\u20ac709\/$599\/A$999) and offers a modern iPhone experience similar to the regular iPhone 15 and latest iPhone 16 but with a few bells and whistles removed to reach a slightly lower price. It replaces the previously cheapest available \u00a3599 iPhone 14 and \u00a3429 iPhone SE in Apple\u2019s lineup, and thus marks a considerable price increase for the cheapest new iPhone when it ships on 28 February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new iPhone<\/a><\/strong> has an aluminium frame, glass front and back and an 15.4cm (6.1in) OLED screen, relegating the old-school iPhone design, with its chunky forehead and chins, to history. But the 16e is only available in black or white and has the older, notch-style cutout at the top of the screen from the iPhone 14, not the newer pill-shaped dynamic island design used by the rest of the iPhone lineup. The notch contains the face ID sensor that replaces the touch ID<\/a><\/strong> system for unlocking the phone and authenticating payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The phone starts with 128GB of storage and has Apple<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s latest A18 chip, which enables the firm\u2019s various AI tools, to bring the cheapest iPhone up to par with the rest of the line. It has 5G powered by a new Apple modem for the first time, emergency satellite messaging, charges via USB-C and has an action button instead of the mute switch in the side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the phone<\/a><\/strong> has only a single 48-megapixel camera on the back instead of the double or triple cameras of other iPhones, and lacks the recently added camera control button on the side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite a sizable price hike over the outgoing iPhone SE<\/a><\/strong>, Apple will be hoping this beefed-up lower cost model can recapture some of the mid-range smartphone market and improve slumping sales in countries such as China. It may also help in moving a greater share of iPhone users on to devices capable of receiving Apple intelligence features, on which the firm has bet big to catch up to rivals such as Google<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s Gemini on Pixel and Samsung devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revamped entry-level iPhone is last to exchange touch ID home button for face ID, modern design \u2013 and a price hike Apple has put the final nail in the coffin of the home button after 18 years with the release of the new iPhone 16e. The lowest-cost new iPhone replaces the 2022 iPhone SE, which was the last … Continue reading “Apple launches iPhone 16e and ditches home button”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4616,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}