I’m not sure how you feel about having just a single camera on a phone, it just doesn’t feel right in 2025. Yet, that’s exactly what you get with the iPhone 16e — which technically is the cheapest new iPhone you can buy, being the spiritual successor to the iPhone SE 2022.
That’s why I put the iPhone 16e and iPhone 16 through my usual 200-photo shootout, to see which is the superior best camera phone contender. In my iPhone 16e review, I call out the night and day performance of its camera over the iPhone SE 2022. However, it’s missing that extra utility of an ultrawide camera.
