Apple's next iPhone SE needs these five Google Pixel 6a features

Apple should be paying attention to Google's moves.

- CHRIS BARYLICK

Since the launch of the first Pixel phone in 2016, Apple and Google have been in a perpetual features-based arms race as to what their smartphones can offer their customers. While this is exceptionally prevalent in the flagship devices such as the iPhone 13 Pro Max and the Pixel 6 Pro, the two companies are also in a continuous dogfight to control the midrange market with their respective "budget" handsets, the $429 iPhone SE and $449 Pixel 6a.

There are plenty of admirable traits to consider with the current iPhone SE, most notably its A15 Bionic processor, which edges out the Google Tensor processor found on the Pixel 6a. Still, Apple may need to take a long, hard look at its offerings for its budget smartphone and gauge the best ways to keep up in the entry-level market. Here are five Pixel 6a features we'd like to see Apple borrow for its next-generation iPhone SE.

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