Has anyone upgraded iphone 8 for the new iphone SE?

What kind of deal can you get the SE for?

I have Cricket and it was only $350 (no contracts or anything.)

The iPhone SE appears to have much louder speakers.

SE has better performance (but not really enough to tell bc the 8 is great), camera (much better, especially portrait stuff), and overall value moving forward. The main reason to upgrade would be for longevity (iOs and future updates.)

I think the SE also has dual SIM support, but I haven't checked.

Ultimately it's up to you and what you want.

Well for one thing, I still owe 175 on my 256gb iPhone 8. So id have to pay that off, then I believe the SE 256gb is about $549.00
I could sell my mint 8 on ebay for at least 250-300.
Basically, it would be paying 175 payoff plus about 250 or so after deducting resale of my 8. I would be going in $425-$450 to change my iPhone 8 into an SE.


No sure if its worth the extra GB of ram, processing chip, and the portrait mode.

Sounds like you maybe you should wait then? Although, you should really just do what you want.

I tried to sell my immaculate iPhone 8 256 gb on eBay for like $225 or so and nobody would bite at all. I was shocked.. I did get offers for $200, but I decided to just give it to my dad at that point. I also didn't include any accessories in my listing though. My battery health was 85% on it though, so IDK if that factored into nobody buying it at my asking price. I have since bought a brand new battery for it and my dad is happy.

I got the new SE for my mother and like I mentioned before, the speaker is incredibly loud. It runs very nice, but IDK if it's worth upgrading unless you get a good deal on it.