14 DAY TRIAL // While all eyes are on the next-generation iPhone due in September, the consensus is that a new iPhone SE is no longer part of Apple’s plans.
That’d be quite a shape, to be honest, especially as the SE would serve as a cheaper alternative to the premium devices that Apple launches every year.
But according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who himself stated that the iPhone SE might be abandoned, the work on this device has restarted, with a fourth generation being developed as we speak.
The iPhone SE 4 will make the switch to OLED, therefore giving up on the LCD panel that it’s been using since the first generation.
Apple will significantly upgrade the device, so it’ll be a slightly revised version of the iPhone 14. This is big news on all fronts, as iPhone SE will therefore give up on the Touch ID sensor and go for Face ID with a notch and everything else.
“My latest survey indicates that Apple has recently restarted the iPhone SE 4, which will feature an OLED display instead of an LCD, as the biggest change. Overall, the SE 4 is a minor modification of the 6.1-inch iPhone 14,” Kuo said in a tweet. “The new iPhone SE 4 will equip with Apple's 5G baseband chip produced by a 4nm process (similar to 5nm) and will only support Sub-6GHz as the current plan.”
iPhone SE 4 is expected to launch next year, possibly in the spring, and without a doubt, the most important tidbit is the price.
Given it’ll be a revised version of the iPhone 14, it’ll be interesting how Apple positions the new SE in its lineup, especially as the iPhone 15 launching this year is unlikely to be much different hardware-wise from the existing contraption.