Apple is predicted to announce a brand new iPhone SE as early as subsequent week, and it might mark a serious shakeup to the corporate’s reasonably priced iPhone, including in Face ID and killing off the basic residence button. We now have a fairly good thought of what’s coming after months of leaks and rumors, so right here’s all the pieces we count on to see subsequent week.
There gained’t be a house button…
The largest change is that Apple is upending the iPhone SE’s design, after leaving it broadly unchanged for the reason that sequence’ inception in 2016. The 2022 SE is the final iPhone nonetheless utilizing a house button, with a thick bezel across the prime and backside of the display. However rumors say Apple will now ditch the button, slim the bezel, and add Face ID.
The outcome will probably be a telephone that appears just like the iPhone 14 from the entrance. Like that telephone, it’s anticipated to position its Face ID sensors in a notch, reasonably than utilizing the much less obtrusive Dynamic Island design that was launched within the 14 Professional and has been utilized in each iPhone since then. Apple can’t resist protecting its SE sequence just a bit behind the instances.
We’ve seen the notched design in a video shared by the leaker Majin Bu, which reveals them dealing with what is probably going a non-functional dummy unit, utilized by case producers to design and take a look at their equipment.
…however there will probably be an Motion button
Bu’s video means that the SE 4 will embrace a customizable Motion button, however not the Digicam Management launched on the iPhone 16.
Like different SE fashions it seems to stay to a single rear digicam. One leaked spec checklist means that the SE will use a 48 megapixel sensor on the rear, with a 12 megapixel selfie digicam on the entrance, however that is an space the place there have been few experiences to this point.
It’s not going to be a small telephone
The redesign will enable the 2025 SE to have a bigger display than the 4.7-inch panel utilized by the 2022 mannequin. It’s anticipated to as a substitute use a 6.1-inch show, the identical dimension as the usual iPhone 16, and also will improve to OLED.
The larger display means the telephone as an entire will probably be bigger than any earlier iPhone SE, and there’ll now not be any iPhone smaller than the usual mannequin. If we assume the brand new telephone could have related dimensions to the iPhone 16 then it might be 9mm taller than the 2022 SE, and weigh about 25g extra.
Lightning is out, USB-C is in
It’s just about sure that the telephone could have a USB-C port reasonably than Lightning, permitting it to as soon as once more be offered within the EU. The earlier SE mannequin was discontinued in EU markets together with each different iPhone utilizing a Lightning port.
It’ll be some of the highly effective iPhones round
On the within, Bloomberg experiences that the telephone will use the identical A18 chip because the iPhone 16 and 16 Professional fashions. That’s the identical method Apple has used for its final two SE telephones, which have paired the newest silicon with extra dated designs. The A18 is predicted to be mixed with a rise to 8GB of RAM, the minimal required to run Apple Intelligence, the corporate’s AI instruments that present notification summaries and different performance, and are now enabled by default. That may all make it extra highly effective than 2023’s iPhone 15.
It would even beat this yr’s iPhone 17 sequence to characteristic Apple’s first in-house 5G modem, changing the Qualcomm parts that iPhones have used prior to now. Apple has been creating its personal modems for over half a decade, however Bloomberg warns that the primary iteration is a “downgrade” from the modem within the newest flagship iPhones, and gained’t help mmWave 5G, solely sub-6 — although that was true of the final iPhone SE too.
Whereas earlier rumors have pointed to a launch in March or April, Bloomberg experiences that Apple will announce the telephone subsequent week, although doesn’t count on it to go on sale till later within the month. It predicts a value of “roughly $500,” larger than the 2022 mannequin’s beginning value of $429. Which may be offset by a default storage spec of 128GB, that means there would now not be any 64GB iPhone available on the market.
There’s additionally a chance that it gained’t be known as the iPhone SE in any case. Two leakers have predicted that it’s going to as a substitute be known as the iPhone 16E, although for the reason that SE identify has popped up extra usually we expect that’s nonetheless extra probably.
If Bloomberg is true, we don’t have lengthy to attend to seek out out for certain. The SE could be the primary of a number of large iPhone launches this yr, with Apple tipped to disclose a slimmer iPhone 17 Air in addition to “main updates” to the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Professional.
