Apple’s high-end iPhones are the obvious winners when it comes to included tech but there’s something to be said for the iPhone SE. For starters, people might be able to afford one without donating an internal organ to that sketchy trenchcoat-wearing chap with the unusual accent standing in a back alley holding a styrofoam cooler with a scalpel stuck in the lid. No, we don’t want to talk about it.
Rumours about the fourth generation of the iPhone SE have been around for some time now but this newest lot — coming via leaker Ice Universe on the Chinese social media website Weibo — claims to have even more detail than was available back in April.
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Some of the details line up with previous leaks. The new budget iPhone’s supposed to sport a single rear camera with a 48MP sensor and upfront will be a 6.06in display. That’s quite a jump from the previous SE’s screen. If previous leaks are accurate, you can expect that screen to be a 60Hz LTPS OLED effort, while the front-facing camera could support face unlock on the upcoming device.
Inside is (supposedly) Apple’s new A18 Bionic chipset, another rumoured spec that makes sense. Apple is probably still a year or two away from using an M-series processor in a budget phone. 6GB or 8GB of LPGDDR5 RAM, a USB-C charging port, and a new aluminium frame are other upcoming features of the still-unannounced smartphone.
Should the iPhone SE’s newest iteration launch with all these bits, it’ll also do so at a R9,200 ($500) to R10,000 ($550) price point sometime in March next year. Of course, local pricing will be a little more expensive. There’s no mention of when Apple will make these rumours official but if it doesn’t happen in September, it’ll probably be… well, March 2025.