We’re anticipating to see the iPhone SE 4 in some unspecified time in the future this yr, almost certainly within the spring. However each time it arrives, Apple’s newest cellphone may introduce a brand new title that retires the SE label.
The newest signal of a reputation change arrives within the type of a post on X by leaker Majin Bu, who has a combined document on the subject of correct cellphone studies. In accordance with the publish, the iPhone SE 4 goes to debut because the iPhone 16E.
This is not the primary time that potential title change has surfaced. A Weibo post from again in December made an identical declare concerning the iPhone 16E label.
Primarily based on what my supply has reported, plainly the brand new iPhone that Apple will unveil in 2025 is not going to be referred to as iPhone SE4, however iPhone 16E. It ought to function a design much like the iPhone 14, with an OLED show and an motion button. The out there colours might be white and… pic.twitter.com/Vm8DCh1Xo0December 31, 2024
Earlier than you dismiss this as ho-hum information, it is truly signal for the midrange Apple cellphone and its potential function set. Calling the system the iPhone 16E as an alternative of the iPhone SE (2025) means that Apple considers this cellphone an extension of the iPhone 16 lineup launched final fall. And particularly, that would imply an necessary function makes the grade for this iPhone SE (2022) successor.
It will not be the cellphone’s design, which is rumored to be extra harking back to the iPhone 14, due to a notched show as an alternative of a display screen with a Dynamic Island function. As an alternative, I am fascinated about the internals of the cellphone. Calling it the iPhone 16E suggests Apple plans to incorporate the identical processor featured within the entry-level iPhone 16. And that A18 silicon would enable the iPhone 16E to help Apple Intelligence features.
Apple has been introducing Apple Intelligence as a part of the iOS 18 replace, although up till now, the suite of AI instruments has been restricted to telephones with an A17 Professional chipset or later. Meaning apart from the iPhone 16 fashions, solely the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max can run Apple Intelligence. The iPhone 16E would add to that quantity whereas additionally giving folks a extra inexpensive strategy to expertise Apple Intelligence, even when the price rises from the $429 cost of the current iPhone SE as many anticipate.
Different telephones have made their AI options extra accessible to customers, with Google‘s lower-cost A collection telephones supporting the identical capabilities as its Pixel flagships. Samsung has prolonged Galaxy AI options to older flagship fashions, although its midrange Galaxy A35 can help some capabilities like Circle to Search. A sub-$500 iPhone that helps Apple Intelligence can be a step towards Apple broadening the attain of its AI instruments.