After Apple introduced Powerbeats Professional final evening, it slowly grew to become clear that the iPhone SE 4 was not on the record of the corporate’s bulletins for this week.
On 6 February, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman advised that the brand new cellphone could be launched “subsequent week”, so between 10-14 February. Nonetheless, it appears impossible that the machine will launch between now and Friday.
As an alternative, Gurman now means that Apple will unveil the brand new iPhone subsequent week in a sequence of various product briefings. As an alternative, the “smaller announcement” is prone to have been a brand new Apple Well being research.
Halyna Kubiv
February is a relatively uncommon month for {hardware} bulletins. Apple prefers March or April to current units that don’t slot in with WWDC or the iPhone keynote.
The subsequent iPhone SE is a distinct story. The producer has exhausted the timeframe of the EU directive for the frequent charging port to the top and needed to withdraw the iPhone 14 and 2022 iPhone SE from sale within the EU as a result of they had been nonetheless geared up with the Lightning connector.
Because of this Apple doesn’t have an entry-level providing for price-conscious clients in its second-largest market. As well as, the iPhone SE 3 is sort of outdated as a smartphone; the design comes from the iPhone 8, which in flip goes again to the iPhone 6S and was launched in 2015. The SE 3 is provided with the A15 Bionic, a processor from 2021 that was initially solely used within the iPhone 13.
The iPhone SE can be the final “present” smartphone from Apple that doesn’t assist Apple Intelligence.
Nonetheless, with the iPad Mini A17 Professional final yr, it grew to become clear that the corporate is dedicated to elevating all its units to the extent of Apple Intelligence. Briefly, with each week that passes with out the brand new iPhone SE, Apple loses pure cash.
That is exactly why the corporate would launch the brand new machine at an uncommon time in February and never wait till March, and Gurman might be proved proper subsequent week in spite of everything.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication Macwelt and was translated and tailored from German.