The iPhone SE Four lives…perhaps. In a latest Twitter thread, respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that the tech big has restarted growth on the iPhone SE 4 – two months after it was reportedly canceled.

The rationale the undertaking was axed within the first place, in response to Kuo’s publish on Medium (opens in new tab), was as a result of Apple wished its mid-range system to accommodate its first in-house 5G baseband chip so the corporate wouldn’t should depend on Qualcomm. Nonetheless, the {hardware} simply wasn’t “as much as par with Qualcomm’s [tech]” so the entire thing obtained scrapped again in early January. However now it seems Apple has an answer (opens in new tab). As an alternative of creating all the pieces from scratch, the iPhone SE Four will now reportedly be a modified model of the 6.1-inch iPhone 14.

Kuo claims the system will come outfitted with the aforementioned “baseband chip produced by a 4nm course of”; nonetheless, it would solely assist sub-6GHz 5G and never the sooner mmWave spectrum, identical to the earlier mannequin. The largest change as Kuo factors out is the telephone will sport an “OLED show as a substitute of an LCD”. Ross Younger (opens in new tab), one other respected trade analyst, claims the display screen might be offered by Chinese language producer BOE Know-how. Mass manufacturing, assuming growth goes easily, will start someday within the first half of 2024.  

Apple’s future plans

The remainder of the Twitter thread hints at Apple’s future endeavors. He goes on to say it’s nonetheless up within the air whether or not or not the inevitable iPhone 16 line will make the most of the brand new chipset. Apparently, the corporate is coping with some “technical obstacles [relating] to mmWave and satellite tv for pc communications.” But when it manages to tug it off, Kuo predicts the gulf between Apple and Qualcomm will develop because the latter’s {hardware} will now not be needed. He even speculates, that if mass manufacturing goes nicely, we may see iPads and Apple Watches ditching Qualcomm chipsets in favor of the baseband one.

And that’s just about all that may be gleaned from the thread because it immediately pertains to the iPhone SE Four or Apple’s plans. It’s unknown simply how a lot of the iPhone 14’s options, like Emergency SOS through Satellite tv for pc, or {hardware} might be current within the upcoming telephone. Value additionally stays a thriller. For the sake of comparability, the iPhone SE three launched again in March 2022 with a beginning price ticket of $429 in the US.

When you’re available in the market for a brand new telephone, you should definitely take a look at TechRadar’s newest round-up of the perfect iPhone offers earlier than the month ends.