For months now we’ve been listening to that Apple will launch an iPhone 14 Max instead of an iPhone 14 mini, with this new mannequin entering into the other way – serving as a big-screen iPhone 14 (with out the extras from the Professional line), fairly than a small-screen model. However whereas the existence of this cellphone isn’t in a lot doubt, its identify now could be.

Based on leaker @Tommyboiiiiii (opens in new tab) in a Tweet noticed by Pocket Lint (opens in new tab), this cellphone would possibly as an alternative be known as the iPhone 14 Plus.

Their preliminary proof for this comes within the type of a photograph of some case packaging with the identify ‘iPhone 14 Plus’ printed on it, and so they adopted that up with one other Tweet linking to the supply – case-maker ESR’s official web site (opens in new tab), the place certainly an iPhone 14 Plus is talked about, and a screenshot of a Casetify web page (opens in new tab) which we’ve discovered, and which additionally mentions that very same identify.

Who stated Plus? pic.twitter.com/O7GJAsKT8bAugust 31, 2022

See extra

These are each revered third-party case producers who could properly have advance info on the identify, so it’s actually potential that ‘Plus’ is correct.

Then once more, in addition they would possibly simply be guessing or utilizing placeholder textual content till the identify is formally revealed, and with most leakers pointing to the iPhone 14 Max. As such, we’d actually take this contemporary rumor with a pinch of salt.

Evaluation: Max makes extra sense

Whereas we actually can’t rule out the iPhone 14 Plus moniker, we’d argue that iPhone 14 Max is the extra logical deal with.

Simply because the iPhone 14 Professional Max will probably be a bigger model of the iPhone 14 Professional, the iPhone 14 Max is anticipated to be a bigger model of the usual iPhone 14. Including ‘Plus’ into the combination simply complicates issues.

That stated, usually, Apple’s ‘Professional Max’ fashions have slightly bit extra to them than only a bigger display screen, so there could possibly be an argument for utilizing Plus when it’s actually simply the display screen dimension altering, however Max nonetheless feels easier and extra apparent.

Whereas we wouldn’t depend on seeing an iPhone 14 Plus on our greatest iPhone information, an iPhone 14 Max could properly make an look as soon as the iPhone 14 lineup launches on September 7.