With about two month to go until the launching of the newfangled iPhone SE , we thought we had learned everything about the approaching budget phone . But a fresh escape claim it will be a tidy sum unlike than we thought .
According to longtime leakerEvan Blass on X , the iPhone SE 4 will have a Dynamic Island instead of a notch . That contradicts basically every other rumor we ’ve heard about the iPhone SE showing , which has long been expected to have a notch . Apple first dropped the notch with the iPhone 14 Pro adopt by the iPhone 15 a twelvemonth later . hearsay have long arrogate the iPhone SE 4 will be based on the iPhone 14 , the last iPhone to have a notch .
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Granted , the repose of what we ’ve heard about the iPhone SE 4 couple up with the iPhone 15 , include a 48MP camera and USB - C. But if the iPhone SE 4 has a Dynamic Island , it changes everything we think we bed about the phone .
For one , Apple still sell the iPhone 15 . If the iPhone SE 4 has the same design and display with a better chip , the only welfare of the iPhone 15 will be a secondary camera , which is a hard sell for a year - old phone that will likely cost $ 200 more and have a dull Saratoga chip . And who would purchase an iPhone 14 with a pass and a Lightning port when the brand - novel iPhone SE 4 is cheaper ?
If Blass is correct , it likely means that Apple will deepen its iPhone strategy and distill the lineup down to just five model : the iPhone 16 , 16 Plus , 16 Pro , 16 Pro Max , and iPhone SE 4 . Or maybe16E , though Blass also report that the iPhone SE name will stick around .
Apple is wait to unveil theiPhone SE 4 in March or April , possibly at aspring eventalongside the11th - gen iPad .
