The Apple rumor mill is like the house of the absurd at the second . We ’ve been expect for the iPhone SE 4 for three long years , and Bloomberg leaker Mark Gurman keeps popping up to declare that it’slaunching within solar day … but it never arrives . It ’s all rather reminiscent of Samuel Beckett , or of the bar near our office where there ’s always free beer . Tomorrow .
Undaunted , Gurman promptlyrepeated his prediction : this workweek , the novel iPhone willdefinitelyarrive . And we ’re somewhat certain he ’s correct ; after all , the other part of his prediction has already come true . Last Wednesday there was indeed a “ small ” announcement from Apple . In fact we got two : anew wellness studyin the Research app , and the Apple TV appcoming to Androidand expanding the swarm serve ’s potential customer base . Neither of these is incisively a big deal , but we were admonish .
What Gurman probably did n’t have on his radar was that the most successful Apple leaker would turn out to CEO Tim Cook himself . On X / Twitter / Xitter he revealed that a “ new member of the phratry ” would arrive on Wednesday , February 19 . That sounds a lot like the new iPhone SE , although there are other ways of rede the Cupertino vaticinator .
Whatever the new phratry member turns out to be , we ’re thirstily awaiting Wednesday and its announcements . The iPhone SE 4 actuallyisa big deal , merit of a party , not just a press release . And not a bunch of undignified guess about announcements this week , or next hebdomad , or a random Tuesday next yr . But what can you do ? The market place always craves the new , and the metier ( including Macworld ! ) can not hold out gasp up what is probably a sensible but by no substance rotatory new smartphone into the 8th admiration of the world .
However , there are numerous intellect why the iPhone SE 4 will be a highly interesting gadget for customer and reporters alike . For one thing , since the start of 2025 , Apple has n’t had a budget iPhone on sale in the EU , after updated charging standards force it to go to sleep the Lightning - found iPhone SE 3 and iPhone 14 . An expansion of Apple ’s humble - end reach is need as quickly as possible .
What ’s also interesting is that the iPhone SE 3 will be the last Apple twist with a Home button , more than seven years after the iPhone X herald the earned run average of almost bezel - less iPhones with Face ID . But will customers accustomed to using the Home release finally switch over , or will many not be able to get by with Face ID and the new gesture ? We shall see .
And last but not least , we ’re interested in the wireless engineering in the iPhone SE 4 ( assuming that all the rumour we ’ve heard are reliable ) . Almost ten years after Apple pop out a dispute with scrap producer Qualcomm over its licensing fee , the fresh equipment is expected to get a proprietary wireless chip . As with other components it ’s learned to build for itself , Apple first had to bring the expertise in - house , in this suit in the form ofIntel ’s modem division . But the benefitsshould be worth it .
So we have every reasonableness to front fore to theiPhone SE 4 . But why does Apple always have to keep us in suspense ?
This clause originally appeared on our sister publicationMacweltand was interpret and localized from German .
