Yet more evidence that Apple’s budget phone is headed in a radical direction.
Just weeks after the release of the iPhone 16, thoughts are already turning to the more affordable smartphone Apple plans to unveil early next year. In many ways this will be a far more interesting and radical launch.
The iPhone SE is updated less frequently than the flagship models at the top of the iPhone range: the three models so far have arrived in 2016, 2020, and 2022, with the 4th-gen SE expected to debut in spring 2025. For this reason, it might be expected that these rarer events would be more substantive, but that wasn’t the case with the 3rd-gen SE, which was, in fact a disappointment. So Apple owes us big for the 4th-gen model–and it might actually deliver.
The expectation is that we’re about to get a long-overdue design revamp, away from the iPhone 8 chassis used for the last two models and into something resembling a modern smartphone.
