“Apple is preparing to launch a new lower-price iPhone during the first half of 2018, China’s Economic Daily News said Wednesday,” Todd Haselton reports for CNBC.
“The new iPhone SE 2 will cost about $450 and will be aimed at sales in emerging markets, according to the report, which did not cite sources,” Haselton reports. “The report suggested that the iPhone SE 2 will replace the current iPhone SE.”
“The current model starts at $349, $200 cheaper than the next most affordable smartphone, Apple’s iPhone 7,” Haselton reports. “The iPhone SE 2 will cost about $450, more expensive than the current price but still less expensive than the iPhone 7, the Daily said. It’s likely the phone will have a more powerful processor…”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We imagine the iPhone SE would offer Apple’s A10 Fusion chip, rather than the A11 Bionic, and keep the Home button with Touch ID while potentially providing camera improvements (although the SE’s cameras are already very good). We might also see capacity bumps up from the current 32GB and 128GB choices.
We wonder if Apple would go so far as to redesign the case to follow more in the vein of the iPhone 6/7/8 look?
[12:34pm ET: Changed headline “less expensive” to “low cost.” Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “mossman” for the heads up.]
MDN, your current headline “Apple said to release less expensive iPhone SE 2 in first half of 2018” is inconsistent with the quote in the article, “The iPhone SE 2 will cost about $450, more expensive than the [iPhone SE] price” of $349.
The confusion probably comes from the first line, “Apple is preparing to launch a new lower-price iPhone”… but what they actually mean is a new “budget” iPhone that’s “lower-priced” than the 4.7″ and larger iPhones.
The longer I can avoid the face thing in a decent form factor the better; abandoning the iconic, crisp SE design for the uninspired design used in the rest of the lineup would be a tragedy
Iphone x is the most beautiful iphone ever..imo.
No it’s not(ch)
This is why Apple has a maybe soon to ship $5K iMac, an unseen mod Mac Pro and the not-ready-for-prime-time HomePod – that’s nothing more than an expensive internet radio they’ve been working on since 2012 & is now postponed til 2018.
Apple today is nothing but a cell phone provider with a side business in computers & consumer products.
“Apple today is nothing but a cell phone provider with a side business in computers & consumer products.”
Thats called an evolving ecosystem unrivalled by anyone, has to be the greatest business model ever devised.. “Heres to the Crazy ones..” to the snivelling remainder (flips the bird).
Cook seems to be doing everything a sugar water salesman would do. More special editions of old hardware. Lots of stale products hiding in the corners.
Tim Cook, master of mediocrity.
Time Cook, worst mistake Steve ever made
You think Steve should have done his cooking by weight, instead?
“You know, Isaacson, microwaves are a bag of hurt, but we’ve cracked that thing wide open!”
Apple, give me a smaller phone sans notch.