Renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is usually quite right in his predictions about Apple products, and the latest brings us back to something old forgotten: the iPhone SE, which, after all, seems to have returned with a bang.

The new iPhone SE is at the door. in a series of messages from twitterKuo explained how Apple is rekindling its plans to develop and manufacture a new version of its “affordable” smartphone. According to the leaked data, the change compared to previous generations will be quite remarkable. Interestingly, the same analyst dismissed the possibility that Apple would launch this mobile phone in 2024.

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[Update] Apple has relaunched the iPhone SE 4 and will use an in-house 5G baseband chip. For the foreseeable future, Qualcomm’s significant decline in Apple orders is an inevitable consequence. https://t.co/0MeZDFnbzg

— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) February 27, 2023

Goodbye to iPhone 8 legacy. The latest iPhone SE was released in 2020 and reuses the design of the iPhone 8 and that 4.7-inch screen. According to Kuo, the new model will have a similar design to the current iPhone 14. Yes, it will feature the 6.1-inch OLED display, which will have slightly thicker bezels than the iPhone 14’s. of course it’s great.

Apple 5G chip. Another innovation is the inclusion of a 5G modem made by Apple, which will have 5G connectivity, but only in the “sub-6 GHz” bands. The current iPhone SE already has 5G connectivity, but they use the Qualcomm Snapdragon X57 chip and here Apple would get rid of that dependency.

Goodbye Intel, goodbye Qualcomm. This move with the 5G modem seems to anticipate this move for future iPhones and iPads. Apple has spent years trying to control all (or nearly all) of the hardware on its devices. Apple has already achieved this in its computers with the move to M chips and goodbye to Intel processors. Now he wants the same thing in mobile phones that depend on Qualcomm’s 5G chips, which Apple has been trying to solve for a while.

nothing until 2024. While there is no specific estimated release date, the new iPhone SE is likely not to be released until at least March 2024, according to MacRumors. This data is consistent with the pace Apple has tracked on previous models (2022, before 2020, first in 2016).

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