Apple is expected to launch a new iPhone earlier this year. Nicknamed the iPhone SE 2 or iPhone 9, it should combine old design and recent components to offer a smartphone at a price rather aggressive for Apple.
IPhone SE 2, or iPhone 9, has been the subject of many rumors and leaks for many months. It’s expected to launch in March and we’ve gathered here everything we know about its specs, price and design.
What is the design of the iPhone 9?
Almost all the rumors around the iPhone 9 point to reuse of iPhone 8 design. The biggest leak was published by OnLeaks and allows you to discover the design of this iPhone in detail through several images. These images were taken from factory plans.
Like the iPhone 8, the iPhone 9 would therefore integrate a 4.7-inch screen in 16: 9 format with wide borders above and below the screen. A design dated at the time when almost all smartphones offer edge-to-edge screens. This design will allow Apple to recycle its TouchID fingerprint readers, since it is a biometric sensor of this type that can be found on the front of the smartphone. Again, at a time of facial recognition and fingerprint readers below the surface of the screen, this element of design might seem quite dated.
You can see at the back the use of a single sensor photo module. An element that completely disappeared from the iPhone 11 range in 2020. The rear should be plastic or glass to allow wireless charging, but it is not known if Apple will apply the same frosted effect as on the iPhone 11 to create a coherent range or not.
iPhone SE 2 or iPhone 9: what name will this iPhone have?
First rumored to be “iPhone SE 2”, Apple’s next iPhone is expected to be released as iPhone 9.
The iPhone SE was unveiled by Apple in March 2016, about 4 years ago. This very particular model of iPhone fulfilled several missions:
- offer a compact format;
- offer an iPhone at a more aggressive price;
- recycle components from previous iPhones and make Apple’s production chains even more profitable.
Since 2016, the design and components of the iPhone have evolved. Apple has also marked a break by revealing the iPhone X (or iPhone “ten”) with the design that we know well today, in addition to the iPhone 8 which used the old format of iPhone (used from iPhone 6).
The iPhone we are talking about here is clearly the successor to the iPhone SE, because it incorporates the last two characteristics listed here, while offering a compact format if we look at the release of smartphones in 2020. Yet Apple should name it iPhone 9.
The iPhone range in 2020, in which the iPhone 9 should replace the iPhone 8.
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Here we can understand the logic of Apple: this iPhone takes the design of the iPhone 8 and is therefore placed between the latter and the iPhone “ten” which marks the arrival of the new design. So it’s an iPhone 9 and that’s good: Apple has never launched an iPhone 9 until today. This also allows the brand to avoid direct comparisons with the iPhone SE and its particularly compact 4-inch screen.
Features: an overpowered Apple A13 chip?
Like the iPhone SE before it, the special feature of the iPhone 9 would therefore be to offer latest generation components with an old design. In our case, this means that the iPhone 9 would integrate an Apple A13 Bionic chip engraved in 7 nm, which we find in the iPhone 11 today.
We hope that this will allow the iPhone 9 to offer the same excellent autonomy as the iPhone 11. This would above all allow the smartphone to run all applications and all games with extreme fluidity.
The screen should consist ofa 4.7 inch IPS LCD panel with a definition of 1280 x 720 pixels which should guarantee the smartphone excellent performance in the most demanding games on the platform. Indeed, the Apple A13 chip has been calibrated for the 2,688 x 1,242 pixel screen. iPhone 11 Pro Max, a definition much higher than that expected on the iPhone 9.
What is the price of the iPhone 9?
The selling price of the iPhone 9 should be one of the key features of the smartphone. According to rumors about the smartphone, it would be launched less than 500 euros in Europe.
It should in any case replace the iPhone 8 in the Apple range. The latter is currently marketed from 539 euros by the brand for the 64 GB version.
If these rumors are confirmed, it will be possible to acquire an iPhone with the latest generation of processor, and therefore updates for the coming years, for around 500 euros. Today, to benefit from these elements, it is towards iPhone 11 from 809 euros you have to turn. The iPhone 9 could therefore easily find its audience.
When will the iPhone 9 be announced?
All the rumors around the iPhone 9 point to a presentation conference in March, with production to start in February. Problem, Coronavirus epidemic in China sharply reduced smartphone production, especially at Foxconn, and the iPhone 9 could therefore be rejected by Apple.
It was also at this conference thatApple to Unveil New Apple Tag Product, as well as’a new version of the iPad Pro with a “Pro” photo module.
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