While it’s unlikely that we would see a new iPhone SE coming this year, it looks like there could be one coming in 2025. And it’s likely that it would come with the iPhone XR redesign, but instead of using an LCD panel, it’ll be OLED. Bringing all of Apple’s currently sold iPhones onto OLED.
Now, since we are still almost two years away from this happening, rumors aren’t as concrete right now. So things could change, but the speculation right now among analysts is that it’ll sport that iPhone XR design with OLED. And that would likely push the price of the iPhone SE up even higher.
We’ve heard multiple times that the iPhone SE4 had been cancelled, and things have changed. So a 2025 release date does make a lot of sense, if things are still up in the air, in July 2023.
The iPhone SE is surprisingly popular
Despite using an older design with newer internals, the iPhone SE has been pretty popular since it’s debut in 2016. It’s not a model that Apple updates every year. In fact, there was four years between the first and second generation model. The third-generation model came out sooner, mostly because carriers wanted a 5G model. But despite all of that, the SE is actually pretty popular.
However, if Apple does need to raise the price on the iPhone SE due to it using OLED now, that might kill off its market. Most people buy the iPhone SE because it has that home button with Touch ID, and because its cheap. While this new rumored iPhone SE would get rid of both of these reasons. The iPhone SE already costs $479, so it wouldn’t be surprising to see it jump to well above $500. Which then, gets it close to the newer iPhones, like the iPhone 14 and upcoming iPhone 15.
2023-07-05 15:05:09