Super-high-quality renders show the strangely familiar design of Apple’s 2023 iPhone SE 4.
Apple’s next big iPhone has just been leaked in all its glory, but before you get too excited… or accuse us of using deliberately vague wording to get you to read our full story below, we should point out that this is not a member of the Family premium phone for the fall of 2023 that we are talking about.
instead of that,
Front Page Tech’s Jon Prosser completely blows the lid off a slightly more modest device than both “vanillas”
iPhone 14 and
iPhone 15 today when many analysts and insiders expect it to see the light of day at some point early next year.
For a 2023 product, of course, the fourth-generation iPhone SE sure looks… dated (yes, already), taking more than a few design cues from 2018, yes, 2018.
iPhone XR.
Long live the comma!
There’s really no way around it – the iPhone SE (2023) will look
right same as the 6.1-inch XR, “borrowing” everything from, well, that screen diagonal to the noticeable but not too thick side and bottom bezels to the extra-wide notch that houses all the components needed for
AppleThe Face ID system works flawlessly without the elegance of the aforementioned Dynamic Island double hole punch system.
Unsurprisingly, this means the iPhone SE 4 will draw
the fury of the European Parliament by keeping Apple’s proprietary Lightning port alive while presumably “cloning” another
iPhone XR specifications and features such as screen resolution, battery capacity and the 12MP resolution of the single rear camera shown today.
Also revealed today (in beautiful detail) are the expected Midnight, Starlight, and (Product)RED iPhone SE flavors of next year’s generation, which happen to be the exact same color options of the current iPhone SE edition, released earlier this year with the powerful Apple A15 Bionic processor under the hood.
iPhone SE 4 – likely specifications and prices
Prosser himself claims he’s been sitting on these product images for “a hot minute” awaiting confirmation from experts like Ross Young, and while nothing’s sure until it’s… sure, this potentially divisive aesthetic approach to the 2023 iPhone is pretty much as close to a deal as we can get in the absence of an official Apple announcement.
Unfortunately, very little else is guaranteed right now, which doesn’t mean we can’t speculate that the fourth-gen iPhone SE will likely have the same A16 SoC as the
iPhone 14 Pro and
14 Pro Maxas well as some hot new camera capabilities… of sorts.
With built-in 5G support, much more screen space than screen space
iPhone SE (2022)with no fingerprint sensor, no headphone jack, and no USB-C port, we’d expect this thing to start around $500, so under
iPhone 12 on Apple’s current totem pole, though that’s obviously little more than a guess. And yes, we did
guessing the starting configuration will still offer the same old 64 gigs of internal storage as the iPhone XR and iPhone SE 3.
