TechPhonesiPhonesiPhone SE tipped for the biggest design upgrade everA new report suggests that the Dynamic Island is coming to Apple’s most affordable iPhone. Legitimate leak or just wishful thinking?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesiPhonesiPhone SE tipped for the biggest design upgrade everA new report suggests that the Dynamic Island is coming to Apple’s most affordable iPhone. Legitimate leak or just wishful thinking?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
A new report suggests that the Dynamic Island is coming to Apple’s most affordable iPhone. Legitimate leak or just wishful thinking?
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Appleis widely expected to refresh theiPhoneSE this year, and as we reported back in Novemberit’s expected to be a departure from the existing design, which is getting awfully old-looking. The SE is largely identical to the iPhone 8 from seven years ago, and the current model has been around since 2022.
According to a new report, Apple is now planning the biggest design change to the SE since it abandoned its initial iPhone 4-esque design. As previously rumoured the camera assembly will be a single-lens lozenge, but this new rumour says that round the front we’ll see something making its debut on the iPhone SE: the Dynamic Island, the cut-out for cameras and sensors that Apple now uses as part of the iPhone 15 interface.
How reliable is this iPhone SE rumour?
The new report comes from tipsterMajin Bu on X, who also posted theiPhone 16 batterieswe reported on yesterday.
According to the post, “Based on what has been reported to me, the iPhone SE could have a design very similar to that of the current iPhone 16 still in development. The new iPhone SE will most likely have a single camera instead of the double one of the iPhone 16 models, otherwise it seems that the dynamic island is confirmed, and the dimensions are similar to those of an iPhone XR.”
My money’s on this being informed speculation rather than a leak. The iPhone SE is due an update and a 2024 or 2025 refresh is likely, but the only thing we can say with any certainty is that it’ll definitely be USB-C. Apple didn’t replace the notch in its best-selling iPhones until the launch of the iPhone 15, so while the prospect of a Dynamic Island-packing SE is certainly appealing it may not be a priority for Apple just yet: while of course anything is possible the iPhone SE has typically inherited fairly old hardware from the rest of the iPhone range, and an iPhone 15-esque design doesn’t fit that pattern.
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