2024-10-02 15:47:33
According to reports, Apple will launch its entry-level iPhone SE phone on the market in early 2025. Other devices should also get an upgrade.
Apple is preparing to produce its redesigned iPhone SE. This is reported by well-known “Bloomberg” reporter and Apple expert Mark Gurman, citing “people familiar with the matter.” Accordingly, the group wants to bring the new cell phone – which has the code name V95 – onto the market in the first few months of 2025.
Details about the appearance of the iPhone SE are also known: Apple is said to have said goodbye to the home button at the bottom of its entry-level smartphone. Like the company’s current smartphones, the iPhone SE will be equipped with an edge-to-edge display that extends across the entire front.
In addition to a changed appearance that is supposed to be similar to that of the iPhone 14 with its recess called a notch on the top edge of the display, the device should also be able to keep up with current smartphones on the inside. According to Gurman, the iPhone SE even gets functions that are only reserved for the company’s top devices: Apple’s AI functions “Apple Intelligence”.
This is the name for Apple’s AI offensive. Behind this are numerous applications that the group wants to integrate deeply into its devices and that are intended to simplify users’ lives.
According to Gurman, the updated look of the iPhone SE should help Apple regain market share in the budget cell phone sector. In China in particular, competition from local providers is fierce. Apple has lost market share to companies like Huawei and Xiaomi.
In addition to the iPhone SE, the iPad models will also receive an upgrade, says Gurman. But only inside. Accordingly, Apple will bring an improved iPad Mini onto the market this year.
The company is also preparing an “updated version of its Magic Keyboard accessories codenamed R307 and R308 for the 11-inch and 13-inch versions of the new Air,” it said. These should receive some functions of the iPad Pro keyboard. Which one exactly is not known.
Apple is also said to have revised its Mac computers. According to Gurman, there will be a new Mac Mini, MacBook Pros and iMacs that Apple has equipped with the M4 processor. The group wants to bring the devices onto the market this year. All other Macs will receive the M4 chip next year.