iPhone SE 4 Rumored to Launch Early Next Year With OLED Display, 48MP Camera, and More

[MacRumors]

The fourth-generation iPhone SE will offer a series of major upgrades over the current model, the leaker known as "Ice Universe" claims.

The information was listed in a post on Weibo, which also detailed the specifications of the iPhone 17 lineup. As previously rumored, the fourth-generation iPhone SE is expected to feature Face ID and USB-C, marking a major upgrade from current and previous models that have all featured a Touch ID Home button and a Lightning port.

The device's display will apparently grow in size from 4.7 inches to 6.06 inches and feature an OLED panel for the first time. The new iPhone SE is also expected to tout an A18 chip like the iPhone 16 lineup, 6GB to 8GB of LPDDR5 memory, an aluminum chassis, and a single rear 48-megapixel camera. The fourth-generation iPhone SE will apparently launch between March and May of 2025 with a price point of $499 to $549. The current model launched in March 2022 for $429.

Article Link: iPhone SE 4 Rumored to Launch Early Next Year With OLED Display, 48MP Camera, and More

 

[WarmWinterHat]

I wonder if it'll have satellite messaging?

That's the only feature that might convince me to upgrade my 13 Pro.

 

[Joelj]

RIP people who don't want/can't use an OLED screen

 

[Havalo]

Lost me at

The device's display will apparently grow in size from 4.7 inches to 6.06 inches

 

[Tripps9000]

Oh wow I guy on YouTube just released a video about this phone just about the same time it appeared on here is that a coincidence?

 

[brofkand]

Too expensive.

 

[klasma]

There will be little reason for most people to buy the regular iPhone over that.

 

[Fyrus]

If these specs are correct, I wouldn’t see a lot of reason to pick up an iphone 14 or even 15 at that point. Unless those lower in price by a lot.

 

[klasma]

Table from the original post:

 

[WB2Colorado]

I think it’s a mistake not keeping the $429 price. I would honestly prefer that they use the iPhone 13 mini as the base for the new SE if it means they can keep the price the same as the older models.

 

[klasma]

I would honestly prefer that they use the iPhone 13 mini as the base for the new SE if it means they can keep the price the same as the older models.

I believe that would rather make it more expensive.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Great
Yet another huge rectangle

 

[cosmicc]

My XR is struggling to run the latest iOS 18 Beta. The SE 4 can’t come out soon enough. Not too keen on the price increase but I’ll hold out that those rumors end up dead in water like the previous iPhone price increases have.

 

[freezelighter]

The main purpose of iPhone SE is to be a small phone.
If it's size is increasing, they failed.

 

[WB2Colorado]

The main purpose of iPhone SE is to be a small phone.
If it's size is increasing, they failed.

The main purpose of the SE is to be a budget phone. it was just a coincidence that it was a small phone because it used older iPhone designs.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

The main purpose of iPhone SE is to be a small phone.
If it's size is increasing, they failed.

The main purpose was to be cheap (relative to the other iPhones).

The purple of the mini was to be a small phone.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I'm not sure anybody knows the actual "purpose" of the SE line

I'd argue it was simply to offer "another option" (of any kind basically) out of the parts and R&D sunk cost bin

 

[multipasser]

Confusing naming. Why not just make it a 15 SE, or 16 SE

 

[Moonjumper]

I think it’s a mistake not keeping the $429 price. I would honestly prefer that they use the iPhone 13 mini as the base for the new SE if it means they can keep the price the same as the older models.

The mini always felt like it should have been an SE type of device for those who need to stay connected, but don't live on their phone. My screen time is mostly on my Mac and iPad (both with large screens), with my iPhone just for messaging and quick checks while out and about. Device size is more important than screen size to me, and don't need the latest of anything except OS, just something in the Apple ecosystem.

 

[Tripps9000]

Nobody knows the actual "purpose" of the SE line

I'd argue it was simply to offer "another option" (of any kind basically) out of the parts and R&D sunk cost bin

The purpose is to reuse old parts sell for cheap🤣😂

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Confusing naming. Why not just make it a 15 SE, or 16 SE

I think it will just the SE, same as it is today.

 

[turbineseaplane]

The mini always felt like it should have been an SE type of device for those who need to stay connected, but don't live on their phone. My screen time is mostly on my Mac and iPad (both with large screens), with my iPhone just for messaging and quick checks while out and about. Device size is more important than screen size to me, and don't need the latest of anything except OS, just something in the Apple ecosystem.

This is what frustrates me about their approach to iPhones
All these rectangles that are big, bigger and huge with barely any differences between them.

Apple aren't even trying to make iOS products for different customer needs or preferences.

All they are doing is trying to create price points of the exact same thing to get folks to "buy something"... "anything!"

 

[klasma]

Great
Yet another huge rectangle

They could at least make it a SEptangle.

 

[klasma]

The main purpose of the SE is to be a budget phone. it was just a coincidence that it was a small phone because it used older iPhone designs.

The main purpose was to be cheap (relative to the other iPhonesy).

Not true: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2016...Most-Powerful-Phone-with-a-Four-inch-Display/

Well, I guess they could market the SE 4 as “the most powerful phone with a 6.06-inch display”.

 

[satchmo]

I think it will just the SE, same as it is today.

Yup. With a notation of version i.e. 4th generation