The delay of the launch of this new smartphone is confirmed.
From the Korean medium The Elec have brought to light very relevant information about a future Apple smartphone. We are talking about the fourth generation iPhone SE that will finally incorporate a front with a screen OLED and a chip with connectivity 5G. But unfortunately, it’s not good news.
Apparently, Apple has postponed the development of its iPhone SE 4 from 2024 to 2025. Two years will pass until Apple presents this new special edition terminal. But everything indicates that it is not Apple’s fault, but one of its suppliers…
The reasons for the delay of the iPhone SE 4 until 2025
Currently all the latest generation iPhone models have an OLED panel. Except 3rd generation iPhone SEwhich has a 4.7-inch LCD screen.
Manufacturing such a number of OLED panels is not an easy task. In fact, it is rumored that the blame for the delay of the launch of the iPhone SE 4 to 2025 lies with BOE. The supplier company cannot produce the necessary quantity of OLED panels for the development of this smartphone.
Yoon Dae Jeongan analyst at UBI Research, has stated that BOE is suffering certain performance issues with the panels of the iPhone 15 line of this 2023. So bringing the fourth generation iPhone SE next year would be practically an impossible task.
According to the information that they shuffle from BGRBOE is the exclusive provider of OLED panels for the iPhone SE. Neither Samsung nor LG have shown interest in producing this type of low-cost panels.
But given the problems that manufacturing company BOE has been subjected to, there may be a chance that Samsung and LG can offer solutions for the next iPhone SE.
What new features will the iPhone SE 4 incorporate
All the possible news that we know about the future special edition smartphone from the Cupertino firm have come from the popular analyst Ming Chi Kuo.
According to his words, in addition to including a OLED screenthe iPhone SE 4 will also have 5G connectivity. Two of the most important factors in the industry today.
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[Update] Apple has restarted the iPhone SE 4 and will adopt an in-house 5G baseband chip. The significant decline in Qualcomm’s Apple orders in the foreseeable future is a foregone conclusion. https://t.co/0MeZDFnbzg— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) February 27, 2023
We don’t know much more about the fourth-generation iPhone SE. It will be priced much lower than the base model iPhone 14 and may have a redesign in some aspects such as flat edges or the notches.