Apple Says It Will Showcase a New ‘Household Member’ That’s Probably the iPhone SE 4

Apple is ready to launch a brand new “member of the household” subsequent week, Wednesday, Feb. 19. What might it presumably be? Since there wasn’t an iPhone SE 4 announcement this week, we count on Apple to showcase its new mid-range telephone replace. We nonetheless have questions.

Cook dinner posted his brief message to Twitter together with the basic Apple teaser picture of an Apple brand swirling with a chrome-like end. This might level to the colorway of the upcoming iPhone SE refresh. A number of main Apple leakers promised the Cupertino company’s $500 device would launch this week. As an alternative, Apple got here out and shared how Apple TV+ is coming to Android units for the primary time. That’s actually one technique to shock us, Mr. Cook dinner.

Apple launched its final iPhone SE in 2022. That machine was the final time the iPhone had a bodily Contact ID button and huge bezels. Multiple iPhone SE 4 leaks point out the brand new, cheaper iPhone mannequin could have a wall-to-wall display, although the jury remains to be out on whether or not it’s going to have a notch or the iPhone 14’s Dynamic Island. Both means, the subsequent telephone ought to help FaceID.

We additionally count on the subsequent iPhone SE to sport the A18 chip featured within the iPhone 16. The opposite huge rumor is that the subsequent telephone might develop a modem in-house fairly than counting on Qualcomm. If the iPhone maker’s subsequent machine will help Apple Intelligence, it should embrace no less than 8 GB of RAM. With that in thoughts, the subsequent “particular version” mannequin might value nearer to $500, in line with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The final iPhone SE launched for $430.

It would nonetheless be Apple’s least expensive cell providing. All of the conjecture about Apple Intelligence provides to rumors that the subsequent iPhone might drop the “SE” and as a substitute be renamed “iPhone 16E.” Apple normally doesn’t dedicate as a lot time and a focus to its cheaper telephones as its regular flagships. This yr could possibly be completely different. Apple has mentioned it’s going to unleash the revised, AI-capable Siri by April.

Samsung simply acquired completed with its Galaxy S25 launch, together with the much-touted cross-app AI capabilities. In our exams, we discovered the AI could be occasionally useful, although solely when given comparatively easy duties working throughout two apps. Something greater than that, and the AI might begin making errors. Apple has promised very comparable options for its AI choices, and maybe the iPhone SE will present us some options that lastly beat Google’s Gemini to the punch. To be utterly sincere, we’re not holding our breath.