For anyone who’s not a fan of how massive smartphones have become, Apple’s iPhone SE was a welcome entrant in 2016. The $400 phone had the same design as Apple’s iPhone 5, first released in 2012, but with modern innards and a fingerprint scanner. It’s thinner and cheaper than any other iPhone Apple sells, measuring 2.31 inches across, compared to the iPhone 8’s 2.65 inches, or the iPhone X’s 2.79 inches. So it will come as good news for small-handed Apple fans that the company seems to be planning to update the SE this year.
For anyone who’s not a fan of how massive smartphones have become, Apple $AAPL’s iPhone SE was a welcome entrant in 2016. The $400 phone had the same design as Apple’s iPhone 5, first released in 2012, but with modern innards and a fingerprint scanner. It’s thinner and cheaper than any other iPhone Apple sells, measuring 2.31 inches across, compared to the iPhone 8’s 2.65 inches, or the iPhone X $TWTR’s 2.79 inches. So it will come as good news for small-handed Apple fans that the company seems to be planning to update the SE this year.
A report from the Chinese technology publication DigiTimes today, Jan. 26, suggests that
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The new phone is expected to launch in May or June. Apple wasn’t immediately available to comment.
