Apple is making last minute preparations for the mid-week launch of what’s expected to be the iPhone SE 4. There again it might have a different name.
It will launch in the early on Thursday, AEDT.
There’s been lots of ongoing speculation about the new phone.
According to reports, there will be no home button, the new model will support Apple intelligence, and it will contain an Apple developed cellular modem chip, not a modem chip built by Qualcomm.
A USB-C charging port – not an Apple Lightning connector, Apple’s A18 chip, and an OLED edge-to-edge screen are other predictions.
Today, the tom-toms are beating afresh with a rumour that Apple has changed the phone’s naming convention and called it the iPhone 16e.
This rumour has been around since late last year.
Popular Chinese social media account Fixed Focus Digital suggested the renaming to an iPhone 16e on December 13.
Another leaker Majin Bu, followed with a post on X on December 31.
“Based on what my source has reported, it seems that the new iPhone that Apple will unveil in 2025 will not be called iPhone SE4, but iPhone 16E,” the post says.
“It should feature a design similar to the iPhone 14, with an OLED display and an action button. The available colours will be white and black.”
It could all be a lot of hot air, as is often the case with leakers’ posts. MacRumours says “Fixed Focus Digital” “doesn’t have a very established track record with Apple rumours.
Nevertheless, a name change is floating afresh despite the evidence being threadbare, if even that.
