All signs indicate that it is another big week for Apple. It is unusual for February, generally a dark and cold month for Cupertino observers. Apple likes to start in spring, summer and fall, but since Apple abandoned igamesnews San Francisco, he usually hibernates during the winter months. There was precisely a February event in Apple's history and which was constantly the launch of the Hi-Fi iPod on February 19.
Of course, the launch of this week is not an Apple event in the usual sense of media and hyperbola, sketches and specifications and bento grids showing new features. All we have to do is a short and cryptic tweet published last week by Tim Cook: “Prepare to meet the most recent family member. Wednesday, February 19. #AppleLaNCH »It is an Applelaunch hashtag, not Hashtag Appleevent while it tweeted last spring before the loose bash. Hashtag Bigdifference.
Rather than a event strangely in early spring, the most recent member of Apple's family will probably be announced via a press release and an update of the company's website. One of the company's lower touch launches, but has always teased almost a week in advance. It is the same kind of anticipation of compromise, without suspending expectations beyond what can be met – that we saw last year when Greg Joswiak advised us to “Mac” our calendars for a week of Announcement measures without event. Is this a model for the way Apple will launch more of its products in the future? Maybe.
In all cases, as with Mac Week, the probable absence of a conventional press event should not be considered as an admission of insignificance. We are almost sure, despite the illustrations of Airtag reissue, that the family member in question is the last iPhone SE (or 16th if a rumor is correct), and as we have explained many times, It is an important and a precious addition to the Cupertino ecosystem – the one that will change the iPhone range in a main way. In a sense, this helps to close an ready-made era, with the USB-C port of the new handset likely to resolve a big headache in the EU and to mark the end of the port of lightning in the United States and another , it helps to inaugurate a new one: Apple Intelligence on a phone less than $ 500 would be a change of game to lead the adoption of an AI platform that plays a desperate catch-up game and start to box.
We don't know how Apple will ask for the new SE. But if it is anywhere near the previous model of $ 429, we could look at a real good deal: a real low budget phone that we can recommend from all heart. The 4th generation SE will boast of a set of killers, not because Apple feels generous, but because he needs to support the Apple Intelligence. So we look at an A17 pro chip and 8 GB of RAM, minimum. At this level, at least, it will gain the same weight as an iPhone 15 pro.
This compares the device to a phone that was at the end of the end of the end of 2023. But compared to the 3rd generation SE, which was released at the beginning of 2022 and was disappointing even, the SE 4 should be a step forward massive. Its screen will develop, lose the obstruction of a home button and see an upgrade of the LCD screen (the last in the Apple iPhone range) to OLED. The rear camera will become much more powerful (48 MP is planned). Basic storage is likely to go from an inadequate of 64 GB to 128 GB. We even think that the long -awaited 5G modem of Apple, providing improvements in energy and battery, will do its debut on this phone, six Solid months before he reached a flagship iPhone in the fall. For those who have been waiting for this update for three years, this should represent an almost irresistible purchase.
For understandable reasons, Apple likes to talk about its high -end products. They are the most proud of them, and the most likely to win on Android or Windows Waveres. A low budget phone will never get the same red carpet treatment as a flagship product. But a substantial upgrade to the will affect much more people much more than a recast of the iPhone 17 pro camera. It is a question of increasing the reference offer and providing a high level of design and processing power to those who cannot afford to pay silver money for a new smartphone every fall.
From Wednesday, older clumsy iPhones on the Apple Store will begin to be removed. Apple fans on a budget will no longer have to settle; They will be able to afford a relatively new design, first -rate components and access to all software features on the way to the next few years. It's huge. Event or no event, I am really excited.
Unless you know it's a new pavilion.
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