Apple Has Started Trial Production of iPhone SE Successor: Report

In spite of no official word from Apple, awhole bunch of leaksover the past several months have all but confirmed the company’s plans to launch at least one – maybe even two – successors to the iPhone SE this year. Now, a new report out of China suggests that the company may have already started trial production of its next-gen affordable smartphones, rumored to be marketed as the iPhone 9.

According to Chinese tech blog,MyDrivers, the report comes from unnamed ‘industry sources’ in China, who further claimed that mass production of the device will start in mid-February before it isofficially announced in March. The company is also reportedly expecting total shipments for the phone to exceed 30 million units globally.

The report also reiterates that the device will benamed iPhone 9 instead of iPhone SE 2and, would be priced under 3,000 yuan (around Rs. 30,000) in China. As pointed out byGizmoChina, that would be in line with the pricing of the original iPhone SE, which was priced at $399 in the US, although, it had a significantly higher price-tag in India.

Apple has long been rumored to launch itssuccessor to the iPhone SEin early 2020, but recent reports have also suggested that Apple might launch agrand total of six iPhonesthis year, including not one, but two low-cost iPhone SE successors that aresaid to come with an iPhone 8-like form-factor, but with the latest hardware under-the-hood, including the company’s latest A13 Bionic processor, alongside 3GB of LPDDR4X RAM and up to 128GB of storage, although, it’s unlikely to have 3D Touch.

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Kishalaya Kundu

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