Apple’s next iPhone SE might get an OLED upgrade

The 4th-generation iPhone SE mightiness beryllium getting an OLED display, a caller rumor bubbling up from its proviso concatenation suggests. The institution has started ordering OLED displays from some BOE and LG Display to outfit the telephone with, according to Nikkei Asia.

The anticipation that Apple was switching its cheapest telephone distant from LCD tech has been astir for implicit a year but Nikkei’s study suggests Apple is gearing up to merchandise a caller iPhone SE successful a fewer months. Apple could commencement producing the phones adjacent period successful mentation for an aboriginal 2025 launch, Macrumors writes.

Display tech aside, it’s expected that the iPhone SE volition beryllium in an iPhone 14 chassis with — and I’m genuinely atrocious to constitute this, arsenic an iPhone Mini instrumentality — a 6.1-inch display. It could besides usage Face ID, alternatively than Touch ID, and whitethorn person an Action Button. It’s apt that it volition only person a azygous camera, conscionable arsenic past SE phones have.

The iPhone SE 4 is besides expected to enactment Apple Intelligence. That whitethorn beryllium the astir consequential rumor; it suggests the instrumentality volition beryllium much susceptible than the iPhone 15, which isn’t getting Apple’s on-device multimodal AI for a assortment of reasons, including the information it lone has 6GB of RAM.