Apple is reportedly once again working on a next-generation iPhone SE, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, despite his previous reports
that it had canceled work on the phone. In
a Twitter thread, Kuo says the company has “restarted” the project and that the iPhone SE 4 will feature an OLED display — a first for the company’s budget line — as well as a 5G modem designed by Apple instead of longtime supplier Qualcomm.
He predicts that the phone will more or less be “a minor modification of the 6.1-inch iPhone 14” and that it’ll go into production at the beginning of 2024, presumably coinciding with a release later that year. It’s unclear if the phone will have some of the iPhone 14’s premium features like
Emergency SOS via satellite, Face ID, and a dual-camera system with night mode, all of which
the 2022 third-gen iPhone SE currently lacks. Kuo does, however, mention that Apple will have to “overcome the technical obstacles related to mmWave and satellite communications” when it comes to its modem before it brings it to its mainline phones.