Apple could launch the iPhone 17e next month – is | Tech News

Apple has lastly confirmed it is internet hosting an occasion for media and influencer on March 4 in New York and London. Although the tech giant is tight-lipped about what it’s for, when invites are despatched out on this method, the company all the time launches new {hardware}.

Rumour has it Apple is about to introduce new decrease-price (for Apple!) gadgets, together with a base iPad and all-new MacBook that could are available vivid colors and value nicely below $1,000.

But rumours additionally recommend Apple may even use this occasion to announce the iPhone 17e, its entry-degree iPhone successor to 2025’s iPhone 16e. The 16e changed the iPhone SE vary, with UK costs ranging from £599.

That’s not precisely low-cost, however it provides consumers a much less expensive option to get a model new iPhone if they will’t afford the £799 iPhone 17. The 16e cut back on options, utilizing the similar screen design with notch as the iPhone 14, with just one rear digicam and no MagSafe help.

If we’re about to see an upgraded iPhone 17e, it could nicely have simply been uncovered by YouTuber and perennial Apple-botherer Jon Prosser. In one of his newest videos, Prosser has put collectively renders of what he says is the iPhone 17e, revealing some of the modifications he believes Apple has made.

In the short video, Prosser says the iPhone 17e will run on a “slightly binned” A19 chip, the similar as the iPhone 17, gain MagSafe, and doubtlessly have the Dynamic Island characteristic as an alternative of outdated-model notch.

You’ll need to take Prosser’s video with a somewhat massive grain of salt, although. First of all, on this video printed on February 12, he says Apple will launch the iPhone 17e “next week”. That time has come and gone, with no signal of any announcement (Apple confirmed its March 4 occasion on February 16).

Prosser additionally reveals off a 17e design with the Dynamic Island, however waits proper till the finish of the video to say he’s not really sure about that characteristic, and that Apple may simply keep the notch of the 16e.

Elsewhere, the single digicam on the back is mentioned to stay at 48MP however with higher low mild efficiency, whereas the telephone could are available black and white, with potential for a lavender color, although even Prosser admits which may not occur however that he heard it was no less than examined internally at Apple.

The screen is mentioned to be 6.1-inches, with Apple sticking with 60Hz refresh charge. Given the iPhone 17 lastly received the increase to Apple’s 120Hz ProMotion, the iPhone 17e can be the solely iPhone accessible with out ProMotion – as the iPhone 16e at present is.

If you need to see if the iPhone 17e exists, the money is on us all discovering out on March 4.