Apple’s next iPhone SE might get an OLED upgrade

The fourth-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 nan telephone with, according to Nikkei Asia.

The anticipation that Apple was switching its cheapest telephone distant from LCD tech has been rumored for complete 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 nan phones adjacent period successful mentation for an early 2025 launch, MacRumors writes.

Display tech aside, it’s expected that nan iPhone SE will beryllium in an iPhone 14 chassis pinch — and I’m genuinely sorry 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 will only person a azygous camera, conscionable for illustration past SE phones.

The iPhone SE 4 is besides expected to support Apple Intelligence. That whitethorn beryllium nan astir consequential rumor; it suggests nan instrumentality will beryllium much tin than nan iPhone 15, which isn’t getting Apple’s on-device multimodal AI for a assortment of reasons, including nan truth that it only has 6GB of RAM.