iPhone SE 4 renders suggest this might be the iPhone XR 2 in all but name
More XR than SE
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We’ve been hearing for a while thatApplemight change up the design for theiPhone SE 4, and now unofficial renders have shown us how that design might look.
You can see some of these renders below, created by Ian Zelbo and based on information from an anonymous source; provided to famed leaker Jon Prosser, ofFront Page Tech.
They show a phone with a notch (the wider notch iPhones featured before the 20% reduction introduced on theiPhone 13series), no home button, and small bezels. So that’s a big – butwidely rumored– change from theiPhone SE (2022). The phone will apparently come in Midnight (black), Starlight (white), and Product RED shades (the only three colors available on the last two generations of SE too), all of which can be seen here, and it’s said to have a 6.1-inch screen.
You can also see that there’s a single-lens camera on the back, but no details for this were provided. It’s likely though that this new SE will rely on a 12MP sensor, given that most iPhone cameras do, outside the 48MP primary snapper on theiPhone 14 ProandiPhone 14 Pro Max.
No other specs have been included either, but visually this phone will look remarkably familiar if you’ve been keeping up with Apple’s handset launches over the last few years.
Analysis: an iPhone XR with more power
Given the presence of a notch and the apparent 6.1-inch screen, the iPhone SE 4 – as shown here – has a lot in common with theiPhone 14. But where that phone has straight sides, here they’re curved, rendering it almost indistinguishable from the iPhone XR.
That phone from 2018 – which you can see at the top of this article – also has a 6.1-inch screen, a notch, and curved sides, plus a single-lens camera on the rear.
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However, under the hood the iPhone SE 4 is bound to be better, since the iPhone SE (2022) already has a more powerful chipset than the iPhone XR, along with 5G support, which that older phone lacks. For the iPhone SE 4, we expect an even newer chipset, and there’s no chance that 5G support is going anywhere.
Given the visual similarities and the upgraded internals though, it seems like this could be more of an iPhone XR 2 than an iPhone SE 4. Not least because, with the rising prices of the SE line in general, and Apple’s recent trend towardspushing prices up even more outside the US, this probably won’t be as affordable as SE phones once were.
The iPhone XR itself was positioned as a budget iPhone, but it still cost a fair amount, so from pricing to design to specs, the iPhone SE 4 looks likely to follow in that phone’s footsteps. In other words, this probably won’t qualify for ourbest cheap phoneslist, but it might at least sport a slightly less dated design than the current SE.
James is a freelance phones, tablets and wearables writer and sub-editor at TechRadar. He has a love for everything ‘smart’, from watches to lights, and can often be found arguing with AI assistants or drowning in the latest apps. James also contributes to 3G.co.uk, 4G.co.uk and 5G.co.uk and has written for T3, Digital Camera World, Clarity Media and others, with work on the web, in print and on TV.
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