Enlarge / The iPhone 4S, 5, 6, and 6 Plus. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Reports of a new small-screened iPhone have been floating around for a while, but today the normally reliable Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac has published details about it gathered from “sources who have used the upcoming iPhone.”
According to those sources, the so-called “iPhone 5SE” will look and act a lot like a downsized iPhone 6. The 4-inch screen (and presumably its 1136×640 resolution) will be retained, but the edges of the phone and the front glass will be curved instead of squared off as they are in the iPhone 5 and 5S. The device will also reportedly include a host of internal upgrades originally introduced in the iPhone 6: an Apple A8 SoC, a new 8MP rear camera and 1.2MP front camera, NFC and Apple Pay compatibility, and the M8 motion coprocessor and barometer tracking feature. For a preview of how the phone might perform, take a look at the sixth-generation iPod Touch, which also pairs an Apple A8 chip with a 4-inch screen.
The 5SE will also reportedly share a handful of components and features with the more recent iPhone 6S: 867Mbps Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, 300Mbps LTE, a rose gold color option, and the Live Photos feature. The phone will allegedly not inherit the pressure-sensitive 3D Touch display from the 6S, and it will apparently include a headphone jack that may be missing from the upcoming “iPhone 7.”
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