Apple has launched its final inexpensive iPhone SE in 2022, and the earlier one earlier than that in 2020, but it surely seems like the corporate will skip a yr this time round and launch the subsequent one in 2025. That is what a brand new report from Korea reiterates right now.
When it does launch, the subsequent iPhone SE can have a function beforehand unseen on this inexpensive vary: an OLED display. All the earlier iPhone SE fashions have been fitted with LCD panels as a substitute, however now the most cost effective iPhone will lastly be making the bounce.
The report claims three show makers are at the moment combating for Apple’s orders for the subsequent iPhone SE, with Samsung providing (maybe surprisingly) the bottom worth per panel of $30, BOE providing a worth of $35, whereas Tianma went with $40. None have received the contract but, as Apple has reportedly countered by providing simply $20 per panel, so negotiations are nonetheless ongoing.
The panels for use within the subsequent SE will likely be just like these seen within the iPhone 13 and iPhone 14. So we should always anticipate the 2025 iPhone SE to have a 6.1-inch display with 1170×2532 decision, 1,200-nit peak brightness, and possibly even Ceramic Defend glass on high (although that is not confirmed and might be skipped to avoid wasting cash on the complete package deal).
At the moment’s Korean report says each Samsung Show and BOE have secured good yields for these panels, whereas Tianma just isn’t more likely to be a critical contender as its tech lags behind the competitors. Samsung’s benefit (and possibly the explanation it supplied the most cost effective worth) is that it was making the iPhone 14 panels so it may use the entire tooling for that, and even current panel stock if there’s any.
Samsung can even afford to go low for the SE in a bid to snub BOE since it may make extra earnings off of the panels for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 sequence. In the meantime, BOE wants all the extra orders it may get, since final yr it misplaced alternative to extend its OLED panel manufacturing capability when it confronted difficulties making iPhone 15 panels, thus gifting away extra orders to Samsung Show.
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