News & Reviews:   4-inch iphone

The Apple iPhone 12 series will finally be announced next month and we can’t really wait for it anymore. With rumours circulating the Internet for months, the series is probably the most highly anticipated smartphones in 2020. Now, we’re going to add a new one to the list before the launch happens. It is reported that the smallest iPhone 12 will be called “iPhone 12 mini”.

Back in April, there was a rumour that a diagram for an iPhone 12 without a notch was found in the iOS 14 coding. In truth, this is likely for a device Apple has planned next year and not the iPhone 12. Why? Because a new leak shows us that the notch on the iPhone 12's display is the same as the one from last year.

The much-anticipated iPhone 12 series is getting closer as months passed by. Rumours about the Apple smartphone series have been showing up on the Internet by slowly revealing the tech specs of the devices. Today, a new one has come out as it suggests the 5.4-inch iPhone 12 is going to be smaller than the iPhone SE 2020.

Apple has just launched their most powerful 4-inch smartphone with the Apple iPhone SE. Featuring an Apple iPhone 5S design with new colours like gold and rose gold, the iPhone SE will likely replace the iPhone 5S from $399 (RM1611) for the 16GB storage version and $499 (RM2015) for the 64GB storage version.

It will offer the latest Apple A9 processor with M9 motion co-processor, a 4-inch Retina display with 1136 x 640 pixel resolution, 12MP iSight camera, Touch ID fingerprint scanner and more. No Malaysia release dates yet but it is expected to go on pre-order on 24 May 2016 and arrive in 110 countries by the end of May (which should include Malaysia).

According to BuzzFeed's John Paczkowski and 9to5Mac, both sites have claimed that Apple will have an event planned for 15 March (Tuesday) this year to announce and showcase the three rumoured products – the 4-inch iPhone “5se”, iPad Air 3, and a second generation Apple Watch.

A round-up from all our rumoured news of those three products, the iPhone “5se” is said to sport an A9 chip with M9 motion coprocessor, 1GB RAM, 16GB and 64GB storage variant, Bluetooth 4.2, Apply Pay, VoLTE and WiFi connection support, and a 1624 mAh battery. 3D Touch might not be included so it can be different from the iPhone 6s. 

If you've been following the so called Apple “iPhone 6c” rumour for awhile, you may have probably run across a YouTube video by Chinese website M.I.C. Gadget claiming that it is Apple's rumoured 4-inch iPhone. The Chinese website has accurately leaked some Apple products before in the past, but the video seems looks too similar to the Apple iPhone 6s. 

If you've been following us for quite some time now, you'd be familiar with the rumours of the 4-inch iPhone or the “iPhone 6c” going around in the internet. Well just recently, a Chinese website called cnBeta claimed that the new 4-inch iPhone will be called the “Apple iPhone 5e” (why not 5D though?) and the sources they got is from Foxconn.

So what they do know about the “iPhone 5e”? Well according to them, the 5e will be Apple's latest entry-level smartphone and will represent an “enhanced” iPhone 5s.  It will run on an A8 chip and 1GB RAM, carry 16GB and 64GB storage, and will have an 8MP iSight camera for the back. The body is said to be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 5s too with 2.5D cover glass like the iPhone 6s. 

Following the rumours of China Mobile confirming Samsung Galaxy S7 yesterday, now it appears that Apple’s rumoured 4-inch iPhone will make an appearance in April 2016, or so they claimed.

This is not the first time that rumours have been going around about the 4-inch iPhone, previously we also covered two rumoured news of it releasing in February or March 2016, along with the next generation Apple Watch. Another name for the 4-inch iPhone was also called the “iPhone 6c”, which is rumoured to be modeled after the Apple iPhone 5s and be equipped with the same A9 processor from the Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus.

About a month ago, we covered that Apple could be working on a 4-inch Apple iPhone powered by an A9 chip and 3GB RAM early next year. The rumour is quite shady on this, but according to a Chinese website Techweb they claimed that the "iPhone 6c" could be made of metal, has a fingerprint sensor on it and does not feature 3D Touch. 

This actually tallies well with the previous speculation, as the sources are from anonymous “Foxconn insiders” stating that Apple might reveal the device in January then going on retail sale the month after that. It could also cost between $400 - $500 (around RM1690 - RM2112) since theiPhone 5c 16GB model started at $549 (RM2319.66). 

Recently a new research report from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo surfaced, with plans about Apple’s 2016 iPhone launches, including the rumoured A9-based 4-inch iPhone and a 3GB RAM iPhone 7 Plus. 

According to this report Apple has a new 4-inch iPhone in the making that has a similar design to the iPhone 5s. Although equipped with an A9 processor, it will not include 3D Touch support like the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. This is to keep the two products as their own. Apple aims to release the new product in the first half next year and could ship 20-30 million units through the end of 2016.