IPhone 9 Is Still Coming: Apple's Secret Plan Could Work

2023 Author: Sheila Hailey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-11-26 15:18

MacRumors' Joe Rossignol has an idea: The iPhone SE 2 quickly becomes the iPhone 9. What, how can this be? After all, Apple deliberately left the number out in 2017, at that time there were the iPhone 8 and iPhone X (10) - the 9 was skipped for marketing reasons. The iPhone XS, XS Max and the iPhone XR followed in 2018 - no iPhone 9 was sighted. This year, Apple quickly continued to count, as the iPhone 11 family proves. How does an iPhone 9 fit in there in 2020?

This is how the iPhone SE was originally imagined 2 times, based on the size and design of the predecessor:

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Very good, I think. Let's think about it … the new "cheap iPhone" will be very similar to an iPhone 8. As with the iPhone SE, Apple takes a well-known and proven housing shape and decorates it with modern innards. Says: We get an iPhone 8 with the performance of an iPhone 11, thanks to the Apple A13 chip - display, home button, camera … however, all external values come from the last iPhone with Touch ID. So it would only be logical if Apple also places such a hybrid in the sequence of numbers between yesterday (iPhone 8) and today (from iPhone X upwards).

My thoughts on the weekend: The column wants to provide food for thought, call for discussion and reflect on the “news surge” of the week towards the end. A small selection of the previous articles in the column:

Smartphone messies, watch out: too many apps? Away with it!
Uninspired smartphone industry: when are you tackling the real problems?
Forget it, Apple: macOS Catalina does not come on my MacBook!

What should Apple call its new iPhone baby?

I mean, what else should Apple call it if we leave “iPhone SE 2” aside? iPhone 8s? That the heart of an iPhone 11 beats inside would be an understatement. An iPhone 11-X - i.e. an iPhone 11 minus the design language of the iPhone X - would be even more unlikely and laughable. No, no … I put everything on the iPhone 9. Who else is there? Please write it to me in the comments.

Have a nice Sunday and have fun finding your name

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