Apple cancels iPhone SE 4 launch in 2024: Details

Apple has reportedly cancelled its plans to launch the iPhone SE 4 in 2024. According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi-Kuo, the Cupertino-based firm is informing its suppliers about the identical. Apple was planning to deliver its first in-house 5G chip with the fourth-generation iPhone SE. But that it now not anticipated as Apple has apparently cancelled the smartphone, Kuo says in a submit on Medium.

Instead, Kuo says, Apple will proceed utilizing Qualcomm 5G chips for its telephones in 2024, that features the iPhone 16 sequence.

“Due to considerations that the efficiency of the in-house baseband chip might not be as much as par with Qualcomm’s, Apple initially deliberate to launch its baseband chip in 2024 and let the low-end iPhone SE 4 undertake it first, and resolve whether or not to let the iPhone 16 use its baseband chip relying on the event standing of iPhone SE 4,” he writes in the post.

“However, the cancelation of the iPhone SE 4 has significantly increased the chances of Qualcomm remaining the exclusive supplier of baseband chips for the 2H24 new iPhone 16 series, which is better than the market consensus that Qualcomm will start losing iPhone orders in 2024,” he provides.

In December final yr, Kuo urged that Apple might cancel or postpone the launch of iPhone SE 4. He then mentioned that it might be attributable to lower-than anticipated cargo for mid to low finish iPhones like iPhone SE 3, iPhone 13 mini and the just lately launched iPhone 14 Plus. “My newest survey signifies that Apple will probably cancel or postpone the mass manufacturing plan for the 2024 iPhone SE 4. I believe that is because of the persistently lower-than-expected shipments of mid-to-low-end iPhones (e.g., SE 3, 13 mini, and 14 Plus)”, Kuo wrote in a tweet then.

The third-generation Apple iPhone SE was launched in March 2022. It is provided with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X57 modem for 5G. The smartphone has a 4.7-inch LCD display and comes powered by A15 Bionic chipset

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