The iPhone SE2 will not be presented at WWDC 2019 – nor later

The WWDC 2019 is so close that one can practically imagine what iOS 13 will bring – although we can see some New material this year (the Mac Pro 2019 may appear), we will not see an iPhone SE2.

In fact, we will never see the much-vaunted sequel to Apple's surprise success in 2016, the phone that brought back the nostalgia needed and merged it with cutting-edge technology. It was called the iPhone special edition and it looks like Apple is leaving it as an exclusive nickname for the phone.

The SE2 iPhone will never arrive for a simple reason: we have gone beyond the stage of smaller smartphones, and the SE is synonymous with compactness … which is sad because no matter how hard a brand is trying to push ever larger screen sizes, there will always be a market for that.

This smaller four-inch screen represented something that so many smartphone users still want: a phone that fits comfortably in the palm of your hand. Something that you can interact with easily with a single set of numbers, which does not see you using your nose to hit the right side of the screen when you hold something in the other hand.

A phone that could be used with one hand interested a specific set of smartphone users: those who did not really want it. Those who understood that being disconnected on the move were behind the scenes and understood that the iPhone was generally considered one of the easiest handsets to use. The SE was one of the cheapest, so it became obvious to many.

It's a powerful mix and the reason the phone continued to be successful years later – continues to sell quickly even if it was interrupted in 2018, before being quietly released earlier in 2019. Tim Cook's surprise of its success after its launch shows that Apple has not realized the impact that it could have had.

It's over for small phones

The modern smartphone cares less about hardware than what users can do with it. It is a device for deeper applications, platforms requiring a larger screen area to allow users to see the enhanced and more detailed features offered.

Younger smartphone users are increasingly attracted to larger screens, allowing them to devour more online media, watch YouTube videos with greater clarity, and change their presence on the networks. in a more refined way.

An all-screen phone, but smaller could appear, but it would significantly increase the cost of improving the display and the need to create a perfectly balanced phone.

The all-screen OS (perhaps called the XE) should bundle advanced components to take advantage of all the new tips brought by iOS and ensure that the cost remains attractive enough to be within the reach of those who wish an iPhone but do not want to pay exorbitant amounts for that.

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When it comes to considering a successor to the iPhone SE, there is also the problem of the much missing feature that would never appear on a new budget model: the headphone jack.

We wondered why the new iPod Touch still had an audio port. The reason is probably that the new Touch screen uses the same design as that of four years ago. It was therefore wise to keep the headphone jack.

Apple will never launch another compact smartphone in the vein of the SE iPhone. Even though it was coming out with a phone meant for those who were looking for a cheaper iPhone, which used older designs, it would probably be based on the shape of the iPhone 7 or later.

An iPhone SE2 could follow the design of the iPhone 6S and keep the port for headphones, but felt the courage of Apple by removing it from its range of smartphones would be rather large.

Since the iPhone SE was the latest new smartphone from Apple to integrate the headphone jack, a new portless SE would feel even more distant from the original, a distinct line only sharing the name (if the iPhone SE2 should actually appear.

So what could happen?

Considering all of the above, you may not understand why recent rumors have announced an iPhone SE2 for 2020 … or even WWDC 2019.

Even if we do not expect to see phone material at the Apple Developer Conference, that does not mean we can never get a new, simplified version of the iPhone.

It's quite possible that Barclays analyst Blayne Curtis's predictions of a lower-cost iPhone, devoid of things like 3D Touch, may appear in the near future. It would most likely be based on the older designs, those of the iPhone 7 and 8, in order to protect prices while providing a screen size large enough for the use of modern applications.

We'll probably see this in 2020, but since its name is different from SE – as the colorful 'natural successor' of the iPhone 5C has been named iPhone XR, Apple will probably want to create a new proposal rather than encourage natural comparisons.

WWDC makes very few hardware changes to its hardware. This year, we are expecting major iOS upgrades as well as launching macOS 10.15 and retooling iTunes to split it into different applications.

Our best guess as to the announcement of this low-cost phone would be either parallel to the launch of the new iPhone in September, or even during its own event (in the same vein as the iPhone SE, which has landed at a special launch in March 2016). .

What is almost certain is that Apple will not take a seven-year-old phone model and pack it with new technology – angular industrial design might have been taken up with the new iPad Pro, but for Apple to apply the same language to a new iPhone, even a reboot, seems too complicated at this point.

So, if you fancy an iPhone SE2, which looks like that of your old model, we suggest you try to make peace with a slightly larger handset and the benefits that flow from it, or to continue with an aging device – because this special edition seems to remain the only thing of this kind ever made by Apple.