At the March event, the company could also unveil a new 4-inch iPhone, likely called the iPhone 6c.
Advertisement
Pocket-lint has rounded up all the latest rumours and reports on the Apple Watch 2 here.
According to Forbes, the iPhone 6C will be marketed to users who prefer to use a smaller sized iPhone model. If Apple Watch 2: Not As Geeky As Google Glass, But Close is announced in March, expect it to ship in April of next year. Apple is also working on new camera, wireless, sleep tracking and health sensor technologies for its new Apple Watch, which was last updated in September.
During its March event a year ago, Apple introduced that 12-inch MacBook, and the ResearchKit iPhone framework. The engineers and designers at Cupertino are trying to revive it in the form of a 4-inch iPhone 6c.
Rumors about Apple’s “budget-friendly” iPhone 6c have been circulating for months now.
That means Wi-Fi connectivity, but a requirement for the iPhone each Apple Watch is connected to to be connected to the web as well.
If you can muster the patience, the Apple Watch 2 is also just around the corner for a launch sometime in March. However, this rumor might have led Best Buy to decide and try and sell as numerous first generation Apple watches that they can. Both are available on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, yet Apple finds the 3D Touch support too expensive for such a device, so cutting the final price would be a lot more hard. At $249, that makes the base price of the aluminum Apple Watch Sport about $50 to $100 below the starting price of many Android Wear smartwatches, such as the Moto 360 and the Huawei Watch.
The new phone will have an A9 chip, and offer functions such as Apple Pay – but will have the same lower-end 8-megapixel camera as the iPhone 5S.
Advertisement
If true, this would be Apple’s second March event in as many years, a significant departure from years past when their product launches were announced exclusively in the fall.
