Apple, during the Loop you in event acknowledged the demand for a smaller iPhone, and has launched the iPhone SE boasting a 4-inch display. The company is yet to announce the price of the 64 GB model for the Indian market.
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The company could use a lift. Apple will charge $400, without a carrier contract, for the base model of the new phone. Many are wondering if Cook can come up with another big hit.
During the official unveiling in San Francisco, CEO Tim Cook’s focus was on the very large issue of the court battle with the Federal Bureau of Investigation over encryption. The tech giant also took the opportunity to remind us how it thinks about privacy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Details have been added to Apple’s product page.
“We did not expect to be in this position, at odds with our own government”, he said. It not only features a design that is similar to the two-year-old iPhone but also sports a 4-inch screen, which is smaller than the 4.7-inch display that is found on the iPhone 6S.
The iPhone 7 is still on track and although Apple hasn’t given a specific release date, most experts believe it will be sometime this year.
In the United Kingdom, the new, small phone will begin at £359 for the 16GB model, in each of the five colours. “Apple’s latest iPad is essentially a smaller, technically improved version of the 12.9” iPad Pro, with new features like a True Tone display and improved cameras. They also showed off some new bands for Apple Watch and introduced CareKit, a new platform that can be used by health providers to create applications that patients can use to monitor their own care.
Apple may have launched the new iPhone SE last night, but there’s one thing that was left to everyone’s imagination – what does the “SE” in the name stand for.
Apple’s new mobile operating system, iOS 9.3, went live Monday and was also highlighted during the event.
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iPhoneographers rejoice. Apple has announced a new 12 MP chip to it’s latest iPhone, the new 4 inch iPhone SE. That leaves roughly 100 million more 9.7-inch iPads, and a bit more than 200 million total iPads sold since then.
