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I was actually entertaining the idea of getting the next iPhone SE because I miss smaller phones: the SE is one of the very few that haven’t been gimped in comparison to its larger siblings. Alas, analyst Pan Jiutang suggests that there will be no successor - Apple has no interest in making another 4-inch smartphone again.
[It] kind of makes sense when looking at where Apple seems to be going with its technology. The company seems to be making a push towards the bezel-less look. And while that may be reserved for the “anniversary” model—the iPhone 8—this year, it will inevitably make its way down to the “regular” iPhones over the next couple of years. This means that your standard, 4.7-inch iPhone will be very, very compact when its bezels are shrunken. That would, essentially, remove the need for an iPhone SE reiteration.
[It] kind of makes sense when looking at where Apple seems to be going with its technology. The company seems to be making a push towards the bezel-less look. And while that may be reserved for the “anniversary” model—the iPhone 8—this year, it will inevitably make its way down to the “regular” iPhones over the next couple of years. This means that your standard, 4.7-inch iPhone will be very, very compact when its bezels are shrunken. That would, essentially, remove the need for an iPhone SE reiteration.