iPhone 5se name back on the table with shady leaked photos of retail box

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Apple has never shied away from feeding tipsters false information on unannounced iDevices in order to keep the mystery going in advance of the company’s glitzy press events, and obviously, that’s now the case regarding at least some of the iPhone SE intel.First, the name. Is it SE, 5se, 6c, 5e or 7c? Truly impossible to say, as a new set of pics reinstates the 5se moniker just when we thought we settled on SE, with no numerical prefix.This latest 4-inch iPhone ...

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iPhone SE event now expected later than first thought

Posted on by Jules Wang

But it’s just a few extra days between friends (and enemies).We’ve kept tabs on Apple as it was rumored that a four-inch iPhone, a smaller iPad Pro and the sequel to last year’s Apple Watch would come with a mid-March event. Some tipsters put ...

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How pink of a pink will the supposed pink iPhone 5se be?

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We don’t know. It’s a week from Valentine’s Day and the tackiest, but most appropriate color is being talked about once again (and again and again).This year’s four-inch iPhone that will likely come

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37 percent of Apple customers cling to four-inch iPhones

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Mixpanel‘s latest tracking survey shows that a healthy contingent of iPhone users don’t want to make an upgrade that will strain their hands. After publicized cases of “texting thumb” making the news and in a stark face-off against the growing trend of the growing phone, data says more than 37 percent of iPhone toters have a ...

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iPhone 5se may be meant for emerging markets

Posted on by Jules Wang

When Apple introduced the lower-end iPhone 5c, the company looked to be aiming for the cost-conscious consumers who still weren’t on the iTrain just yet. Sales didn’t follow on, partly because of its individual, but uninspiring stature. The other part owes to the rest of the saturated ...

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Huawei projected to enjoy highest smartphone sales growth in 2016 among top five brands

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

It’s no longer a secret the worldwide mobile hardware industry has reached a point of saturation and stagnation, with its two most popular companies in particular feeling the heat from consumers lacking incentives to upgrade on a regular basis.Samsung lost smartphone market share for the first time in years, as the Galaxy S6 family only managed to pull in 40 million unit shipments in 2015, and the Note 5 barely crossed the 10M mark, both numbers falling short of optimistic ...

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Latest iPhone 5se hardware rumors paint the picture of a much more capable handset

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

It finally feels like the home stretch is nearly upon us, and all the rumors we’ve been hearing about Apple’s interest in releasing a new iPhone that looks back to the smaller sizes of older handsets may finally be coming to fruition. Lately, they’ve settled in on the name iPhone 5se, while describing hardware that might look like the iPhone 5, while performing like the iPhone 6, getting that model’s A8/M8 chip pair. But while that older silicon could be sufficient for some users, ...

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This may just be our first real look at the iPhone 5se (not 6c) next to the iPhone 5

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

It’s no longer a question of “if”, but rather “when” and, well, “what”. Also, “why”, for some people, although many feel there’s definitely still a market for a diminutive iPhone, especially if priced significantly below the 6s and 6s Plus.At only 4 inches in diagonal, you’d think that would absolutely be the case, yet it’s possible the iPhone 5se will borrow a number of features from the 6s duo, thus needing to charge compact handheld lovers an arm and a leg.Then again, anything’s possible at the ...

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Four-inch iPhone name-roulette continues: how about iPhone 5se?

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

It used to be that iPhone naming was so simple: once we got past that whole G/GS business, we had number, number+s, number, number+s. Easy, right? And sure, that iPhone 5c oddball ended up breaking the pattern a little, but it was the exception that proved the rule. But now with this new four-inch iPhone that everyone’s expecting … all bets are off. Dubbing it the iPhone 6c seemed like a safe enough bet, but over the months we’ve been inundated by rumors of names like the iPhone ...

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First year-on-year iPhone sales decline ever tipped for Q1 2016, return to growth expected in Q3

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

We’re only a week or two away from Apple’s detailed financial report of the just-ended holiday quarter, and iPhones could post a new all-time record… or their first yearly drop in history. It’s close, but Gene Munster, the managing director and senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray, expects the former scenario to materialize, as unit shipments may have topped 75 million after all.Still, that would largely mark box-office stagnation for Cupertino’s main cash cow, which should generate quarterly ...

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Latest rumor changes iPhone 6c name to iPhone 5e, Apple Pay and A8 chip in tow

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Everybody’s got an opinion on Apple’s prospective lower-end, lower-cost metal iPhone due out this spring. The only things tipsters seem to agree on are the premium build (though there’s still time for that to change as well), and compact 4-inch form factor.The market moniker also appeared etched in stone at one point, but then,

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Second-gen Apple Watch tipped to launch in March (maybe alongside iPhone 6C)

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Apple first unveiled the Apple Watch well over a year ago, showing off the smartwatch during its September 2014 iPhone 6 launch event. With our appetites sufficiently whetted, we spent the next few months waiting patiently for the chance to finally get our hands on the wearable, before it ultimately arrived in April. But for as well-received as the Apple Watch was, some critics still saw the smartwatch as a work in progress, and looked forward to Apple’s second-gen effort.

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4-inch Apple iPhone 6c gets another ETA from a reputable source: mid-2016

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

For a second there, we were almost convinced the state-of-the-art iPhone 6s and 6s Plus would land alongside a smaller, lower-cost 6c model. That obviously wasn’t the case, as Apple isn’t in the business of overcrowding the mobile landscape… yet.But more and more analysts and insiders vouch for the R&D existence of

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4-inch new metal iPhone expected in H1 2016, iPhone 7 Plus rumored with 3GB RAM

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Although many may deem Apple’s incremental 2015 iPhone upgrades predictable and boring, the fact of the matter is the cash cow iOS handheld family has gained serious fickleness points with the 5c 2013 launch and last year’s 6/6 Plus split.Therefore, the sky is the limit for what Cupertino will bring to light in 2016, and we could see anywhere between two and four new iPhone models released over the next 12 months. It’s unlikely the “low-cost”, plasticky 5c gets a

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