A new Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max in desert titanium
The Apple iPhone SE is dead. Long live the Apple iPhone 16e, a smartphone with a far more appropriate monitor for 2025. While Apple still considers this an SE replacement, it is at the same time a new product line and comes with an increase in price. Like the original
The Apple iPhone 16e will go become available to order on February 21 and will be available in stores on February 28 for $599, a move that kills off the last under $500 iPhone.
Written in lower case in the manner of the BMW 328e, which is a member of the E30 class of 3er with an “eta” engine, the “e” in this case mourns the loss of the “S” in the outgoing SE model.
[Editor’s note: As BMW then explained, the Greek letter “η” stands for efficiency, but here it seems more like the equivalent of the French circumflex accent, which mourns the loss of the letter “s” that had become silent and fallen away in orthography over the course of linguistic evolution.]
Also missing are a number of other SE hallmarks including the Touch ID-infused home button and thick bezels around the display, although this change allowed Apple to bestow upon it an all-screen front via an OLED panel, with Face ID baked into the camera notch.
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