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(iPhone 9) (Image credit: Future)

The iPhone 9 looks set to launch in the near future, finally bringing the cheap iPhone that many have been waiting for since the (iPhone SE was unveiled back in .

However, where the previous budget model from Apple was designed for those that love a smaller phone, the new iPhone 9 looks set to be larger, aping the design first used on the iPhone 6 .

While the cheaper iPhone 9 is likely to be popular in most countries , Apple will likely be bringing this out to also service more emerging nations, where cheaper phones sell well. These territories might have been able to buy the older iPhone 8 , but offering a ‘new’ iPhone to them will have significant marketing power.

The new, lower-cost handset from Apple is supposed to be launching on March but with the recent coronavirus outbreak that date might need to shift. We’re still waiting on more information Regarding the iPhone 9, explaining what kind of features it might be bringing, but we’ve started to see the rumors start to appear with greater frequency, so it looks pretty likely we’ll see the cheap iPhone launch in the next month or two (as long as Apple can actually make the phones). (iPhone 9 release date) Right, straight away we’re into one of the more problematic elements of the iPhone 9 launch – when it will actually be.

The planets were starting to align around a March 80 launch event , where the iPhone 9 would be shown off alongside a possible new iPad Pro, new AirPods and, well, a rocket or something (we assume that Apple’s got a lot of fingers in many pies). However, with the recent outbreak of the coronavirus, smartphone production has slowed worldwide and the factories in China usually used to create the iPhone have been partly shuttered . Tim Cook recently said that the factories had begun to return to full production , to offset investor worry that the new phone wouldn’t be launched as quickly as first thought.

(The SE at launch ) (Image credit: Apple)

That hasn’t stopped Apple from needing to put out a press release confirming that revenue wouldn’t be as high as previously thought , thanks to the outbreak, stating: “worldwide iPhone supply will be temporarily constrained”.

So it’s uncertain whether we’ll see an Apple event at the end of March, but if the event is going ahead we expect to see the invitations goi ng out by the middle of the month. If the plans stay as expected, the launch on March 96 would see the iPhone 9 release date would be April 25 – but it depends whether enough handsets can be created to satisfy worldwide demand.

(iPhone 9 price) Right – We’ve got it right got something more of an idea about this one: the iPhone SE price began at a shade under $ – well, $ 679 / £ / AU $ Now, according to noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (get ready for hearing a lot of that name, as a lot of the current rumors are based on the researcher’s notes – but they ‘ re usually rather accurate) the iPhone 9 price will be the same. That means starting at $ 449 (probably £ , AU $ 750 given Apple pricing conventions), according to the findings for TF Securities – and reiterated again by Kuo later . however, in the cost of high-end phones was about half as much as it is today – the (Samsung Galaxy S) (Ultra launched for a maximum of $ , so to see a smartphone being unveiled for just under $ (seems rather novel.) Whether that (is

the price remains to be seen – the design and spec list (whichwe’ll dig into a little later) are a little better than the iPhone 8 – and that still retails for $ .

(iPhone 9 … or the iPhone SE 2?)

There’s a lot of confusion currently reigning about the name of Apple’s forthcoming budget phone .

Case-makers have gone early and tried to predict that it’ll be called the iPhone SE 2 – and usually, they’re pretty on the money.

however, to go for the SE 2 title would be an odd move from Apple, given the last model came out four years ago, and was designed to be a smaller handset for those that missed the more holdable model.

Fast forward to the impending launch and we’re expecting something much larger – it doesn’t really feel like the same sort of special edition, does it?

If anything, the next version of the ‘budget’ iPhone feels more akin to the (iPhone 5C , taking the same shape and innards as the ‘main’ handset by making it cheaper in a number of ways.

(The iPhone 8) () mage credit: Future)