iPhone SE 2 will launch at $ 399, Apple analyst Kuo predicts – CNET, Cnet.com

                                                                                      

Last monthApplelaunched theiPhone 11,(Pro and (Pro Max). They’re greatphonesbut, starting at between $ 699 and $ 1, 099, one thing they ain’t is cheap. But according to noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF Securities, Apple will soon be releasing a more affordable option in the iPhone SE 2. Kuo previously predicted the SE 2 would come in early 2020, andnow expects it to launch for $ 399.

That would make sense, since theoriginal iPhone SElaunched in 2016 for $ 399 (£ 359, AU $ 679). That phone was essentially aniPhone 5Swith some updated specs. Kuo sees something similar to the iPhone SE 2, predicting it to look like 2017 ‘siPhone 8but with improved internal parts. The iPhone 8 currently sells for $ 449.

Kuo is an Apple analyst with spectacular pedigree. Last year, for instance,he correctly predicted that Applewould release a 6.1-inch iPhone with an LCD display (which would become theiPhone XR)aftersimultaneously launching two OLED-based iPhones (iPhone XS,XS Max). Outside the $ 399 starting price, Kuo’s latest report,shared by 9to5Mac, says the iPhone SE2 will come with an A 13 processor – the same one that’s in the iPhone 11, 11 Pro and Pro Max – 3GB RAM and come in space gray, red and silver.

    

This would be Apple’s third attempt to produce an entry-level iPhone. In 2013, it released theiPhone 5C, or theiPhone 5in new plastic casing, as a cheaper alternative to the flagship iPhone 5S. Then there was the aforementioned iPhone SE. Withless people willing to splurge four digits on a new phone, and the importance of huge, price-sensitiveCountries like ChinaandIndia, more affordable phones are arguably more important now than ever.

The phone is also devised as a more affordable way foriPhone 6owners to jump ontoiOS13 – since only the (iPhone 6S) and up supports Apple’s new operating system.