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.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Analyst: Apple iPhone SE to Be Discontinued