iPhone 2022 14 & SE Lineup
No Mini, but another Max. iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.No iPhone flip or fold, at least not this year,
but maybe an iPhone SE3, or 2 1/2, so we can make the absolute best community in tech together.
First up, as soon as this spring, the new iPhone SE, kind of, not the same big leap forward as the iPhone 5S based SE in 2016 to the iPhone 8 based SE in 2020, because only two years later and not four. So maybe more of a small diagonal step to the side. Same iPhone 8 enclosure but new A15 processor and Qualcomm 5G modem.
Probably the same X60 that's in the iPhone 13, because it's just way, way more efficienthen the previous model
And if this is the way Apple's going, their goanna needs it.
The iPhone SE 2 was already challenged when it came to battery life
So unless Apple amps up the capacity they're gonna need to amp up the chip efficiency, that and an updated single camera system.
Now, as much as some home button lovers will be ecstatic that Apple is holding onto that design at least one generation longer, there are gonna be fans of the more modern design desperate for Apple to move the SE onto like the iPhone XR or 11 platforms
Fullscreen, no face ID, Touch ID in the power button, and I would love to see that, I'm just not sure we're gonna see that any time soon.
Then yes, iPhone 14. I know it seems like it's been leaking for years already but that's mostly been the pro which I'll get to in a minute.
The regular 6.1 inches iPhone 14, we don't know that much about yet, except that it's still gonna be OLED, still have a notch, and almost certainly debut Apple's next-generation silicon, the A16, maybe still bionic.
And if so that'll show us how truly happy Apple is with that architecture.
Now the A16 should move to TSMC's four or three-nanometer processor.
Again those aren't actual physical sizes, just marketing terms
But either way that'll help with both efficiency and performance, depending on how Apple chooses to spend or save on that new transistor budget, maybe ARMv9.2. But I continue to believe that's more about ARM catching up to Apple silicon than helping push Apple any further. It should at least give us a boost to vector, which still could be all shades of interesting, depending on where Apple takes their neural engines next.
And also a better image signal processor, ISP, to improve everything from smart HDR to cinematic mode and video, and whatever else
Apple wants to throw at the camera this year.
And will all these new flagships come in September, the way they have most years?
Will they get pushed back to October the way they have some years?
November, the way they did in 2020?
I guess it depends if this is 2022 or "2020 2", although given their druthers and their financials,
I think Apple's always gonna wanna ship as close to the end of September as inhumanly possible.
Sadly, the iPhone Mini sounds like it's two and done R-I-P, D-E-D, at least for now.
Twitter and tech YouTube turns out just aren't a viable enough market, especially when that cheap and small market has been split this time between the SE and the Mini, instead of one model that encompasses both cheap and small, but who knows, I mean, beyond Tim, Joz, and Cayan, who know Apple may experiment with that segment again in the future. This time though, instead of reports pointing to a lower cost Max, a non-pro Max and amateur Max, instead of a 5.4 inch iPhone 14 Mini, there'll be a 6.7 inch iPhone 14 Max, which should legit be terrific for anyone and everyone, who wants or needs that bigger display who uses their iPhone as a primary computing device, who wants that bigger battery, but does not want that bigger Pro price tag, especially with that more efficient A16 chipset and next-generation Qualcomm X65 5G modem.
They'll have their super-long battery life cake, but don't have to pay quite so much for it too.
And I know some people are also hoping that Apple will bring 120 Hz promotion to the non-Pro, to the regular lineup, but it's not 120 Hz regular motion. And never say never, but so far, Apple's kept that as one of the big value adds the big perks for the Pro lineups, whether it's the iPhone Pro, the iPad Pro, or the MacBook pro. And it's just really hard to see Apple changing that, until there's even something better to help distinguish, differentiate the Pros like 240 Hz promotion, because the human eye probably peaks out at 480 Hz, so we're still only at the beginning of this.
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