Touch ID Gen 2, 3D Touch, and you have a sale from me.
The SE is a heck of a little device for the price. I think people who want a smaller phone are glad that Apple is even bothering, so an upgrade every two years would be better than nothing. It would be nice to have a yearly upgrade, but it's a low margin device—they make up the margins selling it over a two year period as components drop in price. If it does get updated, I expect it to change to 32GB/128GB, perhaps for $399/499.
They could keep the primary internals mostly the same—such as the A9, display, etc, but perhaps upgrade a few things: Barometric pressure sensor for tracking stairs climbed, upgraded FaceTime camera with display flash, or maybe even OIS and/or the same camera module as the iPhone 7, the same faster TouchID sensor found in the 6s onwards, or upgrade the earpiece speaker to be stereo. So that's the low-hanging fruit that probably doesn't require much in the way of external changes. Not saying they would do all, but they could do a few. Going out on a limb, they might integrate 3D Touch, while at the same time eliminating the headphone jack to make room for it. That's a bit bigger change, but at this point we've got the third generation of 3D Touch coming out around September, so it's not novel any more. Apple could add it without hurting sales of other devices. Lastly, they could add water resistance. So yeah, there are a lot of things they could choose from the iPhone 6s and 7 to upgrade it without it really looking much different or being any faster. At a minimum I expect a storage bump and maybe a new color option.
TIL that stores can return stock.
SE doesn't need 3D Touch when 3D Touch has been completely forgotten by Apple in software updates. You can't do much with it at all.
(Insert) Thumbs downThe purpose of the iPhone SE is to reuse old technology and production lines to make it cheap. It will never be updated.
Nice. I hope Apple just does a spec bump on the SE (CPU, RAM and camera) but otherwise keeps it pretty much the same. Great form factor and Apple seems willing to sell it at a reasonable price.
Touch ID Gen 2, 3D Touch, and you have a sale from me.
Upgrade it to what? The iPhone 7 CPU? It's already got 2GB RAM. And it has the same camera as the 6S. They aren't likely going to upgrade the SE past the 6S, which is the exact specs it has at the moment. There's room for improvement on the front, but Apple presumably made no changes there due to the need for a greater redesign, so that's unlikely to happen now especially when the resources can be put into a future new 4" model.
Not likely to happen, especially 3D Touch which would require a significant redesign of the internals.
APPLE! THIIIIIIIS!Nice. I hope Apple just does a spec bump on the SE (CPU, RAM and camera) but otherwise keeps it pretty much the same. Great form factor and Apple seems willing to sell it at a reasonable price.
the iPhone SE needs second gen. Touch ID, 3D Touch, more storage and new black colour option
Huh? iOS 10 added new 3D Touch features, it's not really forgotten.SE doesn't need 3D Touch when 3D Touch has been completely forgotten by Apple in software updates. You can't do much with it at all. What started out as a great idea is just another lost cause when Apple is so busy with hardware updates they continue to forget the software that needs to be supported. So until they get serious about fully overhauling IOS, there's zero reason for these additions such as 3D touch.. among plenty of others they've done nothing with.