The iPhone 17e won’t be as highly effective as we hoped

The iPhone 17e, considered one of Apple’s most extremely anticipated merchandise for 2026, may arrive in lower than every week. However the announcement is unlikely to carry many surprises, as a result of the leaks are actually coming thick and quick.

Take the tech specs. We’re fairly assured that the 17e will characteristic most or the entire following: an A19 processor, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of beginning storage (up from 128GB), a C1X modem, the identical single 48MP rear-facing digital camera as on the 16e (though the selfie digital camera may get an improve), a 60Hz 6.1-inch display, help for MagSafe, and a beginning worth of $599. These theories have all been pretty constant for a while.

Even when these theories are all appropriate, nevertheless, there’s nonetheless room for nuance. Such because the A19 processor. Will Apple give the 17e the identical A19 as on the iPhone 17, or a model that’s barely much less highly effective?

Final 12 months’s iPhone 16e has the A18, nevertheless it’s a “binned” model of the one within the iPhone 16; which means Apple takes the chips with minor manufacturing defects (fewer CPU or GPU cores) and makes use of these in its cheaper merchandise. That is all accomplished in an open and clear manner (the iPhone 16e is listed as having simply 4 GPU cores in comparison with the iPhone 16’s 5 for exactly this cause) however does imply what appears on first look to be the identical processor can fluctuate in its precise efficiency.

Till now it’s not been clear whether or not Apple supposed to make use of the identical binned-chip technique with the iPhone 17e. However a brand new video from the controversial YouTuber Jon Prosser makes the assured prediction (confidence being considered one of Prosser’s principal traits) that it’ll.

“Inside iPhone 17e you’re getting a barely binned A19 chip,” he says. “Belief me, the individuals shopping for this telephone aren’t going to note.”

The second sentence may find yourself being a self-fulfilling prophecy, after all… or a self-solving drawback. As a result of the tech-savvier patrons who would have a difficulty with binned-chip efficiency will pay attention to it and easily not get an iPhone 17e.

In most different respects, Prosser merely corroborates these broadly accepted theories talked about earlier. He agrees that we are able to anticipate 8GB of RAM, a non-ProMotion display, a $599 beginning price ticket, and so forth.

However there are just a few different attention-grabbing titbits. Prosser ascribes, firstly, to the idea that the 17e will improve from the notch on the 16e to the Dynamic Island. He isn’t the primary pundit to counsel this, nevertheless it’s a prediction with far much less consensus behind it than the remaining. He admits that he’s not as assured about this prediction because the A19, however notes Apple needs to be “embarrassed” if the iPhone 17e sticks with the notch for one more 12 months.)

The rear digital camera will get improved low-light efficiency, he claims. He expects the baseline storage to remain at 128GB for $599 (that’s assuming I accurately interpreted his “For 600 bucks? Uh-uh!”). Oh, and he thinks there will likely be a 3rd colour choice past black and white, that may be lavender, which was apparently in testing some months in the past.

This newest batch of leaks is unlikely to make Apple really feel any higher disposed in direction of Prosser, whom the corporate is presently suing over what it claims to be a coordinated scheme to steal and revenue from its secrets and techniques. He denies the accusation.

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