The new iPhone SE smartphone will be the first to receive a 5G modem of Apple's own development

From the point of view of the development of processors, Apple and Qualcomm are competitors, and the first of the companies greatly burdens the dependence on the second in terms of modems, used in smartphones. Apple has been trying to develop its own for a long time, but the new iPhone SE, which will be released next year, may be the first Apple smartphone to try such a modem.

This was reported by the resource 9to5Mac, which could not calm down after the publication of Bloomberg, which describes the innovations of the iPhone SE of the next generation, and thought it better to collect additional information about the upcoming novelty, the debut of which is scheduled for the spring of next year. Through their channels, representatives of 9to5Mac managed to find out that the so-called iPhone SE 4 (V59) will look similar to the iPhone 14 and will lose the physical Home button on the front panel with the Touch ID function. The resolution of the OLED display will be 1170×2532 pixels, as in the iPhone 14, but the cutout in the upper part of the display for the front camera and sensors will remain, keeping the presence of Dynamic Island as a prerogative of more expensive models. By the way, the new iPhone SE will cost from $459, surpassing its predecessor in price by at least $30.

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However, the presence of a modern A18 processor in combination with 8 GB of RAM will allow the new iPhone SE to support a set of Apple Intelligence functions. The basic iPhone 16, which offers a 5-core graphics subsystem, will share the processor with the novelty. The iPhone SE 4 will borrow the main camera with a resolution of 48 megapixels with a wide-angle lens from the iPhone 15, but it will lose the ultra-wide-angle and telephoto optics. The front camera will be 12 megapixels.

iPhone SE 4  will use Apple's own modem, which will support 5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. This build received the conditional designation Centauri and was created with the participation of former Intel specialists who moved to Apple after the 2019 deal. Attempts to independently create a 5G modem Apple has made several times since then, and there is a chance that it has now succeeded. A modem of our own development will not only reduce the cost and simplify its integration at the software level, but will also allow to reduce energy consumption during information transmission, especially in the smartphone battery saving mode.