The most optimistic still believe: one day, Apple will resurrect the iPhone mini and relieve the burden on small trouser pockets. Are they right to hope? This specialist journalist lifts the veil.
Do you remember the time when Our smartphones could fit into the smallest jacket or trouser pocket without sticking out a millimeter? Over the years, mobile phones have become larger and larger. Some people remember the era of phablets, the famous tablet-phones that sometimes bordered on the ridiculous. Note in passing that today's foldable models such as the Galaxy Z Fold are basically much more ergonomic phablets.
This phenomenon of overbidding in screen diagonal started with Android. As is often the case, Apple took a while to understand that it had to get on board. In 2010, Steve Jobs himself declared that no one would buy a smartphone with a large screen. When the company realized its mistake, it nevertheless wanted to satisfy fans of smaller formats with the iPhone mini range. The latest was released in 2022, the iPhone 13 mini. Since then, it's been radio silence. Will it last much longer? Does Apple plan to relaunch the iPhone mini? Here's an expert's answer. The iPhone mini will cease to exist in Apple's eyes in 2023. For lack of anything better, the disappointed then turn to the iPhone SE, of which the SE 3 is its 4.7-inch screen, the last to include the physical Home button so emblematic of Apple mobiles. But it too is no longer marketed, and its “replacement” is not one: the iPhone 16e has a diagonal of 6.1 inches. Never mind, many still want to believe it.
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And rather than get lost in conjecture, they have directly asked the question to Mark Gurman, a journalist very well informed about what Apple has in mind. Will the iPhone mini come back then? The answer is no, the company doesn't plan on it at all, at least not in the coming years. This clarification is the only glimmer of hope to cling to now. It's better than nothing.
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