The Launch of the iPhone 17e Is Reportedly Imminent

According to Bloomberg’s Apple scoop-getter Mark Gurman, the iPhone 17e “is due imminently.” The “e” means, as you recognize, it’s the cheaper, entry-level iPhone within the newest numerical sequence, and Gurman says it’s going to set consumers again $599—the identical worth as the present bottom-end telephone from Apple, the iPhone 16e.  

Tom’s Information has beforehand written about rumors that the discharge might be Thursday, February 19, precisely one 12 months after the discharge of the iPhone 16e. 

The 17e will reportedly obtain the identical A19 chip because the iPhone 17, a formidable processor with better specs—I’m keen to guess—than your laptop computer: a 6-core CPU configuration and a 6-core GPU configuration. Final 12 months when it got here out, it was absolutely the high of the road in smartphone processors, however it might quickly be surpassed in efficiency by the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in telephones like the Samsung Galaxy S26 when these grow to be actual. 
 
The iPhone 17e may also, Gurman says, characteristic further upgrades within the type of the the most recent Apple mobile modem and the most recent connectivity chip (presumably that means the C1X and N1).