This year’s 4.7-inch iPhone is expected to bring subtle, rather than revolutionary, changes – and, reflecting this, the handset reportedly could be called not the iPhone 7, but instead the iPhone 6SE.
According to the German website apfelpage.de, manufacturers in the Chinese supply chain have seen accessory packages carrying the “iPhone 6SE” name. The news outlet reports its unspecified source’s claim that the 6SE “would be the direct successor of the iPhone 6S”.
This revelation is said to only apply to the 4.7-inch model; so far, the Chinese producers apparently have “no information” about the naming of the 5.5-inch variant. However, should this rumor hold true, that particular handset should obviously be named the iPhone 6SE Plus.
If the “iPhone 6SE” name seems familiar, it could be because Apple had apparently once intended to name its recently released 4-inch smartphone the “iPhone 5SE”. In that instance, the ‘E’ was said to stand for “enhanced” – which would make 6SE a fitting appellation for this fall’s iPhones.
Interestingly, last month, an anonymous tipster claimed that Apple was keeping the iPhone 7 name for next year’s iPhones – with this year’s models “very likely… named using another riff on iPhone 6”.