SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 — Apple on Tuesday announced the new iPhone SE with A15 Bionic chip and a 4.7-inch display.
Along with 5G, longer battery life, and improved durability, the iPhone SE with a new design comes in three colours, the announcement said, reported Xinhua.
“iPhone SE has been an incredibly popular choice with our existing users and for new iPhone customers, thanks to its iconic design, exceptional performance, and affordable price.
This year we’ve built the most powerful and durable iPhone SE yet,” said Kaiann Drance, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide iPhone Product Marketing.
The new iPhone SE will be available for pre-order this Friday, March 11, with availability beginning on March 18 in Canada, China, Britain, the United States, and more than 30 other countries and regions.
On the same day, Apple also unveiled the new iPad Air with the Apple-designed M1 chip available in a new array of colours. The new iPad Air features the new Ultra-Wide front camera with Centre Stage for a more natural video conferencing experience, a USB-C port with up to 2x faster transfer speeds, and 5G on cellular models, the announcement said.
The new iPad Air comes in space gray, starlight, pink, purple, and new blue colour featuring a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display with 3.8 million pixels and 500 nits of brightness.
It features a 100 per cent recycled aluminum enclosure, 100 per cent recycled tin in the solder of the main logic board, and 100 per cent recycled rare earth elements in the enclosure and audio magnets, according to Apple. The new iPad Air can be ordered starting Friday, March 11 and will be in stores beginning March 18.
Apple’s new Mac Studio and Studio Display, a new Mac desktop and display, was also introduced on Tuesday.
Mac Studio is powered by M1 Max and the new M1 Ultra. The new Mac Studio with M1 Ultra can play back 18 streams of 8K ProRes 422 video. It features up to 64GB of unified memory on systems with M1 Max and up to 128GB of unified memory on systems with M1 Ultra. The SSD in Mac Studio delivers up to 7.4GB per second of performance and a capacity of up to 8TB.
Studio Display features a 27-inch 5K Retina display with over 14.7 million pixels, a 12MP Ultra-Wide camera with Centre Stage, and a high-fidelity six-speaker sound system with spatial audio, the announcement said.
Orders can be placed on Tuesday, and it will be available beginning March 18, according to the company.
Sources: BERNAMA