Apple announces new 4-inch “iPhone SE,” starting at $399

Behold, the iPhone SE. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)

CUPERTINO, Calif.—It's a big day for small phones. Today, Apple announced its anticipated “iPhone SE,” Apple’s first new 4-inch phone since the iPhone 5C and 5S were released in the fall of 2013. 

The phone is a throwback in a lot of ways. It's got the same 1136x640 resolution screen as the iPhone 5 family, and its general design borrows much more from those older phones than it does from the thinner, more rounded 6 and 6S. It looks like and is probably best described as “an iPhone 5S but faster.”

Apple VP Greg Joswiak introduced the device, noting that there was great demand for a smaller iPhone. "We sold 30 million 4-inch iPhones in 2015," he said.

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