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 already know, it’s the cheaper, entry-level iPhone within the newest numerical collection, and Gurman says it’s going to set patrons again $599—the identical value as the present bottom-end cellphone from Apple, the iPhone 16e.  

Tom’s Information has beforehand written about rumors that the discharge can be Thursday, February 19, precisely one yr 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 wager—than your laptop computer: a 6-core CPU configuration and a 6-core GPU configuration. Final yr 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 develop into actual. 
 
The iPhone 17e can even, Gurman says, characteristic further upgrades within the type of the the latest Apple mobile modem and the latest connectivity chip (presumably that means the C1X and N1).