New iPhone 12 release date, price & specs rumours Every thing you needs to know about it .

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Apple has confirmed that this year's iPhone 12 is delayed, and therefore the company did not announce a replacement smartphone this September for the primary time in nine years. what proportion longer will we've to attend for the new iPhone? during this article we present

the newest news about subsequent iPhone's release date, design, new features, price and tech specs.

Apple has sent out invitations to a special event on 13 October, and we're pretty sure it's for the iPhone 12.

With days to travel we have got an honest idea of what to expect. the planning has been leaked, and therefore the full specs list revealed - including a processor that would offer speed gains of up to fifteen because of its use of a 5nm manufacturing process. we've the costs of each model, too, which seem likely to travel up again this year.

What will the new iPhone(s) be called?

Most pundits agree that Apple will release four iPhone models this autumn: Pro models in 6.1in and 6.7in screen sizes, and non-Pros in 5.4in and 6.1in. But what is going to they be called? for many of the year the foremost popular theory has been this:

iPhone 12 (5.4in)

iPhone 12 Max (6.1in)

iPhone 12 Pro (6.1in)

iPhone 12 Pro Max (6.7in)

However, a last-minute challenger appeared in mid-September: a well known and usually reliable leaker reckons Apple goes to bring across the 'mini' branding from the iPad range. this is able to have a consequence on the iPhone 12 Max, too. So it might appear as if this:

iPhone 12 mini (5.4in)

iPhone 12 (6.1in)

iPhone 12 Pro (6.1in)

iPhone 12 Pro Max (6.7in)

Despite the leaker's diary this appeared like an extended shot initially , but we've now seen additional evidence: stickers from silicone cases for the new devices. These clearly show that the smaller option are going to be branded as mini, complete with lower-case m even as on the iPad, iPod and Mac equivalents.

The mini theory now seems the foremost likely, supported the available evidence.

When will the new iPhone come out?

It now looks extremely likely that the iPhone 12 are going to be announced on Tuesday 13 October 2020. Apple has sent out invitations to a (virtual) event thereon day, and although it doesn't specifically mention phones it might be an enormous surprise if it spent the evening talking about Macs instead.

The event starts at 10am PDT, or 6pm here within the UK. Here's the way to watch the event live.

The evidence has been building towards this date for a few time. On 22 September EE's boss - who should be during a position to understand - said in an indoor video that the iPhone 12 was "just days away". That strongly implied an announcement within the half of October.

Then an anonymous tip was sent in to AppleInsider making a considerably more precise prediction: the event would be persisted 13 October. the location says the tipster's IP address fits with their story - that they work for a phone carrier within the Netherlands.

What's more, Jon Prosser skilled the news by saying it had been correct, and offering further details: pre-orders will start on 16 October and phones will arrive in stores on 23 October.

He later tweeted again on the topic to reiterate his expectation that the event would happen on 13 October and to further predict that the phones would leave to distributors on 5 October.

To give him his due, Prosser has maintained for a short time (amid a flurry of predictions, a number of them inaccurate) that the iPhone 12 would be unveiled within the week commencing 12 October.

Design changes

We're beginning to get an honest idea of what the iPhone 12 will appear as if , as what started as a mass of contradictory theories coalesces into one point of consensus. (One thing that's prescribed , for instance , is that the foldable iPhone prototype won't become a billboard product this year - that's one for 2021 or beyond.)

Most recently, the leaker Max Weinbach claims to possess obtained CAD schematics for the iPhone 12 Max (see image above), from which the YouTube channel EverythingApplePro 3D-printed a sample and showed it off within the following video:

Weinbach stresses that the schematics aren't complete - he says "basically display and body are correct but the camera setup is wrong as a security measure" - and cynics might view this as an effort to hide himself just in case it's wrong. But it fits with much of what we'd been hearing previously.

Watch the video for the complete details, but the highlights include:

Bezels that are 0.9mm thinner than on the 11 Pro Max

Larger screen: 6.7in, compared to six .5in

Thinner chassis: 7.4mm, compared to eight .1mm

Much smaller notch

LiDAR sensor forms fourth element in square camera array

Notch

1. It's been expected for a short time that we could see the shrinking or total elimination of the notch.

The notch contains important sensors - those for Face ID, for instance - and removing it might raise design problems, of course. Apple may choose a punch-hole design, which may be a compromise of its own. But we feel that might be the worst of both worlds: an admission that the notch was a misstep, the loss of an iconic piece of design, and a failure, still, to truly provide a seamless all-screen design.

Based on the leaks above, it's just like the notch will remain, but take up less space. which can please many but won't satisfy all.

We suspect that the market as an entire will find it even more disappointing, however, if a newer rumour is correct: that the notch won't be any smaller. (This is predicated on leaked CAD images, which imply that Apple may are seeding misinformation.)

In a video released near the top of August, Jon Prosser claimed to possess evidence confirming that the notch will remain an equivalent size, although he softened the blow by saying that it'll seem smaller because the screen bezels are going to be thinner and there'll therefore be slightly more screen either side.

1. Cameras

PhoneArena has posted concept illustrations showing an iPhone with four camera lenses on the rear. this is often madness, surely... Although it does fit the square housing rather neatly. (The flash is placed within the centre.)

iPhone 12 (2020) release date, price & specs: PhoneArena concept illustration

But that's not a fourth optical lens . It now appears more likely that the fourth sensor are going to be LiDAR, like on the new iPad Pro - a handy inclusion for depth perception and AR features.

The next new lens we get will probably be a big-zoom periscope lens, but that's not expected to seem until 2022.

Screen size

The 2020 iPhones will are available three screen sizes: 5.4in and 6.1in for the essential models, and 6.1in and 6.7in for the Pros. That comes from May's spec dump, but these numbers are circulating for a short time .

If you're wondering what a 5.4in notched iPhone would appear as if , you're in luck: a MacRumors forum user bought a dummy of the expected design and took photos comparing it to the first-gen iPhone SE and iPhone 7.

New iPhone 12 release date, price & specs: MacRumors size comparison photos

It looks ideal for one-handed use, doesn't it? We got an equivalent impression last year when Max Rudberg, a Swedish graphic designer, created an idea illustration of how the new 5.4in size might look.

The Macotakara report linked above also supports the existence of the new sizes. the location predicted some while ago that iPhones in 5.4in, 6.1in and 6.7in sizes would be launched in late 2020.

The death of Lightning

It's a recurrent rumour, but will 2020 be the year Apple finally gives in and replaces its proprietary Lightning port with USB-C, because it did on its iPad Pro models in 2018? At the time that felt sort of a special case - fast data transfers to and from cameras being a requirement of the many digital creatives - but the corporate has since repeated the strategy on the iPad Air (2020).

At some point within the mid to future Apple's hand could also be forced. The EU has been flexing its muscles for a few time, and in January proposed (and subsequently voted to expedite) a measure to force all mobile manufacturers to standardise around USB-C. because the Register observes, however, Apple has ignored such measures within the past and should do so again within the future.

The company could avoid the question by ditching physical charging ports altogether, and that we know it's given this some thought: a patent uncovered in February shows an iPhone with no Lightning port, no USB-C, and no buttons. But don't expect anything as radical as this to arrive in 2020: rather, the portless iPhone are going to be here in 2021. (That theory is protected by a second source.)

New iPhone 12 release date, price & specs: Patent 20200057525

Colour options

The iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max are available silver, gold, Space Grey and Midnight Green colour finishes; the iPhone 11 is out there in white, black, green, yellow, purple and red. That's tons of choice, but what can we expect from the late-2020 generation?

The plain iPhone 12 will follow the 11 within the main, but Apple will tweak the offering counting on which colors were hottest . The XR from the year before came in white, black, blue, yellow, coral (reddish-pink) and red, but Apple dropped blue and coral in 2019 and replaced them with purple and green. If one among those hasn't performed, it'll get dropped successively .

As for the iPhone 12 Pro handsets, we expect a replacement colour: dark or navy (or possibly even midnight) blue. DigiTimes, amid forecasts of the amount of units Apple will have ready for launch, has firmly predicted that navy are going to be offered for the primary time.

This isn't a replacement theory, however. Near the beginning of 2020, leaker Max Weinbach predicted on the YouTube channel Everything Apple Pro that Midnight Blue would replace Midnight Green - which we like, but provoked mixed reactions when it had been announced. Here's what a dark blue iPhone 12 Pro could appear as if , during a mockup created by the site:

iPhone 12 release date, price & specs: dark blue colour option

Leaked photos, illustrations & videos

We've already seen PhoneArena's mock-up of what the iPhone 12 would appear as if with four rear-facing camera lenses, and EverythingApplePro's mockup of a navy-blue finish, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. during this section we'll post the simplest iPhone 12 leaked photos, concept illustrations and videos as they seem .

Let's start with this video from EverythingApplePro. It reveals the external design of the iPhone 12 Pro (including a sensible Connector), but offers clues about internal features too, namely 5G, the LiDAR scanner and a group of built-in magnets.

Next up, a batch of photos showing iPhone 12 dummy models were sourced from a case manufacturer and posted on a lover community named HaAppelistim. For that reason the reliability of the pictures is hospitable dispute, but they fit with current theories about the iPhone 12 design - namely, that it'll have flat sides very similar to the iPhone 4.

iPhone 12 dummy model from HaAppelistim

Next up, what does one make of those mysterious photos of the iPhone 12's chassis? they seem to point out a circular arrangement of 36 magnets whose purpose is currently unknown, although they'll be intended to figure with the upcoming AirPower wireless charging pad, or (more radically) to enable the phone to act as a charging pad in its title .

New iPhone 12 release date, price & specs: Magnets photos from EverythingApplePro

The magnets could even be designed to carry the iPhone 12 against a metal stand or... a fridge. Surely that's going too far.