iPhone 12: everything we think we know about Apple’s 2020 5G iPhones, which could be announced on October 13th

Apple is likely fetching the wraps off its 2020 iPhones at an event on October 13th, and with just years to go until the big reveal, we might now know nearly everything almost them — including when you power be able to buy them for yourself.

Umteen rumors suggest the iPhone 12 lineup will take a bran-new design with squared edges instead of rounded ones, perhaps similar to the beloved purpose of the iPhone 4 and 5. And whol signs are pointing toward this beingness the year the iPhone gets 5G, which should set back you leading for faster data speeds — erstwhile the networks can reliably deliver them in your field. But if you've been waiting for iPhones to get 120Hz refresh rate screens, you mightiness have to waiting another class.

The likeliest rumor of them whol? We're getting four new iPhones this year.

Iv new iPhones this fall, with two new screen sizes

All of the virtually trusted sources of Malus pumila rumors look to agree: instead of announcing three new iPhone models, like Apple did in 2017, 2018, and 2019, the company will reveal four. And we now might know their prices, colors, and release dates as well because of a Google-translated Weibo post from a leaker called Kang (who has a reliable path record, according to AppleTrack):

A new 5.4-inch iPhone 12 mini, which would take in a smaller screen than the 5.8-inch iPhone 11 Pro (and presumably embody an entirely smaller phone). IT could start at $699; come in black, white, red, blue, and green; and have 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB versions.
A 6.1-inch iPhone 12, significance it would have the same screen size atomic number 3 the iPhone 11, with similar specs equally its 5.4-inch sibling. It might jump at $799; also semen in black, white, red, blue, and greens; and also have 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB versions.
A second 6.1-inch model, the iPhone 12 In favour of, which would have high-end eyeglasses. It may start at $999; come in gold, silver-tongued, graphite, and blue; and have 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB versions.
A new 6.7-inch iPhone 12 Pro Grievous bodily harm. That screen size would be bigger than the 6.5-in iPhone 11 In favor Max (apt making the phone larger in size as well). IT could start up at $1,099; come in gold, silver, plumbago, and puritanic; and have 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB versions.

Earlier, the rumor about quatern iPhone models with those same screen sizes came from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who's reliably predicted the sizes and features of new iPhones for several years now — but The Wall Street Diary too corroborated those test sizes in April. And Bloomberg reported them as fact in September.

A new industrial design reminiscent of the iPhone 4 and 5

Apple has stuck with the same basic silhouette for the iPhone — a rounded rectangle with rounded sides — since the iPhone 6, a phone that came out clear backmost in 2014. Simply this yr, rumors indicate the newest iPhones could have flat edges, returning iPhone design to the glory days of the iPhone 4, iPhone 5, and iPhone SE (operating room the recent iPad Pros, if you want a newer charge of reference).

Apparent dummy models of the phones have been unfixed around this summer, founded on the expected dimensions of the forthcoming iPhones, and they give us our best idea of what that new design could look wish, and how their sizes compare to other phones in Apple's lineup.

Agree out this exposure of those dummy models from MacRumors. They kinda remind me of the iPhone 4:

Bloomberg is reportage that all foursome bran-new iPhones will have squared-off edges and will continue to get stainless steel edges on the pricier models and aluminum on the less costly ones.

If you want to get a sensation of how these phones might size ascending to Apple's 2019 iPhones, check tabu this MacRumors post:

I find this succeeding MacRumors photo peculiarly provocative, comparing the rumored 5.4-in model (middle) to the first-generation iPhone SE (left) and the second-generation iPhone SE (right). I've wanted an iPhone that's smaller than the iPhone X / XS / 11 Pro with an edge-to-butt on display so badly, and the size of this dummy model looks almost perfect to Maine.

Plus, if you want to see what the rumored new iPhone sizes could look like in person, check out MKBHD's video where he goes hands-on with a set of dummy models:

The basic iPhones with 5G, but which flavors?

2020's iPhones are expected to be the first to support 5G pitted networks, which means the phones might be able to take advantage of faster network speeds — depending on the 5G coverage in your expanse, and possibly depending on which interlingual rendition of the next iPhone you fetch up buying.

In January, Kuo said that all four upcoming iPhone models will support some U-boat-6GHz and the faster (but far shorter-cast) mmWave 5G. We'd generally weight his rumors a tad higher than the relaxation, but even Kuo revised his guidance in September to say that shipments of mmWave 5G iPhones would be "lower than expected," without specifying whether any iPhones had dropped the applied science. And Kang reported on Friday that all four models leave sustain 5G only said that mmWave will only comprise orthodox in the U.S. models.

Passim the year, other rumors have differed astir which iPhones will stupefy 5G. The Wall Street Daybook reported in April that "few" of this year's iPhones would aim 5G, while Bloomberg said that 5G will be added to "A many As four new handset models." Fast Caller has a source that claims only the top-of-the-line models will extend the quickest mmWave flavor of 5G, according to a report card from September.

So IT seems like a unadventurous bet that 5G should resuscitate new iPhones — Qualcomm and Malus pumila fought hard to make it happen — but right now, it's not totally make which phones might have which forms of 5G.

An OLED screen in every iPhone, but what nigh refresh rates?

Apple's entire fall iPhone batting order is at last expected to have OLED screens this yr, The Wall Street Diary reportable in April, and Bloomberg agrees. Apple plans to bring forward its Super Retina XDR display, which was exclusive to last year's iPhone 11 Pro lineup, to whol four of this yr's iPhones, Kang reported connected Friday.

Despite much of the industry fast-flying on to OLED years ago, Liquid crystal display screens have hung around in or s of Orchard apple tree's recent phones, including 2018's iPhone XR and 2019's iPhone 11. OLED screens suffer some advantages over Liquid crystal display. E.g., because each pixel on an OLED screen is singly lit, the screen lav just turn those pixels cancelled when showing blacks. That tooshie mingy deeper blacks, truer colors, more vibrance, and sometimes better stamp battery life.

Flagship Humanoid phones stimulate also moved on to high refresh rate screens for drum sander scrolling, animations, and games, but it's indistinct if that technology will arrive on some iPhones this year. We've heard rumors some ways, and some sources enjoin Apple has time-tested prototypes with and without the feature. But Kuo said in September that none of the spick-and-span iPhones will have 120Hz — instead, Malus pumila apparently plans to bring the feature to iPhone screens future year.

If the iPhone 12 does offer 120Hz, don't be surprised if Apple calls it "ProMotion" onstage. (That's the marque IT uses for its iPad Pros, which have had high refresh rate screens since 2017.)

Malus pumila may also make the screens in this yr's iPhones tougher with a new ceramic substrate deoxyephedrine, according to Kang.

Don't bear quatern cameras, but high-end iPhones could get LIDAR

This year's iPhones are expected to keep goin a treble-camera setup for the lower-end models and a triple-camera setup for the higher-end models — but the high-oddment phones could also get a LIDAR sensing element, according to Bloomberg, which can notice objects using lasers. That LIDAR sensor, on paper, can enable better augmented reality experiences because your ring could rich person a better feel of your surroundings.

Kang mutual more about what cameras you might expect to see on each iPhone 12 example on Friday:

The iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 may have a wide of the mark-angle and an ultrawide
The iPhone 12 Pro could have a inaccurate-angle, an ultrawide, a telephoto with 4X optical zoom, and a LIDAR sensor
The iPhone 12 Pro Max might have a wide-angle, an ultrawide, a telephoto with 5X visual zoom, and a LIDAR sensor

Apple first added a LIDAR sensing element to the iPad Pros in March, and in his revue, my colleague Dieter Bohn found that it "seems rather advanced but built for a software future that hasn't arrived yet." We'll have to wait and see if Orchard apple tree can do a strong case for it in the iPhone.

Kang too said Malus pumila bequeath constitute rising its Deep Fusion image processing line, night mode photos, and its Street smart HDR system with the sunrise iPhones.

Nobelium charger operating room headphones in the box

One of the biggest changes to this twelvemonth's iPhone lineup could be in the box they place. Apple is rumored to remove both the in-boxful charger and earbuds, Kuo reported in June, which Kang corroborated on Fri. Bloomberg also reportable along October 6th that Apple plans to remove the battery charger from the loge.

This would make up a big shift, as iPhones have come with ability adapters and EarPods since the first iPhone launched in 2007. Simply perhaps Apple is disagreeable to avoid bountiful everyone yet another unneeded mogul adapter Beaver State countersink of headphones that will just get shoved in a drawer. (The decision could also significantly reduce e-waste.)

That doesn't mean Orchard apple tree won't offer ways to charge your phone. The new iPhones will obviously unruffled come with a Lightning to USB-C cable, according to Kuo, which would let you connect your phone to a computer or a power adapter with a USB-C port. (That rumor of a Lightning to USB-C cable suggests the phone itself likely won't ingest a USB-C port this year, even though the iPad Pro switched over to USB-C in 2018.)

Kuo also said that Apple would sell a new 20-watt charger, which may have been corroborated by this picture posted to Twitter. If this courser is a realistic Apple product, it power charge your devices quicker than the 18-watt battery charger included with the iPhone 11 In favou and likely much faster than the anemic 5-watt charger enclosed with the iPhone 11.

Without an included charger and headphones, the new iPhones may have a thinner box. Instagram chronicle conceptsiphone posted a render of a tray that could be included in the new box, and it seems to only birth space for a helical-improving cable system and possibly many document and instructions.

That smaller box could help Orchard apple tree claim that these iPhones are even to a greater extent environmentally-matey than in previous years.

Like wonted, the new iPhones should have a young central processing unit

This year's iPhones are prospective to have til now another rising Orchard apple tree-designed CPU, as Apple has enclosed the succeeding numerical A-serial Technology chip with original iPhones for the past few generations. Bloomberg reported along Friday that chip will be the A14 mainframe, which would be the same one included in the new iPad Air. The new chip will apparently be a "significant" upgrade "with an emphasis on speeding up artificial intelligence and AR tasks," Bloomberg said in a separate cover from Apr.

They might support MagSafe, only perhaps not how we expect

Apple has sadly phased out the MagSafe magnetic power cable from its laptop lines, but Apple-branded magnetic charging tech might score a return with the release of the new iPhones. The caller apparently plans to reveal wireless "MagSafe" chargers and a magnet-equipped iPhone case to help you align your phone more easily when you set information technology on a charging mat, according to Kang.

Google's translation of Kang's Weibo C. W. Post is a trifle confusing about how numerous chargers there mightiness be and what they might be called:

Magsafe official magnetic casing, cardinal Magsafe Battery charger wireless chargers, and Magsafe Duo Charger.

But leaker @L0vetodream said the name calling MagSafe Charger and MagSafe Couplet Charger in a tweet on Friday. That seems to point to there being evenhanded two chargers: the MagSafe Charger and the MagSafe Duo Charger.

This isn't the first off we've heard of Malus pumila possibly adding magnets to its products to help with wireless charging. Leaker EverythingApplePro shared photos of what appear to be magnets designed to comprise built into the iPhone 12's casing in August:

EverythingApplePro also shared an persona of what looks like-minded that rumored MagSafe case in August as good.

Yup. Regular iPhone 12 cases will also have this magnet system built in. Likely for perfect alignment with Apple's wireless chargers. pic.twitter.com/eDEQ474NIX
— EverythingApplePro (@EveryApplePro) August 5, 2020

This year's iPhones are launching later than normal

The release of a New iPhone in September almost feels like something you could Seth your clock to, but forthwith it seems same we'll in conclusion be seeing them at Orchard apple tree's October 13th event. That's not all unexpected, though, as Apple has already said that this yr's iPhones wish glucinium obtainable "a few weeks advanced" than their usual Sept set up escort.

But now we might have a good melodic theme about when you can expect to ensure the new iPhones in stores, thanks to reported release data from Kang:

iPhone 12 mini: preorders on November 6th or 7th, unloosen go out of November 13th or 14th
iPhone 12: preorders along Oct 16th or 17th, release date of October 23rd Beaver State 24th
iPhone 12 Pro: preorders on October 16th or 17th, release date of October 23rd or 24th
iPhone 12 In favor of Soap: preorders on November 13th or 14th, release date of November 20th or 21st

Nevertheless, Bloomberg aforesaid in September that we'll get the less expensive iPhones earlier than the higher-end models, and it reported on October 9th that "leastwise" the 6.7-inch version Crataegus oxycantha not be released until sometime later. So IT seems like Malus pumila North Korean won't release every iPhone at the same time this class, but it's baffling to bang for sure which iPhone bequeath release when.

Other tidbits: bombardment, storage

There are few other rumors floating close to some the upcoming iPhones. Apple leaker @L0vetodream said the low-conclusion iPhones might have 4GB of RAM and the high-end ones could have 6GB, for example.

We may also have an idea about the battery sizes for the new phones, thanks to reported certifications. The rumored 5.4-inch iPhone could have a 2,227mAh bombardment, the 6.1-in iPhones may both deliver a 2,775mAh battery, while the 6.7-inch iPhone might get a 3,687mAh plurality. By comparison, those batteries would be little than the reported capacities of similar-sized iPhones in the current lineup. (Apparently, the 5.8-inch iPhone 11 Pro has a 3,045mAh barrage, the 6.1-inch iPhone 11 has a 3,110mAh battery, and the iPhone 11 Pro Max has a 3,969mAh battery.)

Update October 9th, 2:33PM ET : Added details from Holocene epoch reports about the rumored colors, prices, screen sizes, cameras, 5G capabilities, processor, release plans, and more.