Apple - March 21st 2016 - Event | iPhones SE, iPad Air 3 - LIVE STREAM!
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Apple's biggest product news next week just may be small -- a smaller iPhone, that is.
The electronics giant will host an event at 10 a.m. PT Monday at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. Expect lots of device talk, including updates to Apple's most important product lines, the iPhone and iPad. Don't hold your breath for a new Apple Watch.
This will be the first time Apple has introduced an iPhone on two different occasions in the same year. (We still expect an iPhone 7 and its bigger sibling in the fall.) On tap next week will be a 4-inch handset known unofficially at the moment as the "iPhone SE," which will become the cheapest new phone in Apple's repertoire.
What we expect -
A new 4-inch iPhone
Apple made waves in 2014 when it introduced its 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus, a move that helped it regain its edge against Samsung's Galaxy devices and other jumbo-sized Android phones.
But iPhone sales are slowing down, and there are still a lot of users who haven't upgraded their devices in years. More than half of the iPhones used in the US are the 2-year-old models or older, according to Kantar WorldPanel.
Enter the smaller iPhone SE (or 5SE?), which probably will look a lot like the 5S on the outside but with the guts of an iPhone 6 or 6S. It likely will support the Apple Pay mobile payments service but not some of the iPhone 6S's features like 3D Touch, which lets the display respond to different levels of pressure.
The most anticipated feature of the new iPhone, though, is its pricing. Some analysts are hoping for a $350 price tag for the iPhone SE. UBS analyst Steve Milunovich, though, estimates that even if the new iPhone SE costs $450 -- the same price as the iPhone 5S currently -- it would be good enough for people with the older iPhones to upgrade.
Updated 9.7-inch iPad -
Apple released its hulking 12.9-inch iPad Pro and the petite 7.9-inch iPad Mini 4 last fall. On Monday it will introduce a follow-up to its iPad Air 2.
Look for additions similar to what we've seen in the iPad Pro, including Apple's Smart Connector technology that supports an Apple-designed keyboard cover and an Apple Pencil stylus.
