It is known since long that Apple will be introducing a budget iPhone this year along with its lineup of flagship devices. In the leaks so far, the budget iPhone has been referred to as the iPhone 9. Now fresh reports suggest that there might be an iPhone 9 Plus in the making too.
If true, the iPhone 9 will carry the design moniker of older iPhone models, ones that were easier to hold and could be operated with your thumb, across their displays. As can be figured, the iPhone 9 Plus will be the bigger version of that, a chemistry that we saw with the iPhone 8 and the 8 Plus.
A new report by 9to5Mac suggests that the iPhone 9 Plus will come with a 5.5-inch display, considerably larger than the 4.7-inch LCD one seen on the iPhone 9. Though the core specifications of the two models will remain the same.
That includes an A13 Bionic chipset that is supposed to power the entire iPhone 11 series. A couple of other features on the iPhone 9 and the 9 Plus will include TouchID as well as NFC scanning, a first in the iPhone family.
In order to maintain their budget cost, Apple might do away with FaceID, Apple¡¯s own facial recognition, on the iPhone 9 and the 9 Plus. Security instead will be handled by Touch ID-enabled home button as seen on many previous generations of iPhones.
The iPhone 9 and the 9 plus are definitely aimed at making the iPhones more affordable for the masses. But the real advantage would be for those upgrading from an older iPhone model to these. The latest processor by Apple would easily bring in the utmost firepower available across iPhones to date.
Keep in mind that these are still suggestive analogies as the whole idea of the iPhone 9 Plus is based on a recent code for a software designed for a 5.5-inch display iPhone. While such findings mostly turn out to be true, there is a chance that Apple might not have any such plans yet. In either case, we can only hope for such a budget iPhone to launch in the market till the time Apple actually confirms it itself.