Three new iPhones, and one with a screen that's even bigger than Samsung's Galaxy Note nine. What's going on? I'm rich Tomiro. This is Rich on Tech. We have just about a month before the new iPhones are announced, and the iPhone rumor mill is swinging into full gear. It is so much fun to see all the reports that come out that try to predict what the new iPhone is going to be, and these days a lot of them are actually right. It used to be that they
would be totally off. Now we're getting closer and closer to the actual products before they're announced. And now a new report from market intelligence company trend force is predicting a bunch of new things. This is our best look yet at the new iPhone models. They are saying there's going to be a budget iPhone plus two other models, so three new models of the device to choose from. Now take all of this with a grain of salt
because it is speculation. But in my experience reporting on the iPhone for many years now, portions of these reports generally and up becoming reality. So here it goes for starters. Trend four says sales of the iPhone eight, eight plus and iPhone ten were actually lower than expected, even though the hype was really high for the tenth anniversary of the iPhone. It was pretty revolutionary because it featured that brand new screen that took up the face of the device,
It had the notch, it also had face ID. That video did twenty plus million views on my Facebook page. Yes, it was very popular. Apple ended up selling about two hundred and sixteen million phones in twenty seventeen, which was about the same as twenty sixteen. Now you can say that sales are flat, but the reality is a lot of people are keeping their phones a lot longer these days, so I don't think that the market is dead just yet.
All right, let's take a look at these three new phones, which, by the way, all ditched the home button, so no more home button. They all have face ID, they all have that screen that we got to know on the iPhone ten. So for starters, there is a budget six point one inch LCD version of the I that is a considerably larger screen size than the current iPhone eight, which has a screen size of four point seven inches.
So again, this is the phone that's going to be sort of the entry level basic iPhone trendfor says Apple's going to sell the most of this model, accounting for about fifty percent of production. This is the model that most people go into the store for because it has the lowest price. It also has the lowest specs because
it doesn't have the best screen. Trendforce is predicting a starting price of six ninety nine for this device with sixty four gigabytes of storage, with another option for two hundred and fifty six gigabytes of storage, and that price of six ninety nine is pretty much in line with what the iPhone eight sells for today. And keep in mind when we saw the iPhone eight versus the iPhone seven, the price of the iPhone did go up by fifty dollars, So it used to be six hundred and fifty dollars
for starters. Now we have that seven hundred dollars starting point. So that's your basic iPhone six point one inches LCD, and it's gonna have a pretty big so you're getting a lot of bang for your buck with that one. Next up, we have the successor to the iPhone ten. This will be a device with a five point eight inch screen, but it will also have a higher quality screen. So we'll have that AMO LED screen very similar to
what the iPhone ten has. And people might be a little confused before they head into the store because this device is going to be more expensive than that first device I told you about with the bigger screen. But once you go into the store, if you see that LCD side by side with the Ammo LAD, you will quickly realize why this is a more premium device. Now, the cool thing about this middle device is that it's going to be a little cheaper than the entry level
iPhone ten. So instead of one thousand dollars at the iPhone ten costs, Trendforce is predicting that this device will cost nine hundred to nine hundred and fifty dollars, So think pretty much you're getting the iPhone ten for about one hundred dollars or fifty dollars less than before. And this would come in three configurations, sixty four gigabytes of storage, two hundred and fifty six gigabytes of storage, and yes, five hundred and twelve gigabytes of storage, on par with
what Samsung is offering with the Note nine. Finally, one more device in the lineup, an iPhone ten plus. Let's call it. This will be Apple's top of the line model with a giant six point five inch ammal led screen. So again you get the big, super high quality screen. And this is even a tenth of an inch bigger than the Samsung Galaxy Note nine. And this device would compete directly with the Note nine because it would target the business consumer. Because it would also have Apple Pencil support.
Trend four says that all three of these phones could have Apple Pencil support. If I had to guess, I would say maybe the top two would and maybe the bottom one would not. But perhaps it's something they can build into all three of these pretty easily. Now. The other interesting thing about this top of the line big screen device is that it could feature dual simcard functionality. This means you would be able to assign two separate phone lines to the device, perhaps a work in a
personal line, or a personal and an international line. But before you get too excited about the possibility of a dual SIM iPhone, it's something Apple has never offered, and trend four says they only expect it to be offered in certain regions, and I would not think the US would be one of them, because phones in the States here rarely have the feature, which is way more popular overseas. But you never know, Apple could surprise us. The price of this device would be one thousand dollars. So there
you have it. Let's review three new iPhones. The first a budget model, as we would call it, not really budget because it's still Apple and it's still gonna be awesome, but it's a six point one inch LCD model at seven hundred dollars. Then you have the middle phone, which is sort of like the successor to the iPhone ten, that will be a five point eight inch screen at nine hundred dollars. Then you have the biggest, baddest iPhone Apple makes, with a six point five inch screen at
one thousand dollars. Now, when you heard me talk about those memory configurations, one thing that Apple does not seem to be changing is that entry level configuration number still sixty four gigs across the board according to Trendforce. So I think it'd be nice if Apple bumped that sixty four to something like one twenty eight. But it's better than nothing to have that sixty four. That's a pretty good starter, I guess. At the very least, let's hope
that Apple pumps up the free iCloud storage. That way customers can at least back up their iPhones and kno, get all those out of iCloud storage messages. All right, again, all of this just speculation, but a lot of it seems very plausible. There's nothing too crazy in here. Apple pencil support would be pretty useful on the iPhone, especially on that big screen model and ditching the home button. I know, it's a big leap. That seems to be the future that Apple is banking on. Thanks so much
for listening. If you want to link to the full Trendforce report on the new iPhones, go to my website. Richontech dot tv. I'm Rich Dumiro. I'll talk to you real sick