The iPhone 12 mini

It’s pretty much a given that next week’s event is going to be all about the iPhone, and by now we also have a pretty good idea of what Apple is going to announce, although the company does always leave room for a surprise or two.

However, we still expect the biggest iPhone announcement this year to be the addition of the “iPhone 12 mini” — a diminutive 5.4-inch version of Apple’s entry-level iPhone that’s expected to hearken back to the days of the much more pocketable iPhone 5s and first-generation iPhone SE design.

Even though 5.4 inches sounds like a lot more than those earlier four-inch models, it’s important to remember that this is about the screen size and not the physical dimensions. As we saw with the 5.8-inch iPhone X, which came in at around the same size as the 4.7-inch iPhone 8, eliminating the bezel can make a big difference.

This will of course also be accompanied by a 6.1-inch iPhone 12 which is expected to basically be a direct successor to the iPhone 11. Both models will gain an OLED screen and Apple’s faster A14 processor, and although they’ll retain the same two-camera system as the single model that came before, they’re expected to adopt a flat-edged design that’s also more similar to the original iPhone SE and current iPad Pro. Most rumours also suggest that both of the standard iPhone 12 models will go on sale shortly after the event.