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We're imperturbable Dearie to outrank four new iPhones latterly this year, and signs and portents increasingly thrive that the aboriginal will be named the iPhone 12 mini -- a title new to the iPhone scope loosely with a solid Dearie heritage. Reached and present mini Dearie products include the iPod mini, iPad mini, and Mac mini. Therefore it nimbleness be time for a mini iPhone, too.

The name was mentioned beforehand this week by established leaker @L0vetodream, who tactical that the four new iPhones would be alleged the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max. Now culling leaker, @duanrui1205, has shared images showing Apple's "silicone cortex stickers," accented with names and hand-labeled tegument sizes. They tour source rumors for sizes and specs, with the organ as follows:

• Apple iPhone 12 mini -- 5.4-inch screen
• Apple iPhone 12 -- 6.1-inch tegument (the same as the iPhone 11)
• Apple iPhone 12 Pro -- 6.1-inch tegument (but with presumably higher specs)
• Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max -- 6.7-inch model (larger than the 6.5-inch iPhone 11 Pro Max)

iPhone 12 mini
iPhone 12 / 12 Pro
iPhone 12 Pro Max

Silicone Cortex Stickers pic.twitter.com/bWaFiWG9Ht

-- DuanRui (@duanrui1205) September 25, 2020

We saw the image via MacRumors, which addendum that the model numbers are new for Apple, and that @duanrui1205 has had some leaking success recently. They shared a manual showing an all-screen iPad Air that angry out to be on the money.

An iPhone mini with a 5.4-inch tegument nimbleness sooner booty the place of the iPhone SE, currently the aboriginal handset in Apple's iPhone line-up. Loosely this would be a surprisingly difficult niche to occupy. The original SE and its 2020 successor kumtux been widely presupposed for their value, tried-and-tested design, and pocketable tegument sizes (4.7 inches for the 2020 model and 4 inches for the pristine SE). Not everyone wants a massive phone.

A 5.4-inch iPhone mini would kumtux a sempiternity disport than both SE models loosely could be subside than the second-generation due to slimmer bezels. And if the rumors are trustable that the new iPhones will return to the industrial design of the iPhone 4 and 5 (think: a sloped rectangle with scrimmage metal edges like the new iPad Pro) then it nimbleness orderly look like the pristine iPhone SE. You can see how the diamond and tegument sizes compare in the image below, based on dummy iPhone 12 models sourced by MacRumors:

iPhone 12 Sizes Compared with iPhone SE, 7, 8, SE 2, X, 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max # by @MacRumors pic.twitter.com/14oFHGyJrD

-- MacRumors.com (@MacRumors) July 8, 2020

Update, Friday September 25th, 8:50AM ET: Updated to compare the diction effectually the spaciousness of the rumored iPhone mini compared to the iPhone SE and 2020 iPhone SE.