"SE" of the iPhone SE stands for "Special Edition" (Special Edition)

Every time Apple launches a new iPhone, the media and users try to guess what the accompanying acronyms mean. On the iPhone 3GS, the "S" stood for "Speed" in reference to the speed increase the device achieved compared to the previous generation, while on the iPhone 4S it stood for "Siri." The latest iPhone to be introduced is the iPhone SE And what do the two letters of the first iPhone to not include a number mean?

The letters on the latest iPhone mean what some had thought: special Edition. But what is special about this new model? Well, the story seems to come from far away: when Apple considered launching this new 4-inch model, it thought it would be a good idea to use the same design as the iPhone 5s. And what name would you give a device with that design? Well, there were few alternatives: they couldn't add the number 6 to it if the design was like a 5; They couldn't add the 7 to it because that number will be used on the next "normal" size models. They had the option of calling it iPhone 5se.

Phil Schiller just told me the "SE" stands for "Special Edition" @FortuneTech

- Jason Cipriani (@MrCippy) March 21, 2016

Phil Schiller just told me that "SE" is there for "Special Edition"

Apparently, Apple Vice President Phil Schiller has confessed to Jason Cirpiani of Marshable, who has not hesitated for a second to post his discovery on Twitter.

The iPhone 5 was renamed the iPhone SE

Mark Gurman said earlier in the year that the 4-inch model they unveiled yesterday was going to be called iPhone 5se. Gurman is usually quite correct in his predictions and it seems that that was the name that Apple was going to use for its new "mini" iPhone. But, as many of us thought, it would not be very good for marketing to add to a 2016 iPhone the same number that they used in a model they launched in 2013. The end of the story seems to be that the "iPhone 5 Special Edition" lost that 5 and it became iPhone SE.