Apples cheap iPhone to bring back Home button and Touch ID fingerprint reader

pApple is rumoured to be a data-content-type=news data-link-tracking=InArticle|Link href=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/apple-preparing-launch-cheap-iphone-19464719working on a new quot;cheapquot; iPhone/a for release in Spring 2020, and a new report suggests that it will feature the old Home button and Touch ID fingerprint reader./p p Earlier this week, a href=https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Apple-to-launch-new-low-cost-iPhone-in-2020-to-halt-sales-declineNikkei Asian Review/a reported that Apple would release an updated version of the iPhone SE next year, in an attempt to regain some of the ground it has lost to a data-content-type=section-topic data-link-tracking=InArticle|Link href=https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/huaweiHuawei/a and other rivals. /p pThe new phone is said to be substantially cheaper than the flagship a data-content-type=news data-link-tracking=InArticle|Link href=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/iphone-11-2019-release-date-14231980iPhone 11/a models, which are expected to launch next week and cost close to #xA3;1000./p p Now a report in a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-05/apple-working-on-in-display-fingerprint-id-for-future-iphonesBloomberg/a suggests that the new low-cost model will have a traditional Home button with a Touch ID fingerprint reader built in. /p img alt=The Lightning connection on the Apple iPhone 7 src=https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article8789249.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/An-iPhone-7-is-displayed-during-an-Apple-media-event-in-San-Francisco.jpg title=The Lightning connection on the Apple iPhone 7 data-portal-copyright=Reuters/Beck Diefenbach pThis would be a U-turn for Apple, which stopped selling new iPhones with Touch ID in 2018 with the launch of the a data-content-type=live-event data-link-tracking=InArticle|Link href=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/apple-iphone-event-live-2018-13231164iPhone XR and iPhone XS/a, saying that a data-content-type=news data-link-tracking=InArticle|Link href=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/how-face-id-work-heres-11449440Face ID/a was more secure./p pThe company is rumoured to be working on an a data-content-type=news data-link-tracking=InArticle|Link href=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/iphone-screen-fingerprint-reader-like-19571418in-screen fingerprint reader/a, similar to the one used in Samsungapos;s Galaxy handsets, but this isnapos;t likely to be ready until later in the year./p p The updated iPhone SE will be roughly the same size as the 4.7-inch iPhone 8 that was introduced in 2017, and will feature most of the same components as the iPhone 11, according to the report /p pHowever, while the top-end iPhone 11 models will have OLED screens, the iPhone SE successor will have an LCD display, allowing#xA0;Apple to offer it at a lower price./p img src=https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article10709411.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/Fingerprint-sensor-that-works-through-glass-could-be-final-nail-in-the-coffin-for-iPhones-Home-butt.jpg data-portal-copyright=VIVO pFinal pricing for the new model is not yet settled, Nikkei reports, but analysts have speculated it is likely to be somewhere around the #xA3;450-500 mark./p p The a data-content-type=news data-link-tracking=InArticle|Link href=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/iphone-se-date-price-release-7657062original iPhone SE/a , which launched in 2016, had a starting price of #xA3;359 - substantially less than the iPhone 6s, which launched 6 months earlier and cost #xA3;539./p pThe new phone will probably be targeted primarily at emerging markets including China, where consumers are more price sensitive./p pHowever, it could also appeal to customers in the UK who balk at the idea of paying in the region of #xA3;1,000 for a new iPhone./p