To date, iPhone 14 rumors have coalesced around a set of agreed facts: a new chip will be exclusive to the Pro model, the notch is changing (again, on the Pro model only), and — most assuredly of all — the iPhone mini is dead.
So it’s all the more surprising, then, that the prominent and well-informed leaker Evan Blass has published a piece on 91mobiles (opens in new tab) suggesting that the mini may not be killed off after all.
In the report, Blass writes about “one of Apple’s top-tier channel partners in the Asia-Pacific region” listing seven devices it plans to stock “starting next month”: four iPhones and three iPads:
- iPhone 14 mini
- iPhone 14
- iPhone 14 Pro
- iPhone 14 Pro Max
- iPad 10.2 (10th generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9 (6th generation)
- iPad Pro 11 (4th generation)
Blass adds that “we can be fairly confident in the accuracy of this Asian partner’s information” as it’s “one of Apple’s largest distributors in the market that it serves.”
Make no mistake: we wouldn’t be reporting on this if it weren’t for Blass’ pedigree. Indeed, it flies against everything we’ve heard not just in the last few months, but in the last few years.
Reports of the mini iPhone’s “dismal” sales date all the way back to December 2020, and dummy units that have appeared clearly show two 6.1-inch and two 6.7-inch handsets as predicted elsewhere. In Blass’ list, you’ll note, there’s no iPhone 14 Max at all.
Even the iPad news is a little out of kilter with what we’ve heard elsewhere. In his latest Power On newsletter (opens in new tab), Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that we won’t be getting new tablets next month, and will in fact have to wait for an event in October. And we’ve also heard that the 10th-generation iPad will feature a 10.5-inch screen, rather than the 10.2-inch model in the list above, too.
But Blass will know all of this, and won’t have published lightly, so it’s really hard to dismiss it out of hand.
If I had to hazard a guess, I think I would still side with Ming-Chi Kuo, Jon Prosser and Mark Gurman (opens in new tab) — purely for safety in numbers, rather than anything else. But leakers have been wrong before, and all three of the aforementioned tipsters predicted a squared-off Apple Watch 7 which failed to arrive, so never say never.
Either way, the Apple event rumored to be taking place on September 7 just got a whole lot more interesting.
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