The last smartphones released by Apple are the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus that came out in October 2014. For the first time, Apple had introduced large-sized iPhones to the market but now fresh rumours indicate that Apple is going to release a 4-inch iPhone this year.

According to the post from Digi Times, Apple will be releasing three iPhones this year namely, the iPhone 6S, the iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6C. The iPhone 6C is expected to be a 4-inch device will be aimed towards users with smaller hands or those users who do not fancy using large screen smartphones.

The iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6S Plus are going to be upgraded versions of the last year’s iPhone 6 models. Hence, both are expected to feature the new A9 chip.

The 4-inch iPhone 6C will be featuring the same A8 chip that is present under the hood of the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. The iPhone 6C will also come with features like NFC support and Touch ID fingerprint sensor.

BGR states that Apple had launched larger iPhones in 2014 were that it wanted to cater its handsets to wider user base. By the time Apple had released the large iPhone 6 models last year, numerous popular and lesser known smartphone brands had already rolled out Android smartphones with large screen devices.

The 4-inch iPhone 5S is expected to be available for free from September this year. However, it lacks Apple Pay NFC feature that is expected to arrive on the iPhone 6C.

Both the handsets are performing so well in the market that it has catapulted Apple to take the lead from Samsung in achieving the most number of sales across the globe for the last quarter of 2014. This information was revealed by a market analysis report conducted by Gartner.

Apple has already achieved success in its venture of launching larger iPhones and now it may be aiming to make it record higher market share with the release iPhone 6C. As of this writing, Apple has not confirmed anything on the forthcoming iPhones for this year.

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