iPhone 11, 11 Pro, 11R and 11 Max: The specs, features and prices we expect from Apple in September

We're quite likely to see Apple's CEO Tim Cook unveil a brand-new iPhone in less than four weeks from now, hot on the heels of Samsung's Note 10 launch. And yet, oddly, many of the rumors -- and nearly all of the most exciting rumors -- about forthcoming Apple phones do not concern the model expected to be called the iPhone 11. Rather, most of the really cool stuff is slated to debut on the following iPhone, which probably won't be introduced until September 2020. 

 

To review:

 

The 5G iPhone? No, not until 2020. 

The iPhone with the amazing 120Hz OLED Retina display? 2020.

A folding iPhone? Haha, how about 2021?

That laser-guided 3D time-of-flight camera that's supposed to drive many of Apple's fascinating AR and VR applications? Yeah, no. That's for the 2020 iPhone too.

So, then, what exactly are we getting this year? 

 

According to a series of reports published over the past few months -- which range from authoritative sources like Bloomberg and Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo to Twitter leakers and rumormongers on the fringe -- the iPhone 2019 will probably be a whole lot like the 2018 iPhone. Not exactly the same. But pretty similar.

 

Which means that Apple is going to try to get us excited about a lot of incremental upgrades: more advanced cameras, faster chips, the next version of the operating system (that's iOS 13) and a handful of other modest refinements. And yet the flagship iPhone 11 will probably be just as expensive as the iPhone XS, with a starting price around $1,000. (Note that this is all conjecture; the company did not respond to our request for comment.)