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The iPhone 5se's design just leaked

Design schematics reportedly showing the iPhone 5se's design leaked via notorious leaker Steve Hemmerstoffer from his @OnLeaks Twitter account on Wednesday.

The iPhone 5se is a new iPhone from Apple expected to launch in March. It'll have a 4-inch screen, just like the one on the iPhone 5s. (The iPhone 6s has a 4.7-inch screen.) According to Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac, the iPhone 5se will have a lot of the premium features found in the iPhone 6s like a fast processor, Apple Pay, and Live Photos.

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The schematics show a phone that's a blend of the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 5s in design. Here are bigger images of the leaked schematics:

iphone 5 se leak
Steve Hemmerstoffer/@OnLeaks

It has the 4-inch screen of the iPhone 5 generation, and the volume buttons on the left side look like the rounded buttons from the 5 generation compared to the oval volume button on the 6 generation.

We've circled the parts on each the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6s Plus that looks like what we see in the leaked schematics.

iphone 5 vs iphone 6 vol buttons
Antonio Villas-Boas/Tech Insider

The wake/sleep button is also found on the top right of the device like it does on the iPhone 5, whereas the same button is found on the right edge of the iPhone 6.

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iphone 5 vs 6 wake sleep button
Antonio Villa-Boas/Tech Insider

The bottom of the phone with the speaker grills, Lightning port, and headphone jack also looks identical to the iPhone 5s.

iphone 5 vs 6 bottom
Antonio Villas-Boas/Tech Insider

Judging from the profile of the device's top and bottom edges in the schematics, it looks slightly more rounded than the iPhone 5, but not quite as rounded as the iPhone 6. The edges on the front appears to slope slightly, like the iPhone 6's does.

Those profiles also show that the general design of the phone will look closer to the iPhone 6 than it will to the iPhone 5, like many rumors claimed. 

The antenna stripes on the back of the device also makes it looks more like the iPhone 6's than the iPhone 5's.

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iphone 5 vs 6 antenna stripes
Antonio Villas-Boas/Tech Insider

One of the schematics labeled "Older Version" shows a rounded camera flash like the iPhone 6 generation has. The other schematic, labeled "Newer Version", shows an oval camera flash, like the iPhone 5 generation. It suggests that Apple was considering whether to give the iPhone 5se the flash module from the iPhone 5 generation or the iPhone 6 generation, and it looks like it went with the iPhone 5's.

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