苹果新产品iPhone SE回归小尺寸 中国大陆将首发
Apple Inc. on Monday unveiled a new smartphone and a new tablet both having smaller screens in its efforts to retool its product lineup of iPhones and iPads.
苹果公司于本周一发布了新款的小屏智能手机和平板电脑，以此来更新其iPhone和iPad产品线。At an event held at its headquarters in Cupertino, California, the Silicon Valley technology company also announced a series of upgrades to its hardware products, including Apple TV and Apple Watch, and software services, such as iOS.
在位于加利福尼亚库比蒂诺的总部举行的产品发布会上，这家硅谷科技巨头还宣布了包括苹果电视和苹果手表硬件的一系列更新，此外还有例如iOS等软件服务方面的更新。The new phone, named iPhone SE, has a 4-inch screen, same as the iPhone 5 series initially released in 2012 and smaller than the iPhone 6 series rolled out about a year ago. iPhone 6 and 6s have 4.7-inch screens, and iPhone 6 Plus and 6s Plus have 5.5-inch screens.
本次推出的新款手机命名为iPhone SE，屏幕大小为4英寸，和2012年最初发布的iPhone 5系列产品一样大，比1年之前发布的iPhone 6系列产品要小一些。iPhone 6和6s的屏幕大小为4.7英寸。而iPhone 6 Plus和6s Plus则是5.5英寸。
The 4-inch iPhone SE has the same processing and graphics performance of the larger iPhone 6s, the firm said, and can capture 4K video.
苹果方面表示，4英寸的iPhone SE的处理和图像性能与尺寸较大的iPhone 6s无异，能够拍摄4K视频。Greg Joswiak, head of iPhone marketing, explained that Apple has witnessed that its 4-inch devices still have a huge market, and therefore has packed into iPhone SE functionalities as powerful as those in iPhone 6s.
iPhone产品营销总裁格雷格·乔斯维亚克表示，苹果公司发现，4英寸屏幕的设备仍然有巨大的市场，因此公司把和iPhone 6s一样强大的功能也都注入到了iPhone SE这款手机当中。With a starting price of $399, the new iPhone is the "most affordable" handset Apple has ever released, Apple said.
苹果公司表示，起售价399美元的iPhone SE是苹果有史以来发布的"最便宜"的iPhone。The new iPad Pro will have a 9.7 inch screen - the same size as the original iPad. It would be available in three different storage sizes with an extra large 256GB version for the first time.
此外，新款iPad Pro的屏幕大小与第一代iPad一样是9.7英寸，共有三种储存容量版本可选，首次新增了256GB超大容量版本。The Chinese mainland is among the initial batch of 12 markets where the new iPhone SE and iPad Pro will be released on March 31.
iPhone SE和新款iPad Pro将于3月31日正式发售，12个首发市场中包括中国大陆。
