Apple Won't Overhaul the Design of the iPhone This Year [WSJ]

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Posted June 21, 2016 at 6:59pm by iClarified

Apple is not planning to overhaul the design of the iPhone this year, reports the WSJ, corroborating many earlier reports.

The company will maintain the current 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch displays but remove the headphone jack, according to sources. Sources say this will let Apple make the phone thinner and improve water resistance.

The Lightning connector will serve double-duty as a port for charging the phone and for connecting headphones, they said. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said he expects the new iPhone to be one millimeter thinner than the current iPhone.

Notably, the WSJ is also confirming that Apple plans a major update for its 10th anniversary iPhone coming in 2017.

Those changes could include an edge-to-edge organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, screen and eliminating the home button by building the fingerprint sensor into the display, according to people familiar with the matter.

It's unclear if this is a temporary or permanent departure from Apple's usual ticktock cycle. Please follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, or RSS for updates. If you want to check out what we expect the iPhone 7 to look like, check out these renders!

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Apple Won't Overhaul the Design of the iPhone This Year [WSJ]

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Chip - June 22, 2016 at 8:44pm

F&$k these rumors I hope this time they are all wrong.

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iVaganza - June 22, 2016 at 12:57pm

Release it all ready. My body is ready.

matrixmaniac - June 22, 2016 at 6:44am

No jack no buy! I hate adapters, i need to charge while listening, i need to use my headphones on various sources... I DON't need my phone to be 1mm thinner!

justabrake - June 21, 2016 at 10:39pm

And the price won't change LOL give me a brake will ya apple .......

AccordTR - June 21, 2016 at 8:22pm

So will it actually be called the 7? That would kind of screw the next year when the 7s actually would become the new design. Would they go with 7 this year and then 8 for 2017?

gamerscul9870 - June 21, 2016 at 8:59pm

And end the pattern that was started? It will make the world question to why Apple would do that.

AverageReviewer - June 21, 2016 at 7:22pm

This isn't exactly news

Nogunssaveslives - June 22, 2016 at 4:18am

Bro, none of this is news. Welcome to tech gossip. Lol

Tuma - June 21, 2016 at 7:07pm

Interesting. I know people will still buy

gamerscul9870 - June 21, 2016 at 7:06pm

They're saving the best for last next year, but to those looking forward to this, at least you'll have a case or if you dare yourself to, paint the design to change it yourself.