Fully glass and the steel frame was iPhone 4 / 4s, which many people still regard the reference and the most successful in terms of design. It is possible that a similar construction and receive "iPhone 7s" in 2017. This is not news, because analysts have long procrastinate this hearing, including well-known for his accurate predictions Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities. In this case interesting is the fact that it inadvertently confirmed Catcher company supplying Apple Corps for smartphones.
It happened as follows. During a meeting with the head of the shareholders Catcher Allen Horng mentioned the iPhone in a glass enclosure with a metal frame. Surely he did not say anything. Perhaps, Apple decides to make only one of the models of iPhone in the glass. In the production of such a design can be quite complicated and expensive.
We return to the projected Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI, since this fellow was telling not only about the dominance of glass in the design of new products. Moreover, it is sure to use OLED-display, an LCD which is lighter and thinner analogue. This can compensate for the increased weight of the gadget, which is inevitable when using glass.
Even Kuo believes the likelihood of producing two fundamentally different versions of the smartphone. Differ they are not only the size of the display, but also appearance. If the company now uses all iPhone Aluminum Case, in 2017 only 40% of new gadgets remain in aluminum. This practice is not typical for Apple, and believe it is difficult to forecast.
However, the word Ming-Chi Kuo confirm inadvertently dropped by the head of the phrase Catcher. And it is likely that the only version of Plus get a glass case. Although so far all models of products in one generation - that the MacBook, that iPhone, that iPad, even Apple Watch - in terms of exterior design is not much different from each other.
By the way, a well-known in the IT-environment of the citizen, as the author of the blog Daring Fireball's John Gruber, recently wrote about the iPhone also strong modernization in 2017. According to him, in the future novelty manufacturer is built into the OLED-display sensor Touch ID, FaceTime camera and speaker. The display itself is supposed to become a solid, from edge to edge. The upper and lower frames there will not be.
Until now, Apple held a so-called "pendulum strategy", when a large-scale modernization of the iPhone took place every two years. In the first year of the smartphone design changes, and the following year made a noticeable change in the filling pattern with the index "s". Now the predictions to the contrary - that it is in version "s" we will see significant changes in design of the iPhone in 2017. At the same time, expected this fall "iPhone 7" will be a little different from its predecessor.
