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It's on its way...Everything you need to know about the next iPhone
July 30 2017 2:30 AM
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The big change this year will be that there'll almost certainly be three
iPhones.
Apple's next iPhone is on its way. It's probably the worst time in the world to
buy a new one â but the best time to start thinking about it.
This year, very little has been revealed about the phones in advance, in
keeping with a commitment from Apple to shut down leaks more effectively.
But we do know some things about the upcoming handset â including the fact
that there probably won't be just one of them, but three.
Release date
The most certain thing about the new iPhone is that there will be one. (Or at
least one.) The second most certain thing is when it will be launched.
Apple has fallen into a completely predictable pattern in recent years, holding
its iPhone events a couple of weeks into September, near Labor Day weekend.
That's almost certainly going to happen again this year, and so it's probable
that Apple will hold an event sometime around 12 or 13 September.
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It's unlikely that it would step out of that pattern, since so much is riding
on the iPhone. It could bring it forward â but doing so would bring it into
collision with summer plans and other events â but pushing it back would be
likely to cause panic among shareholders.
But it's very possible that it could change the schedule on which those phones
become available. The launch date and the keynote presentation's timing might
be all but guaranteed â but it could easily opt to say that one or more of
the phones will actually be released at a later date.
Some have already suggested that the much posher, more premium and more pricey
iPhone will be delayed until later in the year.
Line-up
The big change this year will be that there'll almost certainly be three
iPhones. The 7s and 7s Plus, as expected â and then a whole extra phone that
costs more and is perhaps the most dramatic redesign ever seen.
That phone â variously rumoured to be called the iPhone Pro, iPhone 8, iPhone
Edition or even Apple Phone â is probably going to be the thing everyone's
talking about after Apple's launch in September.
Almost every feature that's been rumoured for the iPhone is expected to come in
this model. That includes depth-sensing cameras, an entirely new display
technology, a screen that wraps all the way over the front of the phone and
many more.
The 7s and 7s Plus will probably be much more in the mold of recent updates.
They'll probably feature the same outside design, with an upgraded camera, chip
and other internal parts.
This isn't as radical a switch-up as it might seem, in that Apple expanded the
line-up from one to two just a couple of years ago, with the iPhone 6 and 6
Plus. But that time the main distinguishing factor was the screen size, and the
two packed in many of the same features.
Price
If this rumoured premium iPhone does emerge, then it's going to have a
top-level price to match. All rumours point to Apple pricing its iPhone 7s and
7s Plus as normal â and then sticking the new one at the top of that.
If true, that means the phone is likely to cost as much as $1200, and maybe
even more. It will without doubt be the most expensive iPhone ever to be sold.
What remains uncertain is how Apple will seek to encourage people to pay for
that extra power, and how it will keep the 7s interesting at the same time. But
the might of Apple's marketing department has never failed to make expensive
things seem attractive before.
Independent News Service
Sent from my iPhone
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