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

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Posted June 21, 2016 at 6:59pm by Shalom Levytam

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!

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

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Chip - June 22, 2016 at 8:44pm

I hope these rumors are all wrong this time.

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.