The successor to the iPhone 6 will be revealed as early
as August, according to one industry analyst.
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a
research note to clients claiming the iPhone 7 (or possibly iPhone
6s) will be announced at a launch event in August ahead of a
September on-sale date. Interestingly, Apple has never
launched an iPhone during August – it’s usually been September in
recent years.
Kuo also claims that Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn
will manufacture between 60 and 70 percent of the new iPhones, and
will also be the sole manufacturer of the upcoming 12.9in iPad.
The next iPhone is expected to feature similar Force
Touch technology to the trackpad on the new MacBook and MacBook
Pro laptops, and there are claims it will be constructed
from the same scratch-resistant Series 7000 aluminium alloy as
the Apple Watch.
You can read more iPhone 7 speculation and rumour, as
well as our assessment of how plausible they all are, in
our iPhone 7
preview. So go do that now!
[Source: Mac
Rumors]