Micgadget.com, a Chinese tech blog, has
from sources close to Foxconn, component supplier for Apple. These
The latter would have revealed to the above-mentioned website that they had received orders
not for 3 iPhones this year, but for only 2 models. And while
for Micgadget, this would mean the introduction oftwo models
d’iPhone 8with OLED screen, one of which is larger than the other, if we
overlaps with recent rumors about production delays, the arrival of two
7s and 7s Plus models for 2017 would be much more likely, for an iPhone 8
postponed to early 2018:
Indeed, the prediction initially launched by Ming-Chi Kuo of the firm
generally well-informed analysis KGI Securities, according to which Apple
would launch 3 iPhones this year, two 7s models and an 8 model, did rather
unanimity among the latest analysts and predictions.
The information collected by Micgadget is interpreted in such a way that
this suggests that Apple is planning two iPhone 8s for 2017. However, given the
latest recent information, that would be very surprising.
MacRumors insists on the fact that the Chinese blog could
likely to have misinterpreted the information received. So, if we
imagine that the source was talking about two iPhones coming for 2017, we can then
cross the latest rumors and think about two models 7s and 7s Plus.
Indeed,
according to the information heard yesterday, a delay on the manufacturing lines
of the iPhone 8 linked to difficulties in producing OLED screens and sensors
Next-generation Touch ID could postpone the arrival of this iPhone
innovative for the very end of the year, or even the beginning of 2018.
So, the release pattern for the end of the year at Apple would look like
to the following schedule:
- Two iPhone 7s and 7s Plus, evolutions of the current 7 and 7 Plus would be released
from September - An iPhone 8 would be announced with major technological advances from the
September keynote, like the two previous ones, but would be released several months
later, maybe even in January 2018
All this should be taken with a grain of salt, but can still support the
thesis of an iPhone 8 available late compared to the usual launches
September and October for Apple smartphones.
Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.
