Next year's iPhone won't have a home button, report says
It's telling that, days before the expected launch of iPhone 7, we're seeing more rumors about the next year's iPhone. The consensus among the reporters and leakers who follow Apple is that the iPhone 7 will only bring minor upgrades compared to last year's model, while the iPhone that comes in 2017 will be a far more revolutionary upgrade.
A new Bloomberg report reiterates this notion, saying it's likely that the 2017 iPhone will undergo a major redesign that shuns the home button and "focuses more heavily on the display."
We've seen the rumor about the home button being replaced by a touch-sensitive button in June, and Bloomberg itself corroborated that report in August. But that was for the iPhone 7; the new report claims the next year's iPhone won't have a home button at all.
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A recent report also said the iPhone that'll come out next year will have a curved screen, possibly similar to the ones on Samsung's Galaxy S7 Edge and Galaxy Note7.
Apple did not confirm any of this -- not even the launch date (reportedly Sept. 7) for the iPhone 7 has been officially confirmed yet. It's hard to say whether the onslaught of rumors about a heavily redesigned 2017 iPhone are real or just a reaction to the lack of (interesting) rumors about the iPhone 7, whose main features will likely be the absence of a headphone jack, an upgraded processor, more RAM and storage memory, and a dual rear camera.
Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.
