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Many Looking Past iPhone 7 to Next Year's iPhone 8 (fortune.com)

Posted by msmash on from the I-will-wait dept.

Reuters reports: The iPhone 7 is expected to make its global debut on Wednesday, but many consumers and investors are already setting their sights on Apple's 2017 version of the popular gadget, hoping for more significant advances. At its annual product launch in San Francisco on Wednesday, the world's most valuable publicly traded company is expected to reveal an iPhone without a headphone jack, paving the way for wireless headphones, a touch-sensitive home button that vibrates, double-lens cameras for the larger Plus edition and other incremental improvements. Apple typically gives its main product, which accounts for more than half of its revenue, a big makeover every other year and the last major redesign was the iPhone 6, in 2014. The modest updates suggest that this cycle will be three years.Apple will celebrate iPhone's 10th anniversary next year. Rumor has it that the company plans to switch from LCD to OLED for display on the next year's flagship phone. It is also pegged to have an all-glass body.

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  1. Wireless Headphones by Aerokii · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Paving the way for wireless headphones"- really? We've had them for ages, they're not exactly new or even all that uncommon.

    1. Re:Wireless Headphones by Kohath · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Just like there were MP3 players before the iPod.

  2. Many not satisfied with N say N+1 will be it. by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apple, Ford, Android, Dell, Intel, et al.

    Invariably you'll get the slashdotters whining that N+1 is only an incremental improvement over N without looking at the fact that some people are still on N-5. Skylake may not be the end all be all but if you're coming from Core or Nehalem it's a noticeable improvement.

    New owners, you should know by now this isn't the stuff Slashdot is made of. At the minimum tack it on to the actual release story.

  3. Sorry by Comboman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sorry, it should say, "Paving the way for forced upgrades to proprietary, Apple-branded EarPod wireless headphones".

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  4. Alternating Years by blueshift_1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would they release the 8 next year? In recent years, they've do iPhone #S on the alternating years where they keep the same basic design but improve the internals a bit. I think you'll probably have to wait another year for the 8.