The Wall Street Journal has spoken to people “familiar with the matter” that claim Apple reportedly plans to break away from its tick-tock generational updates and will not be bestowing any big features or changes to the iPhone 7, except for removing the 3.5mm headphone jack.
Besides being a little thinner, the size of the iPhone 7 models will stay the same 4.7-inches and 5.5-inches diagonal size as the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Instead, Apple plans to hold off the biggest changes until the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, which will presumably be released in 2017 and will include an edge-to-edge OLED display. Reports from the Wall Street Journal claim this is because production implementation schedules demanded the delay.
Assuming the 2017 iPhone generation is called the iPhone 8, the iPhone 8 will also replace the home button with a built-into-the-display TouchID sensor.
This flies directly in the face of a report by Engadget, which allegedly shared leaked images of iPhone 7 components on Weibo. The images were sourced from a repair shop in China, and contained both the dual rear-facing camera modules and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
The removal of the headphone jack has spurned a lot of online contention, with the editor-in-chief of The Verge and John Gruber of Daring Fireball going at it on Twitter after writing thought pieces for and against the 3.5mm port.
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