Apple is becoming ridiculously stingy with its iOS hardware, and even with its laptops.
They've gone in weird order with form factor changes on iPads though. And it's possible that they wanted to do it for the 7 but didn't have the process ready or something. I doubt it'll just be plain old glass; it's likely some weird advanced ceramic or something to be lighter weight given Apple's desire to use unique advanced materials for manufacturing to distinguish them from competitors. Now that everyone is doing aluminium phones like they do, they need something new and unique again.I highly doubt that they would make a form factor change on an S model. I can't recall Apple ever doing that.
In a new report by KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo, the reliable Apple analyst claims that the iPhone will be seeing a major redesign in 2017, dropping the iconic aluminum casing for an all-glass enclosure with AMOLED screen. This follows on from another of Kuo’s reports in late March, where he first suggested Apple will return to an iPhone design akin to the iPhone 4. It does not seem like the iPhone 7 for 2016 will be seeing such a major overhaul, breaking Apple’s tick-tock pattern of a significant chassis redesign every other generation.
Kuo believes that Apple will be moving to an all-glass enclosure, dropping aluminum completely as it will no longer appear modern or fresh in 2017. Apple’s smartphone competitors are also adopting aluminum designs in droves, making it more likely Apple will want to differentiate with entirely new materials.
Kuo does not elaborate on how Apple will make the next iPhone entirely out of glass, so currently the specifics of the drastic redesign will have to be left to the imagination. Apple used glass for the iPhone 4/4s front and back, but this was sandwiched together with a stainless steel band. It’s currently unclear how an iPhone could be constructed primarily out of glass.
“In an email titled ‘An Important Message from CurrentC,’ the mobile payment system told early testers of its app that starting June 28 the company would end its beta test in Columbus, OH,” Kieler reports. “‘We will be concluding our beta test and postponing further releases of CurrentC on June 28, 2016,’ the email states. ‘Therefore, June 28th will be the last day that transactions will be accepted using CurrentC.'”
I'm not seeing that on their website. Do you have a link?Since there's a lot of iPad talk in here:
BB just dropped the price $100 on several configs of the Air2 and Mini4 (entry level down to $299 on both), with a rumor that Walmart will drop the Air2 to $249 sometime in July.
That was a while ago. Guess it was just a BB sale price, and not a rollback.I'm not seeing that on their website. Do you have a link?