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- Apple has just released its latest handset, but tech-watchers are already excited about next year's model
iPhone fans are still adjusting to life with the headphone jack-less iPhone 7 but a mere three weeks after its launch and talk is already on next year's model.
Tech giant Apple are expected to skip over releasing an iPhone 7S in favour of introducing the iPhone 8 in 2017 - and compared to the fairly mild updates of this year's model, the phone could see a huge transformation to mark the ten years since its introduction.
Here's what we've heard so far.
iPhone 8 release date
It seems a safe bet that the phone will be released in September, Apple's traditional time for unveiling new devices. However, it could be that the tech giant will break with tradition as it marks ten years of iPhones, says PC Advisor.
Complete design overhaul
The iPhone has been redesigned many times since it hit the market in 2007, but every handset has had the same face – two large bezels top and bottom and a round home button underneath the display.
But early rumours are pointing towards a radical new design language coming next year. It's believed the iPhone 8 will do away with the bezels and instead feature a complete edge-to-edge display with the home button, selfie camera and speaker either hidden beneath or integrated into it.
The latest word comes from respected and consistently accurate Apple tipster Ming-Chi Kuo, whose most recent scoop has been picked up by MacRumors.
He says the edge-to-edge iPhone won't look like a single sheet of glass, as has been reported, but will be reinforced by an aluminium or stainless steel frame. The phone will be made predominantly from glass, though, stepping away from the aluminium designs used since the iPhone 5.
Curved glass?
In June, the Wall Street Journal suggested the new phone might have curved glass, something Apple is believed to have been working on for some time. MacRumours says this could mean the display of the iPhone 8 is curved at each edge, in the manner of the Samsung Galaxy S7.
No more LCD
The iPhone 8 may not use a traditional LCD (liquid crystal display), replacing it with a flexible OLED (organic light-emitting diode). This will make for a thinner phone that uses less power - something that might help with battery life. The OLED should have colours that are more true to life and a higher contrast ratio, says MacRumours.
No more wires?
Apple is "late to the wireless charging party", says PC Advisor, and pundits are confident it will join in with the iPhone 8 - removing the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus is widely seen as a step towards that. According to TechRadar , Apple might just "go beyond rivals and offer a truly wireless charger that works at a distance".
A similar camera
It's rumoured that not much will change with the iPhone 8 camera, although the optical image stabilisation (OIS) technology introduced on the iPhone 7 might be extended to the selfie camera on the new device.
Glass or metal?
Sources claim Apple will return to glass-bodied phones after several generations of aluminium. TechRadar says there might be a choice: the iPhone 8 could be glass and the iPhone 8 Plus metal - or vice versa.
Price?
It really is too early to speculate, except to say the phones are unlikely to cost less than the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, which start at £599 and £719.
If all the above details are true, I will surely order for the iPhone 8 when it's available. Don't forget to drop your own feedback through the comment box below and also stay tuned to wojuplus.com for more latest updates.
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