One of the hallmarks of Apple’s tick-tock cycle of iPhone updates is that every other iPhone gets thinner than its predecessors. The iPhone 7, then, should be thinner than the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6s, just as they were thinner than the iPhone 5.
But how crazy thin will the iPhone 7 be? Just as thin as the iPod Touch, says one of the most reputable Apple analysts in the business.
KGI Securities’ Ming-Chi Kuo – who we say is the best Apple analyst on the planet, and rarely gets his information wrong – has issued a new report, saying that the iPhone 7 will be somewhere between 6 and 6.5mm when it is released late next year. That would not only put it within reach of a current-gen iPod Touch’s thinness, but would shave anywhere from 0.6 to 0.9 millimeters off of the thickness of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s.
That’s pretty astonishing, although Kuo warns that the iPhone 7 won’t have major upgrades when it comes to Force Touch, or even the process through which Apple is currently making the display of the iPhone 6s. He says to expect Apple to stick with in-cell displays, since it’s unlikely Apple will ever try to follow its increasingly desperate competitors down the path towards 4K smartphone displays.
Here’s a question: is it possible for the iPhone to get too thin? Because Apple looks like they’re going to keep making the iPhone thinner until picking it up wrong will slice off your fingers.
Via: MacRumors
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
7 responses to “This is how crazy thin the iPhone 7 will be”
I haven’t really spoken to anybody who wants a thinner phone. They should keep it the same thickness and put in a larger battery.
This, just this! I’ve been saying this for years…
i want my iPhone to be invisible when looked at from the side
I like thickness on a device. I have an iPad mini 3 and the thickness of it compared to the height is just right. It feels cute and cuddly in the hand. too thin and it feels scary to hold without a case or cover.
You guys post this news/rumor from an analyst, but you guys don’t post any news coming from 9to5Mac whose been pretty reliable throughout the years. What gives? I’m talking about news about the 3D Touch coming to the iPhone or any news with 9to5Mac as the source. What the hell is the problem????
Please give me the latest & greatest with a smaller phone, not thinner.
In terms of thickness, I think the iPhone 5S was the perfect. The size, weight and form factor was so good for me that I bought an iPhone 6 and then when it had an accident and I picked up the 5S, I was floored about how much more fun it was to use. I think there is something to that experience. Thinner is not always optimal but thats just my opinion.