With the new iPhones expected next month supposedly set to bring only subtle tweaks to the product line, there seemed credibility to recent suggestions that those iPhones could be “named using another riff on iPhone 6”. Not so, according to a “reliable information source” cited by Macotakara…
The Japanese blog reveals this source’s insistence that the new iPhones will instead be known as the “iPhone 7” and “iPhone 7 Plus”. Seemingly further relying on this source, Macotakara corroborates previous rumor about the 3.5mm headphone jack’s absence and a touch-sensitive Home button.
The site says that these changes would leave “the basic design … fundamentally changed” – and hints that, as a result, Apple considers “iPhone 7” and “iPhone 7 Plus” to be fitting names for the new handsets. Given reports of a much more revolutionary iPhone coming next year, then, we can realistically expect that phone to be dubbed the “iPhone 8”, rather than “iPhone 7S”.