Author: Brooke Crothers / Source: Forbes
The next flagship iPhone will one-up the current iPhone X on design, size, features, and price.
Apple’s largest phones are its best phones. That’s always been the case: they pack the most cutting-edge tech, best specs, and, of course, the highest price.
That won’t change in 2018.Size:
A gush of rumors over the last few months all point to Apple’s largest phone yet: a 6.5-inch-class iPhone X-style phone (in addition to an updated version of the 5.8-inch X).
(Below I will focus solely on the rumored 6.5-inch iPhone.)
A recent report from the Japanese blog Macotakara* provides a mockup of the larger X showing the future design squeezing a 6.5-inch-class OLED display panel into a chassis only a little bigger than that of the iPhone 8 Plus, though slightly thicker (about 0.2mm). (See this render at iDrop News.)
That alone should be enough to wow the Apple faithful. A 6.5-inch iPhone is massive by Apple standards and fits the description of “phablet,” a phone big enough to take on tablet-like characteristics. But Apple’s design ethos for the X — to keep it as compact as a bezel-free design allows — should make it wow-worthy.
Design:
Apple’s 6.5-inch X should be bezel-free and notched at the top, like the current iPhone X (but possibly with a smaller notch). Apple flaunts the notch — with good reason, the iPhone X was…
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