It is now time to forget every other rumored report about the new iPhone 8 for doting fans, since there is now official word on what the phone will actually look like and what its features will be.
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The newest addition to the iPhone family reportedly will not have any bezels whatsoever, making it the first phone to be a truly bezel-less phone on all sides. Earlier this year, noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi-Kuo did predict that Apple will be looking to make an iPhone with the highest screen-to-body ratio that has ever been seen on a smartphone and it seems that he was right. Considering there has been so much speculation regarding the phone’s display and its make, this puts a lot of the iPhone 8’s front-design into perspective.
Forbes, who originally reported on the new iPhone 8’s design and features, adds that this iPhone will have the company’s biggest design change ever seen. The screen in the front will be a 5.8-inch display with a cut-out of the screen on top for space for the front-facing camera and the sensors, reminiscent of the Essential phone. This could also mean that the notifications will now move to a special ‘function’ area as is seen in iOS 11.
On the back, instead of having a horizontally aligned rear facing set of dual-cameras, the company will be changing its orientation to being vertical. It has also been confirmed that there will not be a switch to USB Type-C and instead, Apple will stick to the lightning cable. Added to that, the headphone jack will not be back as well, even though it had already been understood when the iPhone 7 had released. The pictures officially sourced from Forbes, do show that the phone comes with an unusually larger size of a home button, which suggests that since the Touch ID won’t be making its appearance on the front of the phone from now, that it will be represented on the home-button on the side, much like Sony did with the Xperia line.
The phone’s release could still be a while, since research done by a Morgan Stanley analyst, Katy Huberty, predicts that the phone will be released in October rather than September, considering that the phone will come bundled with numerous new features such as “wireless charging, and 3D sensors for AR” and so on. And while the details about the insides of the iPhone are still a mystery, the only true confirmation about the new iPhone 8 right now is in its design and aesthetics.