After a substantial upgrade after last year's iPhone will enter an incremental upgrade cycle. As a result, a new generation of iPhone should be called iPhone 6s, while the iPhone 6 Plus successor will be called iPhone 6s Plus. However, according to our previous reports, there may be directly called iPhone 7.

Apple's product release basically have a fixed cycle: annual iPhone upgrade, a major upgrade every two years. As for the time it has been published every year in September, basically no exception.

As an incremental upgrade, this year both iPhone design should not have much suspense, and more emphasis on upgrading the configuration and functions. "Wall Street Journal" broke the previously quoted informed sources said that the new generation of iPhone will continue to follow the 4.7 and 5.5-inch screen size, in order to "maintain a similar resolution." Another source said that Apple might also consider adding a pink body color choices.

Sapphire

Apple in 2013 a partnership with the sapphire supplier GT Advanced, the purpose is clearly to make their own iPhone can be equipped with ultra-high hardness of sapphire screen. Unfortunately, GT Advanced suddenly declared bankruptcy last year, which is obviously upset with Apple's plans. Therefore, this year's iPhone will be equipped with sapphire screen is still unknown.

Force Touch

Apple has now added a new touch technology called Force Touch for Apple Watch and the new MacBook, this year's next-generation iPhone is also entirely possible with the same functionality.

KGI Securities analyst Guoming Qi had previously claimed that the next generation iPhone will be equipped with Force Touch capacitive sensor, but it works, and the presence of the new MacBook Apple Watch or slightly different. Specifically, the sensor does not directly detect the pressure of the finger to pass, but will by detecting the size of the contact area of ​​the finger with the screen to calculate the pressure.

In the past four years, about Apple may use liquid metal in their own products which have been numerous rumors of. Although the company and manufacturer of liquid metal Liquidmetal has already reached an exclusive partnership, but this material is very unique production processes and costs are high, it is difficult to achieve mass production. In addition, there are no clear source confirmed that Apple will use this material in a new generation of iPhone body.

Informed famous blogger John Gruber had previously claimed that the next generation iPhone will have the "biggest ever camera to upgrade." Specifically, Apple's new iPhone will join some "strange dual-lens system," and achieve "par SLR picture quality."

But there are media that such a dual-lens system for the iPhone need to adjust the existing body design, which is clearly not in line with the premise of an incremental upgrade. Therefore, the new generation iPhone is more likely to continue using the iPhone 4s continues today 8MP rear camera.

Processor
Apple usually bring new functionality through "s" to upgrade the iPhone, such as Siri, Touch ID, new sensors and camera upgrades. Bloomberg reported that Samsung will be responsible for the production of a new generation of Apple A9 processor, but the chip is clearly prepared for the new iPhone.

Other
Storage space should still include the new iPhone 16GB, 64GB and 128GB options, Touch ID fingerprint sensor should still be in use.