Whenever Apple releases a new iPhone, talk immediately turns to what the next model will be like, what type of spec it’ll use and how it will carry the iPhone brand forwards. The next big smartphonefrom Apple is currently referred to as the iPhone 6, although it’s entirely possible Apple could drop the number convention on its next flagship, just as it did with the iPad Air.
The handset itself – whatever it is eventually called – isn’t likely to launch until fairly late on in 2014, meaning we have around 12 months of waiting. That’s a long time in tech, even more so when you consider Apple hardly touched the design of its most recent handset, the iPhone 5s.
No other manufacturer makes punters wait two years for a redesigned handset. No other manufacturer, in all likelihood, could probably get away with it. Apple does because it’s Apple – the company is kind of a law unto itself in this regard. Say what you want about Apple, but the sales figures (9 million sales during opening weekend) speak for themselves.
As far as we can tell the iPhone 6’s big USPs are likely to be the overall design of the handset, its display, the chipset and potentially a new means of unlocking the device with a new security feature designed to compliment the existent TouchID aboard the 5s.
We’ll also likely see iOS 7 updated to iOS 8, just don’t expect many visual changes, and hopefully an extension of Apple’s iBeacons technology into a wider ecosystem of products. For most though the big deal will likely be the redesigned chassis and potentially larger display.
Below is everything we currently know about the iPhone 6 ahead of its 2014 launch. We’ll be editing this article from time to time, amending aspects, adding new leaks and stories, as well as removing ones that turn out to be false or just complete BS.