The iPhone 7 Is Going To Be Stupidly Thin (And Available In 2016)

The iPhone 7 Is Going To Be Stupidly Thin (And Available In 2016)

The iPhone 7 Is Going To Be Stupidly Thin (And Available In 2016)

On Wednesday 9 September, Apple will host a media-consuming event at which it will finally show off its new, disappointingly familiar iPhone 6S. 

It will look like the iPhone 6, just with a few new colours and the sort of internal improvements you'd expect after a year of tinkering. 

But fear not - Apple is hard at work on the smartphone we all actually want to get excited about.

In a glorious case of "some guy told this reporter who leaked this analysis", a chap by the name of Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst at KGI Securities, told a group of tech investors that Apple will release the incredibly thin iPhone 7 in 2016, coming in at a super-slim 6.0 mm and 6.5 mm thick.

That's even slimmer than the current, bendy iPhone 6, at 6.9 mm - closer to the iPod Touch and iPad Air 2, both of which clock in with a razor-edged 6.1 mm thickness. And sorry, that image above is just a concept design.

Beyond that? Kuo didn't have much to offer: Apple will change up its screen design to allow its new Force Touch feature to work on thinner layers of glass, and come with a larger battery. 

He's a man you pay attention to though, having successfully predicted the release of a 12-inch Retina MacBook back in October 2013, more than a year before it finally rocked up at Apple's showcase.

We'll wait for the first "leaked images" of the super-thin iPhone 7 to arrive in, say, six months?

Danielle de Wolfe

As Shortlist’s Staff Writer, Danielle spends most of her time compiling lists of the best ways to avoid using the Central Line at rush hour.