With the iPhone 7’s impending launch looming on the horizon, rumours regarding the phone’s feature set are starting to leak out at a rapid pace.
The latest speculation, courtesy of Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, an almost always reliable Apple leaker, indicates that the new iPhone will feature a button that “provides feedback to the user via a vibrating haptic sensation,” instead of the physical click many people are familiar with.
The new pressure-sensitive home button seems poised to work very similarly to the 2015 MacBook’s trackpad, nixing the physical click altogether.
Gurman also claims that Apple plans to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack in its next smartphone, a rumour that’s been circulating amid a wash of controversy for months now. While the iPhone 7 will reportedly lose its headphone jack, the phone is set to have improved sound quality thanks to a new dual speaker system. There’s no indication that the removal of the 3.5mm headphone port will allow the phone to be thinner like many have assumed.
Bloomberg also discusses the iPhone 7’s dual-camera system that allows light to be captured by its two lenses simultaneously, resulting in two photos merged into a single shot. The theory is that this allows photographs to feature improved brightness and additional detail. It’s believed that this dual-camera system will improve the iPhone’s photo quality under low-light conditions by a significant margin.
Apple has yet to announce the existence of the iPhone 7, though it’s widely believed that the company will hold an event revealing the device in early September, just as it has in past years.
