“With everyone (ourselves included) using the term ‘iPhone 7’ to refer to this year’s iPhone, it can be easy to forget that the name isn’t a given,” Ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac.
Lovejoy reports, “There have also been rumors that the larger iPhone might be named the iPhone 7 Pro instead of Plus, or that there will be both Plus and Pro models.”
“But often-reliable Japanese site Macotakara says that this isn’t the case, and that Apple will indeed use the name iPhone 7, with the larger model called the iPhone 7 Plus,” Lovejoy reports.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: And next year, hopefully, will be the either the “8” or the “iPhone (2017)” – anything but the dreaded “S” kiss of death.
We’ll take our iPhone 7 Plus units in, hopefully again, Space Black with 256GB!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bill” for the heads up.]
Enough with the numbers already! I was happy the SE didn’t bother with a number. Let’s call it X, give it a symbol (the phone formerly known as iPhone), or some three letter code, or some crazy nickname. Anything but this boring sequence. Bloody Samsung is already on 7 and it sounds like Apple is following.
I like iPhone normally known as iPhone!!!!!! Or, how about “The iPhone that wasn’t upgraded too much”
I prefer itty-bitty iPhone (SE), apple phone (reg iphone), cheap phone (C), and MacDaddy (Plus). I wish they would do iOS versions like they do macOS versions – but name them after vast bodies of water. Think iOS Pacific. This could be so fun. I do like your idea of X – the phone formerly known as iPhone too!
Next year will be iPhone X and iPhone XL
I’d prefer them to call it the iPhone, with previous models then being renamed with the corresponding year. If they use the year against a new release model then it seems dated a few months later in the new year. Using the following year against a model released late in the year is annoying, just like magazines that come out a month or so before the month they’re labelled as.
Will their car have a model year? Probably. So, just adopt the convention now and be done with it. The iPhone 2017, shipping in September.