“We have less than two weeks to go before Apple unveils the iPhone 8 and finally puts an end to all the rumors and speculation,” Zach Epstein reports for BGR. “As is the case each and every year, there really isn’t much left for Apple to surprise us with when company executives take the stage on September 12th.”
“We already know just about everything there is to know about the iPhone 8, from its look and all-screen design to its specs, price, internal components, and more,” Epstein reports. “We even know that Apple is ditching Touch ID and replacing with even more impressive facial recognition features.”
“There is one thing we don’t know, however, and a new report may have finally answered the last remaining question surrounding Apple’s next-generation flagship iPhone,” Epstein reports. “If a new report from Apple news blog 9to5Mac is to be believed… the “iPhone 8” is actually Apple’s name for its iPhone 7 successor, not the completely redesigned iPhone we’ve been seeing so much of over the past few months.”
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“I’m here at IFA in Berlin, Germany which opens to the public today. Behind the scenes I’ve been discussing the upcoming iPhone launch on September 12th with many case vendors,” Seth Weintraub reports. “these people believe the names of the iPhones will be: iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, [and] iPhone Edition.”
“One casemaker has updated their internal SKUs based on the information and is actively printing packaging which I was able to see in the form of preliminary artwork,” Weintraub reports. “Conventional wisdom up until this point was that the other iPhones launched next month would be called the ‘iPhone 7s’ and ‘iPhone 7s Plus.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Death to the “S!”
We’ve been calling for this for years! Let’s hope these are the names Apple bestows upon their next-gen iPhones!
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Apple, enough with the stupid iPhone ‘S’ naming already – September 16, 2015
Makes perfect sense. It will be a significant upgrade. Glass, cameras, internals, charging, all new, and deserve the iPhone 8 designation. I like Edition rather than Pro; it let’s people know it is a luxury item, likely with the same internals as the 8.
Does this mean I can pay with my face when I buy coffee at McDonald’s drivethru each morning?? Normally, I hold my iPhone out over the huge wired in contraption they barely can hold out the window. I tried to pay with my watch at Chic-fil-A and the teenybopper thought I was crazy. Just how will you use your face to pay if touch ID is not there??
Easy, you just bang your head against the terminal and viola! Your paid! Headaches for free! 🙂
Not bad. But still prefer just get rid of number scheme
iPhone SE
iPhone (4.7″ & 5.5″)
iPhone Edition
“actively printing packaging which I was able to see in the form of preliminary artwork”
huh!?!?
Can’t wait for the 8 ball cases.
My sources tell me that the most coveted model will be called the iPhone Bling.
How about we honor the person under whose leadership the iPhone was created: iPhone, Steve Jobs Edition?
“Edition” might be the worst name they’ve ever come up with. Sucked for the Apple
watch and will suck if they use it for the phone. It conveys nothing. Useless word in the context of an electronic device.
iPhone
iPhone Plus
iPhone Ultimate (or some other word that clearly conveys high-end)
iPhone Edition will actually be called iPhone X, according to scoop of Dutch website iCulture
https://www.iculture.nl/iphone/iphone-x/