Mark Gurman has become has published information about a future Apple product, so we could say that we already have reliable data about the product. He is the iPhone of 2017, which is known as iPhone 8 or iPhone tenth anniversary, and spoke of the important design change that will come the next smartphone from Apple, a change that should have come this year but it seems that we will not see within a couple of weeks.
With regard to the design, Gurman has not given many details that could not be fulfilled. As it is usual with him, has gone on “safe”, in quotation marks, and only talked about two of these changes: the display and the Start button. The screen has not said anything special, but that 2017 iPhone change will suffer a change that “focuses more on the screen by removing the Start button” and has quoted sources close to the issue.
Mark Gurman confirms the important change of design of the iPhone of 2017
If have in has that the young editor of Bloomberg unites in the same phrase it screen and the Elimination of the button of home, can imagine that the new iPhone or has the same size but the screen is more large or simply has a size similar to the of them models current, but deleted them margins that both hate some users.
Other rumors say that the tenth anniversary iPhone will use screen OLED, or at least the top model of the range. He or the iPhone using this screen OLED also would see another change in its design: a screen curved edges, which some say it will resemble the models EDGE of Samsung. The latter is something that would surprise me because it would be too obvious where would have borrowed the idea from Cupertino and I incline me more to think that there will be any major difference.
2017 iPhone will include a chip to Tap-to-Pay to make payments with FeliCa
But the main news for Gurman is that the iPhone in the coming year will include a new chip that will make use of a technology called FeliCa. This technology, developed by Sony, is a standard Tap-to-Pay (play for pay) that is used in Japan to make payments quickly in public transport.
The FeliCa chip will allow users store his bond bus or train on your iPhone. At the time of paying, users can put their phones into scanners instead of using physical cards. The FeliCa chip is a standard, but there are several providers of card payments in transit depending on the type of transport and the areas that are going to use in Japan.
Near Field Communication (NFC) technology is used more in Europe, America and Australia, but in Japan is not too used and rely more on technology FeliCa, where there are 1.9 million of compatible terminals and even spend some 46,000 million dollars a year. In comparison, in the United States there are only 1.3 million NFC Terminal.
Those payments FeliCa could arrive this year
Initially, Apple plans to get technology FeliCa-compatible iPhone this year, but seems more likely to have to wait for the coming year. The reason is none other than the same that Apple Pay has not yet come to many countries, negotiations with the Japanese system of payments that have not yet reached fruition. According to this information, we can not dismiss 7 iPhone comes with the FeliCa chip but cannot be used until the moment that the agreement between Apple and mobile payments system is closed.
In any case, we are talking about an iPhone to be released in more than one year and a new chip that will be, as a minimum, within two weeks. We have to wait to find out if Mark Gurman adds one success in their predictions.
