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. Is is of the iPhone of 2017, what is known as iPhone 8 or iPhone tenth anniversary, and has spoken of the important change of design with which will come the next smartphone of the Apple, a change that should have arrived this year but that seems that not see within a couple of weeks.
With regard to the design, Gurman has not given many details that could not be fulfilled. As is usual in it, has gone on “safe”, between quotation marks, and only has spoken of two of these changes: the screen and the button of home. Of the screen not has said nothing special, but that the change of the iPhone of 2017 will suffer a change that “is focused more in the screen eliminating the button of home” and has cited sources close to the theme.
Mark Gurman confirms the important change of design of the iPhone of 2017
If we take into account that the young editor of Bloomberg joins in the same sentence screen and the Elimination of the Start button, one can imagine that the new iPhone or it has the same size screen is larger or simply have a similar size to the current models, but will eliminate the 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. It or them iPhone that use this screen OLED also would see another change in its design: a screen curve by them edges that some ensure that is will look to it of them 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 news main to Gurman is that the iPhone of the year that comes 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 (playing for pay) that is used in Japan to make payments quickly in transport public.
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.
FeliCa payments 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.
