iPhone 9: All you need to know about the next iPhone (2018)

By reviews / 13. June 2018

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The iPhone 8 has been on the market for a little more than seven months – and that can only mean one thing: a new iPhone is right around the corner. Here’s everything we know about the iPhone 9, including the latest news, rumours and leaks, plus speculative release date, specs and pricing details.

While there’s little information floating around pertaining to what exactly Apple is working on for the iPhone 9, it’s easy enough to discern what’s coming and that’s because: 1) Apple is a creature of habit; 2) mobile trends tend are a doddle to spot; 3) we know what tech will be available at the time of release, thanks to patents.

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iPhone 9 Name: What will the next iPhone be called?

There’s no guarantee the next iPhone will be called the iPhone 9. In fact, there’s a good chance it won’t be. Why, you ask? Because, with the iPhone X – iPhone 10 – on the market, the iPhone 9 could be seen by consumers as a step backwards, which is something Apple may (understandably) be keen to avoid.

iPhone 8 Plus

Some tipsters claim the next iPhone will be called the iPhone 8s. It’s a prediction that makes a lot of sense – Apple has previously used the ’s’ suffix to denote incremental updates to existing iPhone models (think: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s), and that’s something 2018 could certainly offer.

It’s more likely, however, that Apple will simply ditch the numbers altogether – like we saw with the iPad 3, which was dubbed ‘the new iPad’ when it hit the shelves back in 2012. The same naming scheme was adopted for the 9.7-inch iPad 2018 that was released in April.

Here’s a recap of all the possible names for the next-gen iPhone:

iPhone 9
iPhone 8S
New iPhone
iPhone 2018

iPhone 9 Design and Specs: What does it look like, and is it powerful?

There’s no clear-cut answer to those questions. Much of what we’ve heard to date came in the form of dubious rumours, with little, if any, evidence to back them up. With that in mind, we’d recommend taking all the following information with a considerable pinch of your preferred seasoning.

Super Retina Display

When Apple announced the iPhone X, it said that the near-edge-to-edge OLED screen that debuted on the handset will set the standard for future iPhones, so it should come as no surprise to hear that there’s chatter claiming that the next iPhone will feature a near-edge-to-edge OLED.

However, a Wall Street Journal report from September 2017 threw lukewarm water on the rumour, claiming that Apple had expressed a keen interest in purchasing a large number of LCDs from Japan Display – expected to make up 70 percent of the firm’s total screen orders for the next wave of iPhones.

There’s no word on whether the deal went through, but based on the lack of gossip, we’re going to go out on a limb and say it didn’t. And that’s good because it means there’s a chance the iPhone 9 will come with an OLED screen after all – though we don’t quite know how large to will be.

iPhone X

Apple supposedly had plans to release three different iPhones in 2018: one with a 5.28-inch, one with a 5.85-inch and one with a 6.46-inch screen. Although word on the street is that the Cupertino company culled the former from its roadmap, instead opting to stick to what it knows works.

Korea’s ET News professes that Apple is working around the clock to bake the 3D-sensing hardware required for Face ID (more on that later) into the front-facing camera on the next-gen iPhone, in a bid to eliminate the dreaded cut-out at the top of the screen, which debuted on the iPhone X.

Face ID

If Apple decides to switch to an all-front, near-edge-to-edge OLED on the iPhone 9, it’s more than likely it will also do away with the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, replacing it with its Face ID face-recognition feature that made its first, and only to date, appearance on the top-of-the-line iPhone X.

Apple A12

It’s looking ever more likely that Apple will bundle a brand new, custom-built chip on the iPhone 9. Based on the firm’s current naming convention, it will be called the Apple A12 (the last one was the Apple A11 Bionic), and will likely off a number of battery and performance improvements.

For reference, the current A11 Bionic has two high-performance cores that are 25 percent faster than those of the two-year-old A10 Fusion and four high-efficiency cores, which are around 70 percent snappier than those found on the A10 Fusion, according to Geekbench benchmark results.

iPhone 8 (right) and iPhone 8 Plus (left)

The easiest way for Apple to improve its chipset is to migrate to a more efficient manufacturing process. The A11 Bionic is built on a standard 10nm process; that’s the distance between transistors – the smaller the distance, the more transistors you can cram in to boost computing power.

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A number of companies, including Samsung and TSMC – both of which have supplied Apple with components in the past – are working on a 7nm process that cuts the distance between transistors, so there’s a chance we could see the tech make an appearance on the much-anticipated iPhone 9.