The Apple company is preparing a major change for the design of its iPhones, and it was to take place only from 2017, so that iPhone 7S it will have a glass case and not aluminum like the terminals launched in recent years by the Americans.
Change will not affect iPhone 7, which will have an aluminum case and a design extremely similar to that of the iPhone 6S, so The iPhone 7S is the one that will bring the major changes that everyone expects from Apple's line of devices.
The change comes as an attempt by the Apple company to differentiate the iPhone terminals from the existing Android smartphones on the market, glass being used for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S cases, the terminals whose design was the most appreciated of the entire line.
The iPhone 7S will have an AMOLED screen and a glass case
Cu iPhone 7 Apple will enter the fifth year in which it uses aluminum cases for its smartphones, and starting from 2017 the percentage of iPhones produced that have aluminum cases will decrease from 100% to only 40% or even less.
If iPhone 7 still uses an aluminum casing in 2016, it will be the fifth year in a row that iPhone has done so, which means there is no longer a feeling of freshness to appeal to consumers. Also, a lot of Apple's (US) competitors are also adopting aluminum casings, which means iPhone no longer has a clear edge due to a lack of differentiation. On expectations that iPhone shipments will decline in 2016, we believe Apple will be more strongly motivated to use non-aluminum casings in 2017 in a bid to enhance the competitiveness of iPhone by offering an all-new form-factor design.
Although everyone expected that iPhone 7 to bring a major change in the design of iPhone terminals, Apple is not in a hurry to offer something like that, so only from 2017 we will have a new case and probably a different form of the terminal.
The interesting part is that The iPhone 7S will have an AMOLED screen, so we are talking about a serious upgrade prepared by Apple for 2017 and a lot of people could avoid this year's models waiting for the iPhone 7S and iPhone 7S Plus to be released.
Apple already uses glass casing for iPhone 4/4S, and non-Apple brands have also been using glass casings. We therefore think a drop test will not be problematic for glass casing. A glass casing may be slightly heavier than an aluminum one of the same thickness, but the difference is so small that the use of the thinner and lighter AMOLED panel will compensate for that.
That being said, if you're expecting a big change for the iPhone line, then 2017 is the year it will come.
