Apple iPhone 7 could be slimmest yet

The Apple 6s hasn’t even been officially announced yet but people are already turning their attention to the next generation of Apple handsets.

KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo says that he’s already got some insider information on what’s coming next for Apple and the iPhone 7. And the word is that the new handset could be the slimmest yet from the American tech giants, measuring between 6.5mm and a tiny 6mm. The current iPhone 6 is already a svelte design and it measures at 6.9mm, so it will take some serious re-engineering to drop down that waistline.

In many cases when manufacturers decide to make their phones super slim you also great a trade off in important areas like battery life. We’ve also seen that handsets can become very warm to the touch without adequate space between internal components. Apple will no doubt be testing all of the variables over the next 12 months, if these rumours are partly accurate.