{"id":55758,"date":"2016-04-18T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T09:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=55758"},"modified":"2016-04-18T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T09:20:21","slug":"could-there-be-an-all-glass-iphone-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/04\/could-there-be-an-all-glass-iphone-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Could there be an &#8216;all glass&#8217; iPhone 8?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/iphone-8-crop.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-8-crop\" width=\"760\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/iphone-8-crop.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/iphone-8-crop-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/iphone-8-crop-450x215.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Never mind the iPhone 7, numero uno Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, from KGI Securities, speculates that Apple&#8217;s most innovative iPhone of recent years\u00a0will be the iPhone 8.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To coincide with the iPhone&#8217;s 10th anniversary in 2017, Apple is rumored\u00a0to be introducing a\u00a0radical overhaul of the famed device &#8211;\u00a0while the iPhone 7, due to be released later this year, is expected to be simply a slight redesign of the iPhone 6S.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/iphone-8.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-8\" width=\"760\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/iphone-8.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/iphone-8-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/iphone-8-450x215.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple fans can expect to say goodbye to the signature aluminium frame and instead enjoy an all\u00a0glass design that sports\u00a0an innovative curved OLED display.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone 8 is also expected to have a new AMOLED display that will be thinner and lighter to compensate for the slightly heavier glass design.<\/p>\n<p>There may be a slight trepidation for those who remember the cracked backs that plagued Apple&#8217;s previous glass device &#8211; the iPhone 4 \/ 4S\u00a0&#8211; however improvements in material design and construction are expected to overcome these previous issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what do you think? Are you excited by the prospect of a radically different iPhone? Let us know in the comments below&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: small-caption;\">Original source: <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2016\/04\/17\/kgi-apple-to-drop-aluminum-iphone-casing-in-2017-in-favor-of-new-all-glass-enclosure-with-amoled-screen\/\">9to5Mac.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: small-caption;\">Concept design:\u00a0Martin Hajek, courtesy of nowhereelse.fr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind the iPhone 7, numero uno Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, from KGI Securities, speculates that Apple&#8217;s most innovative iPhone of recent years\u00a0will be the iPhone 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":55787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8208],"tags":[8066,8444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55758"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55781,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55758\/revisions\/55781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}