New CADs claiming to show the upcoming iPhone models launching in September made their way to the web, providing us with an early look at what Apple’s next-generation smartphone could look like.
These designs, which reveal all three iPhones debuting this year, namely the iPhone XI, iPhone XI Max, and iPhone XIR, corroborate all the existing information on the new smartphones.
For example, the trio comes with a square camera bump on the back, with the iPhone XI and iPhone XI Max being upgraded from two cameras on the existing generation to three different cameras.
At the same time, iPhone XIR boasts two cameras, up from a single lens on the original iPhone XR.
No change in notch dimensions
The bad news is that the notch appears to be at least as large as on the iPhone X and iPhone XS, so there’s no improvement in this regard. In fact, aside from the square camera bump on the back, there’s little to set these models apart from their predecessors, as the design is pretty much the same as on the original iPhone X.
These CADs do not provide any information on the connector that Apple is going to use on the next models. Apple has long been rumored to give up on Lightning for USB-C, but the angles used for these CADs do not allow us to tell if the switch is indeed being made or not. Lightning and USB-C are similar in size, therefore it’s hard to tell from these photos which one is being used.
The 2019 iPhone generation will be the last one to include an LCD model, as Apple will make the full switch to OLED beginning with the 2020 series. iPhone XIR is thus expected to use LCD, whereas its 2020 successor will be upgraded to OLED too, just like its more expensive siblings.
Via SlashLeaks [1, 2, 3]
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