Apple leaks and rumors are a few of the greatest, and the most recent one is fairly juicy. If true, the corporate will introduce three new iPhone designs in three straight years beginning in 2026 — a foldable iPhone, a bezel-free iPhone, and a clamshell-style flip telephone. This is not the first report of a foldable iPhone, however little is understood in regards to the reported flip and bezel-free designs. Yeux1122 posted the leak on the Korean running a blog platform Naver and it supposedly is predicated on an trade report by a parts-research firm.
A consultant for Apple didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Foldable telephone
These are nonetheless unconfirmed rumors, however as with something involving the favored iPhone, they stir curiosity. If they’re right, the primary foldable iPhone will arrive in 2026 and can fold aspect to aspect like a guide. It could have a 7.8-inch creaseless show, two rear cameras and Touch ID. One rumor stated Apple might embed Face ID within the telephone’s display screen. The rumor additionally says the telephone will promote for almost $2,000.
Apple continues to be the one main phone-maker that does not but have a foldable telephone.
Tech author and investor M.G. Siegler of Spyglass, a tech-analysis web site, says that Apple believes “they’ll swoop in with a perfected model” of different foldable and flip telephones already in the marketplace.
“The ‘iPhone Fold’ might be probably the most fascinating, as a result of Samsung has been making them for years and even Google is a pair iterations in at this level,” Siegler advised CNET. “They’ve gotten fairly good, however Apple should be trying on the crease downside and the shortage of particularly tailor-made software program for the machine as a possibility — particularly as a result of it is fairly simple to see a world during which the iPhone Fold, unfolded, is fairly much like an iPad mini.”
Bezel-free telephone
Leaker Yeux1122 additionally stated Apple will launch an iPhone with out a bezel in 2027, which marks the twentieth anniversary of the primary iPhone. A bezel is the body that surrounds the iPhone display screen and offers structural help in order that the show will not break while you drop the telephone. Shaped like a “flat sweet bar,” the bezel-free iPhone could have an OLED show that can “bend” round all 4 telephone edges. It can even have Face ID, in response to the leak.
Going bezel-free has been a notion for over a decade. Apple reportedly explored the design for the iPhone 6 in 2014. Samsung Display, which makes most iPhone screens, reportedly began engaged on it in 2023.
“This is a no brainer because it’s clearly what Apple has at all times envisioned as the best model of the iPhone product,” Siegler stated. “Just holding a slab of glass, because it have been. They’ll clearly tout it as the largest flagship improve because the iPhone X, 10 years prior, and it’ll most likely work from a advertising perspective.”
Flip telephone
According to Yeux1122, Apple may cap off the flurry of latest designs with a flip mannequin in 2028. In distinction to the folding mannequin, the flip iPhone would fold vertically like a clamshell. One of the 2 screens could be extra utilitarian, with AI shortcuts and a notification window.
The flip will reportedly be a extra trendy mannequin, focused on the “ladies’s” and “vogue” markets.
Siegler stated he “can see the enchantment” of an iPhone flip telephone after proudly owning a Motorola Razr again within the day.
“I think about individuals who don’t love carrying round more and more larger slabs of their pockets may be intrigued by such a kind issue,” he stated.
iPhone Air gross sales stoop
Apple hasn’t shied away from different new telephone kinds. The iPhone Air, which is the slimmest iPhone ever, launched in September, however rumors are that demand has been weak for the slender telephone. Apple reportedly lower manufacturing ranges drastically to just about “finish of manufacturing ranges” due to sluggish gross sales.
“This sudden curiosity in new kind components is simply as a lot about Apple attempting to ‘get again to its roots,’ because it have been,” Siegler stated. “After all of the egg on the face with AI, my learn is that Apple might have taken a step again and realized that amidst all of the AI hype, everybody nonetheless must run all of this newfangled expertise someplace — a ‘flight to security,’ as I’ve written about.”
