It’s sounding more and more like the iPhone 8 won’t arrive until nearly the end of 2017, a couple months after Apple usually introduces new iPhones.
The latest sign comes from Ming-Chi Kuo, the reliable KGI
Securities analyst, who says mass production of the iPhone 8 may not
start until October or November, according to 9to5Mac.
There are almost always reports ahead of every iPhone
launch saying that Apple is going to have limited supplies of its new
phone, but the situation this year seems to be quite a bit different.
Apple typically starts mass production of new iPhones several months
before they’re announced and still faces supply constraints. If Apple
isn’t beginning mass production on the iPhone 8 until October or
November, they’ll almost certainly be hard to come by until early 2018.
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Kuo’s assessment adds to the mounting evidence of a delayed — or, at least, severely supply constrained — iPhone 8. Just last week, Bloomberg reported that the iPhone 8 could be delayed by “one or two months,” and Mac Otakara is also expecting a delayed launch.
The general consensus is that the iPhone 8 will feature a
new design with an OLED display and a nearly bezel-free look. That
means the phone will do away with the iPhone’s iconic home button. Apple
is also rumored to be adding wireless charging and a front-facing camera with Kinect-like abilities to track motion in 3D.
More and more images purporting to be leaked iPhone 8
parts and schematics have been coming out over the past few weeks to
back all of this up. The origins of these photos are basically unknown,
which means there’s very, very good reason to be suspicious of them, but
they at least offer an idea of what we’re expecting to see this fall.