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Analyst - believes Apple working on a new
look for 2017

Apple will completely redesign its iPhone range in 2017, rumours
suggest, and will ditch aluminium for an all-glass construction.

That’s according to a report from unerringly accurate analyst Ming-Chi
Kuo, reiterating previous claims he has made about Apple’s plans for
its tentatively titled iPhone 7s.

Kuo’s report appears to back up the growing belief that Apple will
only offer minor design changes with this year’s iPhone 7, due
out in the autumn.

Instead, it seems that the Cupertino company is pouring its efforts
into releasing a cutting-edge device next year.

As well as using a glass design, something last seen on the iPhone 4s,
Tim Cook and co are also thought to be plotting the
 inclusion of a brighter OLED screen.

The latter is likely to offset the increased weight of glass compared
with aluminium.

The news Apple is willing to hold on for another year to get the look
and feel of its flagship phone right are surprising at a time when rival
phone-makers are coming to market with ever-improving designs.

This will be the first time it has not followed a so-called ‘tick, tock’
approach to updates, where Apple's ‘s’-branded phones offer improved
 specifications but feature designs unchanged from the previous year's
model.