The next iPhone is coming. Apple will probably call it the iPhone 7. Leaks and rumours regarding the phone's exteriors have been doing the rounds for a very long time now. Not much was however known about what could be inside the iPhone 7, until now, that is. Some exciting piece of information now comes, courtesy benchmark website Geekbench, and by the looks of it, the next iPhone could very well blow your minds away. The iPhone 7 is said to be powered by Apple's next-generation A10 processor, which is said to be as powerful as the company's A9X chip that is inside the iPad Pro tab.
Geekbench has apparently benchmarked the A10 chip and found it score an impressive 3,000 on single-core benchmark, which is just 10 points short of A9X. Apple's current-generation A9 chip meanwhile scores just 2,519 on Geekbench single-core benchmark test in comparison.
The iPhone 6S was just an incremental upgrade of the iPhone 6. But with the iPhone 7, Apple is eying to make 'everyone' want to upgrade, and speed could be the all-important formula. Preliminary leaks haven't been kind to the next iPhone, and the fact that it could ditch the regular 3.5mm audio jack in favour of a new standard hasn't gone down well with many. Having said that, Apple has been long known to chuck industry standards, and every such instance has always been met with criticism to begin with. Only to be followed by others in the industry, in the days to come.
A video doing the rounds on the internet meanwhile shows off the alleged iPhone 7 in all its glory confirming some of the other leaks regarding the next iPhone. Prominent stand-outs include, repositioned antenna lines that now occupy the upper and bottom extremes of the device and a significant camera bulge on the rear indicating a bigger (and better, hopefully) sensor inside. As for the long-rumoured dual-camera apparatus, that seems to be reserved for the iPhone 7 Plus (and Pro).
The iPhone 7 (and its variants variants) recently made their way to Chinese social website Weibo, giving out pricing and memory details of the upcoming batch of iPhones. To begin with, it looks like Apple may have finally given in to consumer demand and chucked out the 16GB base SKU. The iPhone 7 is said to start at 32GB base storage this year. Moreover, the maximum storage option this time round could stand at 256GB.
As for the pricing, the iPhone 7 is said to start at Rs 52,880 for the 32GB variant and go all the way up to Rs 70,880 for the 256GB SKU. The iPhone 7 Plus is meanwhile said to start at Rs 60,880 for the base 32GB variant and go all the way up to Rs 78,880 for the top-end 256GB variant
