Apple is expected to release its iPhone 8 later this year, in what is expected to be the company’s biggest smartphone launch in years, Mirror has reported.
2017 marks the tenth anniversary of the original iPhone , which was first announced by Steve Jobson 9 January 2007, and released later that year on June 29. Given the momentous occasion, rumour has it that Apple has been holding back some of its most groundbreaking features for this year’s model.
According to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a track record of leaking accurate information on Apple products, the iPhone 8 could ship without a TouchID fingerprint scanner.
Kuo doesn’t go into any more detail about how Apple will replace TouchID, but notes that “3D sensing for facial recognition” will be a part of the iPhone 8, suggesting that Apple could replace fingerprint scanning with facial recognition or eye-scanning tech.
There’s one upside to Kuo’s prediction; he says that because Apple won’t need to bother with scanning your digits, there’ll be no delay in production.
“As the new OLED iPhone won’t support under-display fingerprint recognition, we now do not expect production ramp-up will be delayed again (we previously projected the ramp-up would be postponed to late October or later),” he wrote, according to MacRumours .
