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New 'iPhone 8' Renders Shared Online Based on Alleged Leaked CAD Images

Mobile phone leaker @OnLeaks (https://twitter.com/onleaks/status/862019493949779968) and tech blog @GearIndia (https://www.mysmartprice.com/gear/2017/05/09/exclusive-heres-our-closest-look-at-the-apple-iphone-8-yet/) posted a series of high-quality renders on Tuesday that claim to be based on leaked factory CAD images of Apple's upcoming OLED iPhone.





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The images offer perhaps the clearest idea yet of how Apple's redesigned "iPhone 8 (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-8/)" with edge-to-edge display may look with the screen powered off, if the company does indeed choose to sign off on a stainless steel-edged, all-glass design. The renders are based on the expectation (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/02/15/2017-iphone-edge-to-edge-display-virtual-buttons/) that the iPhone 8 will be 144mm tall, 71mm wide, and 7.7mm thick, making it slightly larger than an iPhone 7 (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-7/) but smaller than an iPhone 7 Plus, and slightly thicker than both.





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The pictures show the smooth front glass of the edge-to-edge OLED display, which is expected to lack any sort of button indentation in favor of an entirely virtual home button. The only visible features appear in a bezeled run-off area housing the microphone hole and a dual-lens front-facing camera, which is rumored to include 3D sensing capabilities (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/02/21/upcoming-oled-iphone-camera/), potentially for use in facial (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/01/18/iphone-8-facial-gesture-recognition/)/iris recognition or future augmented reality functionality.





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On the back we can see the widely-rumored (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/18/iphone-8-design-bloomberg/) vertical orientation of a slightly protruding dual-lens camera, a change from the horizontal arrangement used on the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.





The placement of the Touch ID (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/touch-id/) sensor isn't made explicit on these CAD-based renders and remains the biggest question mark concerning Apple's plans. Sources suggest the company has struggled (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/12/apple-struggling-with-touch-id-under-display/) to embed the Touch ID technology in the OLED display because of production challenges, which may force it to re-locate the fingerprint sensor to the rear of the device (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/13/potential-iphone-8-foxconn-render/), possibly just below the Apple logo.





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Apple is thought to be testing several prototypes for its redesigned "tenth anniversary" iPhone and rumors have toed (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/24/kuo-iphone-8-september-shortage/) and froed (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/08/iphone-8-production-on-schedule-september/) over whether production is behind schedule or on course for a September launch, when it is expected to be announced alongside the so-called iPhone 7S and 7S Plus. The last word on the subject comes from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ming-chi-kuo/), who implied that this year's shortage could be more "severe (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/09/iphone-8-supply-shortages-again-rumored/)" than in previous years, suggesting the phone could be hard to come by for several months after launch.

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Source: New 'iPhone 8' Renders Shared Online Based on Alleged Leaked CAD Images (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/10/iphone-8-cad-renders-images/)