Ming Chi Kuo has once again delivered a note to his investors, and when this happens we have to talk about something that is very likely to become reality. The latest published by the famous analyst of KGI Securities It is something that most users will like, if not all: despite the fact that this year three iPhones will be launched and there will be three different ranges, all iPhones from 2017 will feature wireless charging.
The differences between the three iPhone of 2017 or iPhone that will coincide with the tenth anniversary of the apple phone will be in other points. For example, Kuo claims that wireless charging increases the internal temperature of smartphones, so he expects the iPhone 8, the one expected to have OLED screen and glass case, have a new 3D Touch module with an "extra graphite foil" to prevent the device from malfunctioning due to overheating.
KGI: all iPhones from 2017 will charge wirelessly
Although we do not expect users to notice any difference, the additional graphite foil is necessary for better thermal control and thus stable operation. This is because the FPCB is replaced by film, which is much more sensitive to temperature changes than the 3D Touch sensor on the OLED iPhone.
Initially, the new 3D Touch module only would add $ 5 to manufacturing cost of the iPhone 8, but we already know how all this works and those $ 5 help us to think that the most important iPhone of this year will be priced above $ 1.000. Keep in mind that we are talking about the US price, where the iPhone has a lower price than in Europe, that is, if it costs $ 1.000 there, we can think that the entry model will have a price of € 1.100-1.200 here as long as the rumors are fulfilled.
In any case, we are going to stay with the good news that comes to us from the last analysis of Kuo, and that is that all the iPhone of 2017 will have wireless charging. It's something.
