This Year's New iPhones Might Lose the Protruding Camera Lens

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According to a fresh report coming from website uSwitch.com, it seems that the slightly protruding camera lens on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus could become a thing of the past. The next-generation iPhones are expected to arrive next month, so in a few weeks we're going to be introduced to the real product.

Still, despite that, leaked CAD design renders suggest that the upcoming iPhones will still be a little thicker, measuring 7.1mm thick versus the current iPhone 6 with a thickness of 6.9mm, without the protruding camera. The schematics are sent by Apple to third-party case manufacturers ahead of the release of new phones.

Apple is believed to make the new iPhones slightly thicker in order to avoid another 'bendgate' scandal. Here are some more details:

Intriguingly, it also appears that the protruding camera that featured on the iPhone 6 could be missing from the iPhone 6S but will reappear on the iPhone 6S Plus. This possibility stems from the 6S Plus renders, which outline that it's 7.8mm thick.

That measurement takes into account the extra depth of the protruding camera, rather than the area that Apple measures for iPhones' officially listed dimensions, wherein depth is deemed to include the body of the phone and that alone. As indicated above, by this measure the iPhone 6S Plus is 7.3mm thick.

Conversely, with the iPhone 6S renders there's no such marked protrusion, suggesting Apple may have found a way to secrete the camera within the phone's shell.

However, it could just be that the design-guidance renders aren’t entirely complete and that the jutting lens will reappear when the iPhone 6S is officially unveiled.

Elsewhere, the design of both forthcoming iPhones would appear to be unchanged. From the screen-size to the location of the volume controllers to the home button, they’re largely indistinguishable at first glance from the current-generation models.

Source: uSwitch