Next year's iPhone won't have a home button, report says

It's telling that, days before the expected launch of iPhone 7, we're seeing more rumors about the next year's iPhone. The consensus among the reporters and leakers who follow Apple is that the iPhone 7 will only bring minor upgrades compared to last year's model, while the iPhone that comes in 2017 will be a far more revolutionary upgrade. 

A new Bloomberg report reiterates this notion, saying it's likely that the 2017 iPhone will undergo a major redesign that shuns the home button and "focuses more heavily on the display."

We've seen the rumor about the home button being replaced by a touch-sensitive button in June, and Bloomberg itself corroborated that report in August. But that was for the iPhone 7; the new report claims the next year's iPhone won't have a home button at all.  Read more...