Kuo, who seems to have the inside trouser measurement of things Apple and correctly predicted the comedy iPhone SE back in November 2015, said that Apple is not going to release any major re-design this year. He said that the biggest iPhone redesign could be saved until 2017.

That is when Kuo believes Apple will release an iPhone with a 5.8inch OLED screen with a curved, almost edge-to-edge display which will be made of glass. The large-screen 5.8inch iPhone is also expected to be smaller than the current iPhone 6S Plus, thanks to its slimmer bezels and possible removal of the physical Home Button.

He added that Apple is preparing wireless charging and iris or facial recognition for the 2017 iPhone model.

So where does that leave the iPhone 7 which is supposed to hit the shelves this September? Basically it will be the same design as the iPhone 6 with a few minor tweaks. These will include removing the antenna lines across the top and bottom and a better zoom. It will also drop the drop the industry-standard 3.5mm headphone port in favour of an additional speaker grill at the base of the device.

This will mean that Apple will be able to make the device thinner and mean that Apple fanbous can still think they are getting a new phone when if they are buying more or less the same phone which is slightly thinner and has a better chip in it.

We are not sure that this move is particularly wise. It is as if Apple is saying "2016 is going to be rubbish we might as well not try and compete this year and let ourselves lost market share to Samsung."