Is this what the iPhone 7 will look like? in pictures

With the next iPhone destined for release some time around September 2015, designers are already mocking up how the handset may look. While we're unsure of what it will be called, either iPhone 6s or iPhone 7 are the most likely contenders. Designer Martin Hajek envisioned the iPhone 7 as smaller in size than the iPhone 6 (pictured on the left) in a collaboration with Business Insider.

The imagined new phone features a reduction in size between the screen and the home button, while the speaker has been repositioned to the top of the handset.

 

A breakdown of how the components of the iPhone 7 could look. It's been rumoured the next handset could contain a camera offering quality to "rival a DSLR" using two lenses.

 

The front-facing camera and speaker component within the handset's display

 

A second design sees the display taking up the entire front of the iPhone 7, with the physical home button embedded into the screen.

 

The bottom of the design is largely the same as the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. It's possible the next Apple handset could finally sport a full sapphire glass display - widely rumoured for the iPhone 6, but allegedly thwarted by manufacturing problems.

 

A concept design of the iPhone 7 by designer Steel Drake envisions a more compact camera than the slightly-protruding lens sported by the 6 and 6 Plus models, and a reduced power button. The new handset will benefit from higher specifications and new features, most likely through the next iOS 9

 

The designer has also created these stylish visions of how the iPhone 8 could look, complete with new casing

 

Steel Drake also ponders the return of the coloured backs first introduced with the iPhone 5c, which came in an array of five pastel shades.

 

Russian designer Grisha Serov 's vision does away with the physical home button altogether, and features the 'Edition' tag we already know one of the three Apple Watch versions will be named.

 

Sharper, more angular and bigger than ever - designer Jan-Willem Reusink's take on the latest model

The new iPhone could make a return to sharper edges, whereas the 6 and 6 Plus smoothed them over