If speculations from Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, of KGI securities are true, there will be a new iPhone coming early 2016. This is not a flagship unit, but a two-year-old model of the iPhone 5s, which is in between Apple's 4 inch-screen models.
The new iPhone model is supposedly named the iPhone 6c. As for the 5s, which was the first Apple flagship phone with a TouchID fingerprint sensor, it didn't have the full ApplePay NFC support for when users want to shop. Recently, Apple updated the iPod Touch with the A8 chip, and it is rumored that the 6c will share specs with it. It will, however, cost lower for the older A8.
In 2014, Apple launched this feature in their iPhone 6, so leading it to the 6c would imply enough development as ApplePay starts gathering traction. The concept of the iPhone as a more universal business device is possible to expand next year; many also remember that the iPhone 5s is still on the market even if it was launched a couple of years ago, which is a more universal business device. Furthermore, the smartphone was switched by a plastic-bodied 5c in a profusion of colors. The tech media tagged the product as a flop and it didn't cope with the original sales objectives, as the iPhone 5c only sold ten million.
The 6c won't have a plastic shell. It should feel and look like a luxurious iPhone. It will also be tiny to cope with the smartphone standards. With the huge success of bugger-screen iPhones in profit numbers, and with the almost disappearance of smaller screens of Android phones, these imply that the iPhone 6c won't be a blockbuster. Kuo views full-year sales of about 20 million by next year, which is less than 10 percent of the total iPhone volume in 2016.
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