Here's Everything We Know So Far About The Upcoming iPhone 7

Back in the day we got most of our updates from Teletext. It was a simpler time, when if it wasn't on a shitty black, white and yellow screen, it wasn't important.

Now, it's sadly faded into the background. I feel great sadness in the fact that when my future child asks 'when's tea ready?', I won't be able to reply 'have you check Teletext?', like my dad did to me.

Anyway, these days the biggest updates anyone's arsed about is what camera the next iPhone will have, if it'll come in 17.5 different colours, and if it'll be able to make you a brew.

Unfortunately, the upcoming iPhone 7 won't be able to make you a decent cup of Rosie Lee, but it is shaping up to be pretty good.

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So far, we know that the update of the iPhone 6 won't be getting rid of the 'camera bump' that pisses so many people off. Despite this let down, the new camera will reportedly boast a new laser auto-focus module between the camera and the flash.

A few months ago rumours also began that the camera will have a superior dual camera lens, improving the quality of pictures; which is bad news for chronic selfie takers who are getting increasingly frustrated with the improvements of Apple's cameras showing their poor features.

It's also looking like Apple have completely scrapped the headphone jack, something that was alluded to earlier this year. This will mean that bluetooth headphones will be needed, which probably means a hell of a lot of battery will be used up when listening to music on public transport. Whether wireless headphones will come as standard with the new handset is unknown.

The lack of headphone jack reportedly makes room for a new additional speaker grille, according to 9to5 Mac.

Various 'leaks' also indicate that the antenna bands have been moved closer to the top and bottom edges of the device, and appear to be smaller; which to me means absolutely nothing, but maybe that's important to non-technophobes.

Rumours have suggested that the removal of components like the headphone jack will help Apple to make the iPhone 7 fully waterproof and dust-proof.

In terms of design, the iPhone 7 looks pretty identical to the iPhone 6, apart from being slightly bigger.

The final rumour that seems to be very prominent across the internet is that Apple have ditched the 16GB, and handsets will instead start at 32GB with a 256 GB high-end option.

Words by Mark McGowan

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Mark McGowan

Mark is a journalist at LADbible, who joined in 2015 after a year as a freelance writer. In the past he blogged for independent football fan channel Redmen TV, after graduating from Staffordshire University with degrees in journalism and English literature. He has worked on campaigns such as UOKM8? and IIOC.