Video clip lends credence to iPhone 7 rumours

A Dutch tech blog has featured a clip supposedly from a Japanese iPhone reservation store of three iPhones ready to be launched. Though they are not claimed to be the real deal – they were marked as mock-ups, but that lends credence to the rumour that there would be an iPhone 7, an iPhone 7 Plus, and an iPhone 7 Pro.

According to commentators, the clips came through reputed sources and made sense in the context of all the speculation that has been heard about Apple's 2016 iPhones so far. In a month or so it would be known for certain.

Meanwhile, Forbes reported that from what appeared to be a production sample of the iPhone 7 Plus, Unbox Therapy had bared many of the hardware features of Apple's phablet. Forbes' Gordon Kelly reported on the changes to the smartphone design and the new features confirmed by the leaks, which Apple cannot prevent with the device said to be in production for September launch.

''In a detailed hands-on we see all the major hardware changes coming to the larger 5.5-inch model including the radical dual lens camera, the missing headphone jack (a prediction I made two years ago), twin external speakers, the inclusion of a Smart Connector and the widely rumoured new blue colour option for the first time.

Using digital calipers Unbox Therapy host Lewis Hilsenteger also found the new iPhone 7 Plus to be fractionally slimmer than the current iPhone 6S Plus. That said at 7.14mm to 7.18mm this is both within a margin of error in the calipers and the construction of the chassis itself so I wouldn't read much into that. As it stands the iPhone Plus range is still massive and remains the largest 5.5-inch smartphone in the world.''

According to some sources, Apple would bundle wireless headphones with the next iPhone, while others claimed Apple had redesigned its wired EarPod headphones to connect via the Lightning port.

Also according to some reports from the supply chain, the iPhone 7 would ship with the current-generation EarPod headphones as also a Lightning to 3.5mm adapter.