The iPhone 8 will have twice as much glass for you to break
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If you've worried that you are going to smash your iPhone's display, the next iPhone will have twice as much glass for you to worry about.
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According to photos of what are claimed to be iPhone 8 parts leaked on Reddit, the rear panel of the iPhone 8, along with the 4.7-inch iPhone 7s and the 5.5-inch iPhone 7s Plus, will be made of glass.
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The switch from metal to glass is to allow Apple to bring wireless charging to the iPhone.
The front panel features a thin screen bezel with a space at the top of the display for a front-facing camera, microphone, and speaker.
No Touch ID sensor hole is present in the front glass, suggesting that Apple will be switching to a fingerprint sensor that's embedded into the display.
The rear panel of the iPhone 8, in addition to being made of glass, also features the protruding vertically-aligned dual-camera.
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Note: The reason why iPhone case leaks are common is because case manufacturers will pay handsomely to get their hands on a case early to get a leg-up over the competition. However, this demand for prototype cases also means that there are a lot of fakes flying around that have been mocked up by opportunists, so take every leak with a grain of salt.
Even if this leak is a fake, it is still highly likely that the next iPhone will switch from a metal back to glass, because current wireless charging technology doesn't work through metal.
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