The most innovative – and unlikely – aspect of this iPhone 7 concept from Scavids is that it runs Android, not a move that either Apple or Google would ever countenance. For some users, though, it might provide the best of both worlds: sleek, desirable Apple hardware with the flexibility of Google's operating system.
Long before reports suggested that Apple was working on a buttonless iPhone, Martin Hajek had come up with a concept model that achieves a similar end, on his design, the screen extends to the edge of the frame, transforming the iPhone's home button – one of the few features that has remained constant since the first model. Instead of a mechanical push-button, Hajek imagines it as an indented, touch sensitive spot, which would incorporate the TouchID fingerprint reader.
This iPhone concept fits somewhere in between the standard and Plus-size handsets, with a 5.1-inch screen. Designed by Joseph Farahi, the model looks impossibly slim, but at 6.1mm it is only 0.8mm slimmer than the iPhone 6. Combining elements of the previous two concept models, it takes the bright silver edge detailing and applies it to a handsome flat slice of aluminium.
Before the launch of the iPhone 6, Lewi Hussey took a larger leap in imagining a flexible version of the device. The concept is a tweaked version of the iPhone 5S, with one major difference – the glass screen and metal frame can be bent out of shape (without causing the damage that occurred when the real iPhone 6 did start to bend in skinny jean pockets).
Grisha Serov's concept is also inspired by the Apple Watch, but in a more subtle way. His design retains the existing profile of the iPhone 6, but adds the gentler curves of the new smartwatch, and replaces Apple's trusted aluminium frame with one made from the stainless steel alloy it developed for the watch.
