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Is it too early to talk about the next batch of iPhones?

Absolutely.

But when it's KGI securities analyst Ming Chi Quo doing the talking, one is obliged to listen.

It was about six months ahead of iPhone 6 that MC Quo spun the rumor the next iPhone will feature NFC capabilities.

He was right.

And now here stands the planet, metaphorically speaking,

likely six months away from whatever Apple is going to call the next iPhone, and even

that is up for discussion.

While the next iPhone would likely be on the S-curve, earning the names iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S plus.

Apple Insider has the KGI analyst saying that the next iPhone will be such a leap from the current iPhone that it may skip the whole S thing.

That would make the next iPhone, Apple's ninth or 10th if you count the iPhone 5c, iPhone 7.

But it's gonna be so special, aside from the increasingly incongruous

naming convention, Quo says it's all about Force Touch.

The piece had the analyst saying that Force Touch on the iPhone will represent the most significant

change to date in the iPhone user interface. Even as the world

begins the long slow wait for iPhone whatever the next one's going to be called

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