Matthew Panzarino on Twitter:

Get real. Unlocked buyers won’t care. It will cost everyone else $10/mo more. This is the dumbest argument in history of Apple pricing.

I’m really not sure why it took so long for something like this to be said or why it had to be said at all. People are so upset by the price, not realizing that’s what they’ve been paying for years without knowing.

Nick Salerni for iPhone in Canada:

The black colour on the iPhone looks incredibly stylish, complete with little details like the shade of the antenna bands. Another thing we can clearly see is the absence of a 3.5mm jack on the bottom of the unit and a total of two speakers.

My concern here is the “S” badge that appears on the back of the device. This goes counter to almost every report and doesn’t add up with Apple’s naming structure at all. That said, this looks really sharp. I’m really hoping that we end up with this colour option when the phone is presumably announced sometime in September.

Gary Ng for iPhone in Canada:

What is Apple going to name the next iPhone? According to the latest rumour from Apfelpage.de, Chinese supply chain sources cite the next smartphone upgrade will be called ‘iPhone 6SE’, not ‘iPhone 7’.

This makes total sense, given how little cosmetic changes are apparently going to be coming to the new device(s). Not to mention, the prior leaks that Apple would be abandoning the tick-tock update schedule in favour of a three year update cycle (6, 6S, ?).

While the next iPhone will certainly be worthwhile for users to update to, I’m thinking we see the big changes arriving next year, including OLED screens, potentially an edge to edge display, and more alongside a logical naming jump from iPhone 6SE to iPhone 7.

Dieter Bohn for The Verge:

There’s a consistent use case for 3D Touch: “peeking” into the thing that’s being linked. So you can peek in camera functions from the camera icon, you can peek at an email without opening it from your inbox, and you can peek at a website when somebody sends you a link. I expected that 3D Touch would be a slew of hidden menus and options, but so far Apple is always giving you hints about what you’ll get: a peek into whatever it is you’re pressing on. Smart.

This looks like such a cool feature. I can already imagine many exciting ways to implement on the phone, both by Apple and third-party developers. It’s really nicely implemented on the phone, at least from the coverage I’ve seen of it. Apple’s making it seem pretty enticing to be upgrading on the S cycle.