"The new 5.5-inch iPhone is equipped with wireless charging and waterproof function" and the top of iPhone supplier companies mentioned

About Apple's new iPhone, which is expected to be announced in the fall of 2017, CEO of Wistron, a Taiwanese company forming part of iPhone's supplier, reveals that "Wireless charging and waterproofing is installed."

Wistron confirms waterproof, wireless charging for new iPhone - Nikkei Asian Review
http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/AC/Wistron-confirms-waterproof-wireless-charging-for-new-iPhone

Wistron CEO let slip that upcoming iPhone will be waterproof and have wireless charging | 9to5Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/14/wistron-ceo-iphone-waterproof-wireless-charging/

According to Nikkei Asian Review, Wistron CEO Robert Hwang said at the shareholders' meeting, "Although the manufacturing process of the previous terminal has not changed so much, new functions waterproof and wireless For charging, another inspection method is required.As for waterproof function, we will adopt a somewhat new assembly process. " Wistron is considered to be receiving orders for the production of the new iPhone along with Hon Hai Precision Industry (Hon Hai) under the umbrella of the Foxcon Group.

The fact that the top of the company actually producing the iPhone talked about the situation of the production line, it seems good to believe that the reliability of information is quite high. In the past around the new iPhone, there was also a person who seems to be an internal official of Foxconn leaked detailed size etc of the main body with reddit.

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The tentative name "iPhone 8" is a terminal with a display with a size of 5.5 inches, and is expected to be a high-end terminal of the iPhone series going further on the conventional model. With regard to waterproofing, Apple already has waterproof, waterproof, and dustproof capabilities compatible with IP 67 grade at iPhone 7/7 Plus, but at Apple, "Liquid damage is not covered under warranty" as a disclaimer We are raising. One of the causes is seen as the Lightning terminal used for charging, but it is also fully conceivable that waterproof and dustproof performance will dramatically improve by installing wireless charging.

From around the summer, information on various new iPhones has leaked to the dispensers, and the expectation gradually expanded has become a poetry of the past few years. It is only a few months until the whole picture of the new iPhone becomes clear.