iPhone 7

To the unpretentious, most smartphones come in black, white, gold, silver, grey and pink. Some are a little fancier, red, yellow, green, blue, orange, brown and purple, but to handset designers they have more specific names.

The iPhone 8 is not set to be unveiled until September, but leaks are already making their way onto the internet about the device that will mark the 10^th anniversary of Apple’s iconic smartphone.

Rumours of a larger 5.8in display and a ‘Function’ area, possibly a TouchBar similar to the Macbook Pro, hint that Apple are going all out to bring an innovative new handset for 2017.

Here we look back over the last ten years and see how the ground breaking series of smart phones have evolved.