Apple iPhone 6S likely to get ‘rose gold,’ be less bendable
Apple’s (AAPL) next iPhone will add a “rose gold” color option and use a stronger case that is less susceptible to bending, a problem that plagued some iPhone 6 handsets, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a research report Tuesday. The iPhone 6S is due out this fall. With the new color option, the top-of-the-line iPhone family presumably will come in four designs: silver, space gray, yellow gold and rose gold, AppleInsider reported . Kuo described the rose gold edition of the iPhone 6S as a luxury model, but did not say how much it would cost. He also didn’t specify whether the rose gold model would be made of actual gold like the recently released high-end Apple Watch Edition, which starts at $10,000. Current iPhones are just gold colored. The ninth-generation iPhone also will incorporate the Force Touch input technology used in the Apple Watch….