iPhone 11 release date and rumours: Could the iPhone 11 cost half of what the iPhone X did?

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It's rumour time! While we're still months away from a potential iPhone 11 or iPhone XI launch, the rumour mill waits for no man, and is continuing to churn out hot reports on what the iPhone 11 will eventually look like.

The latest on the scene is that the iPhone 11 – or whatever it will eventually be dubbed – may retail at a much lower price point than its predecessor, Apple's iPhone X, which retailed at a cool $999 (£999). KGI analyst and renowned Apple commentator Ming-Chi Kuo dropped the tidbit that Apple is gearing up to launch a 6.1in iPhone this year, which will reportedly retail at much more affordable $550 (£390 with the exchange rate, although a £550/£500 price point is more likely given precedent).

What's more, a new report from the Taiwanese publication, Economic Daily News, suggests that when the iPhone 11 does eventually arrive, it will be kitted out with three fancy new rear cameras.

Citing industry sources, the report claims that the next iPhone will have three 12-megapixel cameras on the rear and a 5x zoom. There's no information on what kind of zoom it will use (optical, digital or a hybrid of both), but if we want to get an idea of what the triple-lens camera will look like, we just have to take a look at Huawei's new P20 Pro smartphone.

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The new P20 Pro has a primary 40-megapixel f/1.8 lens, a 20-megapixel f/1.6 monochrome lens and an 8-megapixel f/2.4 telephoto lens. The P20 Pro does, however, have 3x optical zoom, so we're not sure if the 5x zoom is accurate, depending on which type of zoom the report is talking about.

The bad thing? It apparently won't be released until 2019. That doesn't mean we won't be getting an iPhone 11 this year, but it might mean that we won't see a triple-lens camera until the third-generation iPhone X is released.

You can read more about what Apple has in store for the iPhone 11 or the iPhone XI – we still don't know what it will be called – below.
Apple iPhone 11: Everything we know so far about the iPhone XI

The iPhone X is still in its infancy and you've already set it aside and moved on to the hypothetical iPhone 11? What the heck is wrong with you? It's a great phone, and you should give it the attention it rightly deserves. No? Well, seeing as you aren't leaving, I suppose we ought to give you the lowdown on everything we know so far about Apple's iPhone 11. Spoiler: it's not a whole lot.

Yes, 2018 will see the return of the iPhone. Again. As night follows day and the seasons run their annual cycle, so does the yearly hyped up iPhone launch, with 2018's handset expected to make an appearance almost a year on from the iPhone 8/8Plus/X unveiling. Apple is ever so predictable these days.

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Of course, Apple may not decide to call it the iPhone 11 – the iPhone X proves that the Californian giant actually does have some creativity in its naming structure – but we're going to call it the iPhone 11 for the time being, at least until we hear any official information, okay?

Whatever the future holds, you'll find absolutely everything you need to know about the iPhone 11 so far in our handy explainer below, including the expected launch date, a spot of healthy price speculation, and what we would like to see in terms of design and specs. Let's begin.