Apple Suppliers Start Making iPhones With Force Touch
A customer tries out an Apple Inc. iPhone 6 at an Apple store in the China Central Mall in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014.
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Apple Inc. has started early production of new iPhone models with a feature called Force Touch, which senses how hard users are pressing down on a screen, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Its newest iPhones, in the same 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch versions as the current iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices, will have a similar exterior design, the people said. Volume manufacturing is scheduled to ramp up as soon as next month, they said.