Forget the iPhone 8 and iPhone X — rumors about next year's iPhones are already starting to emerge

The iPhone 8 and iPhone X are all good and great, but should you wait until next year's iPhone to upgrade?

To put it bluntly: If you need a new phone because yours has become too slow for your day-to-day use, it's time to upgrade. Just get the iPhone that's right for you - the iPhone SE, the 6S, the 7, the 8, or the X. Don't worry about next year's iPhones.

If you can wait, though, a few rumors have already popped up about what Apple has in store for 2018.

The rumors so far mostly center on the next-generation iPhone displays, which could tell us that a design overhaul is imminent, at least for the successors to the now "midrange" iPhone 8.

So far, however, there's no indication about the phones' nomenclature. It's still very unclear whether they'll be called iPhone 8S or iPhone 9. We'll just call them the "2018 iPhones" for now.

It's important to note that these rumors are very early, and there's plenty of time for Apple to make changes until it announces its new iPhones in September - and that's only if these rumors are even true in the first place. Take everything here with a grain of salt.

Check out what the 2018 iPhone rumor mill has in store so far:

The successors to the iPhone 8 will have nearly bezel-less front panels.

Apple's next midrange iPhones could have a bezel-less front similar to the iPhone X, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Specifically, Apple is supposedly looking into an advanced type of LCD display called "Full Active LCD," made by Japan Display. You can get an idea of what Full Active LCDs look like by checking out the Essential Phone (below) and the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2.

One thing to note about phones that use Full Active LCDs is that, unlike phones with OLED displays like the iPhone X, they all have at least one larger bezel, usually on the bottom.