I have the impression some "analyst" read the previous MacRumors article, looked at the "iPhone X" design which is based on the imagination of Gabor Balogh, and nothing else, then they mistook it for a real iPhone and started going off in an entirely wrong direction.
This is NOT a rumour. This is someone who took a phantasy product and thought it was real and then made up stuff to get a story. This is like taken a joke story that a newspaper publishes on April 1st, not getting the joke, and re-publishing it in your own paper on April 2nd with additional (freely invented) details.
This is NOT a rumour. This is someone who took a phantasy product and thought it was real and then made up stuff to get a story. This is like taken a joke story that a newspaper publishes on April 1st, not getting the joke, and re-publishing it in your own paper on April 2nd with additional (freely invented) details.