[amitparikh]

The Verge (among others) is reporting that the antenna is located along the top edge of the phone [1]. Photos of the Apple Pay gesture in action on the slides seems to corroborate this.

And my gut tells me that this is a secondary reason for why they moved the power button over to the right side of the phone (primary reason being to accommodate smaller hands with the larger screen sizes).

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6107091/apple-watch-iphone-...

[julianpye]

Thanks! That sounds indeed as if they tried to optimize the experience. Watching people try finding the NFC sweetspot by swiping the bottom of their device around on a reader deviceis painful.