Ditch the home button and replace it with a haptic one.
Apple already has patents for a virtual haptic home button.
Apple already has patents for a virtual haptic home button.
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Huh? The 3G is taller than the original iPhone?
Nah, its just that the pic is not to scale.
I still say that a monolith design would be cool. Paul Miller over at The Verge (and Engadget before that) has talked about this for years. Imagine a phone that literally looks like a thin piece of black slate. It wouldn't have any hard edges anywhere and the screen would not be apparent until you turned it on, sort of magically appearing (kind of the way the LED display of the Nike FuelBand works).
I think there would be a lot to like about such a design. It would have a very natural feel to it, almost as if it was from nature with its rounded edges as if it had been sitting at the bottom of a raging stream for 100 years like a river rock. It would be very easy to hold with a great ergonomic design, and would look nothing like any phone we've ever seen.
There's nothing more minimal than something that looks like a piece of rock with no stand-out features anywhere on it until you light it up.
I think there would be a lot to like about such a design. It would have a very natural feel to it, almost as if it was from nature with its rounded edges as if it had been sitting at the bottom of a raging stream for 100 years like a river rock. It would be very easy to hold with a great ergonomic design, and would look nothing like any phone we've ever seen.
There's nothing more minimal than something that looks like a piece of rock with no stand-out features anywhere on it until you light it up.
No, that looks like it would be uncomfortable to hold in my hand. especially if it's going to be freakishly huge.
And the OS would still have to be decent.
Found this today with the title "People's expectations for the new iPhone"
Thought it was fitting.
Thought it was fitting.
I believe that was the point of the GIF. People sometimes expect the impossible but they are looking for this type of wow factor in each new iteration of the iPhone. They just don't realize they won't get it.
And then people would start complaining in droves about the "massive light leakage" design flaw.
They could make the home button haptic and just change the reset duties to a volume button, they could also get rid of the mute switch they could make the sleep button a slider that can be pushed in both positions yet slides to mute the phone, and in place of the mute switch I would place the smallest led known to man that could also be defeated for those that don't like that notification light. Also on the software side they could make the home screen wide open for all notifications that matter to the user, integrate static quick settings into the search window and allow smart apps that could be more informative ala windows mobile