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allows for bigger screen size, yet small overall form factor, easy to hold and use
*puts in year early preorder for iPhone 8*
*phone still gets back ordered until February 2018*
*phone still gets back ordered until February 2018*
Reasonable answer but how much more until there isn't anywhere to hold it, space for speaker slot, front camera, IR sensor, light sensor, etc? The "chin" could slim down a bit but then the phone is smaller so something else has to go with it.
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Nothing to gain from a steel case. Except to say it would be a steel case.aluminium is great on the macbook as it is, what about having stainless steel for macbook pro? would the hardware still be optimized for mac os performance?
Does that mean there won't be a curved display?..
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it practically didn't scratch.
That was my initial thought as well. I use a 6 Plus, and my small hands and pockets would welcome something along the lines of a 5.5" screen in an area typically occupied by a 4.7" screen.
I figured I could somewhat test that by grabbing my trusty old iPhone 4. Its certainly as small as you'd want to go, real easy to hold onto, and would certainly benefit from a larger screen. I also dug up a dead 5s to try the same usability tests.
Perhaps it would get more comfortable over time. Using one handed and moving around the device as if I was interacting with a much larger screen area, it was a bit awkward and a less secure hold while typing and swiping near the top and bottom edges of the device. And I had to shift the device in my hand anyway to service those top and bottom areas of the imagined screen with my thumb. Not an unqualified usability improvement for me. Those large bezels keep your interaction closer to the center of the device, where there's more stability. Yes, it's easier to transport and hold those smaller devices, but the ability to get around a larger screen is not improved. Once again, for me. If anyone has a different experience, please let me know. I've led a pretty sheltered life
A virtual home button frees up the bottom bezel for some serious reduction, but the top bezel needs area for speaker, camera, and sensors. And, futuristic mock ups showing usable screen covering the entire top of a device certainly look hot, but has anyone done this in a production device?
The SE proved you can pack most of the power of a 6s into the body of a 5s. What remains unknown is whether it's possible to pack a larger screen with 3D Touch into that same form factor. Or even just 3D Touch, disregarding a larger screen. I'm sure there are many reasons the SE did not get the full 6s treatment.
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Were those highly polished, easily scratched backs of early iPods stainless steel or just chromed steel? Either way, they sucked unless encased in InvisibleShield.
I had a brushed steel Motorola flip phone with a beautiful finish that could care less if it was stuffed naked everyday into a pocket with keys.
Just how far have we come since then?
That was my initial thought as well. I use a 6 Plus, and my small hands and pockets would welcome something along the lines of a 5.5" screen in an area typically occupied by a 4.7" screen.
I figured I could somewhat test that by grabbing my trusty old iPhone 4. Its certainly as small as you'd want to go, real easy to hold onto, and would certainly benefit from a larger screen. I also dug up a dead 5s to try the same usability tests.
Perhaps it would get more comfortable over time. Using one handed and moving around the device as if I was interacting with a much larger screen area, it was a bit awkward and a less secure hold while typing and swiping near the top and bottom edges of the device. And I had to shift the device in my hand anyway to service those top and bottom areas of the imagined screen with my thumb. Not an unqualified usability improvement for me. Those large bezels keep your interaction closer to the center of the device, where there's more stability. Yes, it's easier to transport and hold those smaller devices, but the ability to get around a larger screen is not improved. Once again, for me. If anyone has a different experience, please let me know. I've led a pretty sheltered life
A virtual home button frees up the bottom bezel for some serious reduction, but the top bezel needs area for speaker, camera, and sensors. And, futuristic mock ups showing usable screen covering the entire top of a device certainly look hot, but has anyone done this in a production device?
The SE proved you can pack most of the power of a 6s into the body of a 5s. What remains unknown is whether it's possible to pack a larger screen with 3D Touch into that same form factor. Or even just 3D Touch, disregarding a larger screen. I'm sure there are many reasons the SE did not get the full 6s treatment.
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Were those highly polished, easily scratched backs of early iPods stainless steel or just chromed steel? Either way, they sucked unless encased in InvisibleShield.
I had a brushed steel Motorola flip phone with a beautiful finish that could care less if it was stuffed naked everyday into a pocket with keys.
Just how far have we come since then?
Let's wait until the 2017 Key Note. We have no idea what Apple has in store. It's just a rumor.
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The only comment I have on this is Apple is heavily invested into the metals. I definitely believe we will see some form of metal iPhone aside from aluminum. Stainless seems like a possibility. Aluminum is much cheaper to manufacture than say stainless. Knowing this is a complete redesign, a change in the chassis is evident.
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*puts in year early preorder for iPhone 8*
*phone still gets back ordered until February 2018*
Honestly, there is no doubt in my mind this iPhone will easily be back ordered into the new year when it released. Mainly being its a complete redesign and ALOT of iPhone users skipped the iPhone 7 in hopes for the Tenth anniversary iPhone. Add this to the mix and a crazed cultic Apple following and you have one wild preorder coming.
Apple needs to ditch the rounded design and go back to the boxy iPhone4/5/SE design, albeit thinner of course lol.
Reason#1 Its slippery as ****.
Reason #2 It looks better.
Apple needs to reduce those side bezels as well, while they're at it, and ditch that symmetrical ****, and make the top bezel smaller than the bottom for god's sake - it'll shrink the device to a good size.
Oh yeah, bring the power button back to the top, it works way better - but this can only happen if they shrink the body as suggested above.
Reason#1 Its slippery as ****.
Reason #2 It looks better.
Apple needs to reduce those side bezels as well, while they're at it, and ditch that symmetrical ****, and make the top bezel smaller than the bottom for god's sake - it'll shrink the device to a good size.
Oh yeah, bring the power button back to the top, it works way better - but this can only happen if they shrink the body as suggested above.
Yeah it's called holding your iPhone from the sides like normal people. The top and bottom bezels are ridiculously large here in 2016. Happy to hear Apple is looking to reduce them in 2017. Hope it's true.
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Exactly. Which is why I find it ironic that Google is seemingly so late to copy something that most likely is finally changing next year with the iPhone 8. (If rumors prove true of course.)
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Besides them being tired, stale and outdated by today's standards? In theory, inner component workings aside, if the home button is going away the overly huge top and bottom bezel can be reduced to make for a smaller overall device, and greatly improving screen to body ratio.
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He's been consistently accurate and always first to report such things; he reported the iPad Pro 12 inch over a year before launch.
I believe it
Hi
The post is about next years iPhone "10"
The iPhone 7 prices are available on apples website (the 7 being their most up to date model)
Going to be tough to hold by the sides if the other absurd rumors are true. I am just not that worried about adding two or three millimeters of screen. The hyperbole regarding the "gigantic" bezels is tired. Raging about the bezels seems like demanding change for the sake of change rather than greatly improving function. Why not complain about the display still being a rectangle instead of the cool new triangle format!?!
The home button isn't going anywhere... at least not until retina scanning or something like that is a viable option. The camera modules are not getting any smaller either (Apple cannot change physics of optics). All the other sensors, ear speaker slot, etc. need a home that is not nested underneath the screen.
Surely just disable touch screen a few mm around so no negative touch while holding egde occurs?
I'm looking forward to zero basel.
Edge being used for 'ticker tape' notifications, news, text etc.
Also far more aesthetically pleasing IMHO and better use of important screen 'real estate'.
If you take it to the extreme and say I wanted a Mercedes but was upset I had to buy their vans or lorries to get the fastest, most luxurious model.
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They could have taken out the headphone jack to make way for the dual camera. Oh wait
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The analogy to cars is bad. Why should one be forced to buy a larger phone to get better features?
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Smaller objects are generally more expensive to make that larger objects.
I found iPhone 4 and 5 edge agtually hurt my hand after prolonged use - not good.
I love the curved edge of the iPhone 6 onwards I so hope that doesn't change to 'sharp' edges again.
My 6 is non slip and non scratch due to this case I use:
http://s.aliexpress.com/a6J7jIVf
and still super thin and lightweight.
There is a 'weak' spot on that case just by the camera lens that is prone to crack.
Like my screen protector I replace every 3 to 6 months or sooner if crack occurs, for that 'new phone look'.
I believe Macrumors does normally say if the analysts have any credibility or not. I believe this source has a pretty good batting average if I am remembering it correctly.
You should try to know the difference between 1) when he reports things that he has heard from sources, which are almost always accurate and 2) when he makes typical nonsense predictions as any analyst does. He is not citing sources here. He is saying I THINK based on Jet Black popularity.
For the thousandth time, there is positively ZERO evidence that Apple is even considering a glass phone, and edge to edge to display, or ditching the home button.
Unfortunately long gone are the days when you just bought "THE" iPhone and it meant that you had the best gadget on Earth. Creating the Plus model already shattered this, especially that the differences between the two are not only restricted to size. I also hope that Apple won't further complicate the lineup.
OLED for the high end model and out dated tech (LCD) for other iPhones..how stupid..I mean all iPhones are high end products to begin with,and Samsung has been using OLED for ages in their phones..this superior tech was ignored all these years and now all the sudden it's accepted and only for the most expensive model? that's BS.