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2018 iPhone X Successor Could Feature Up to 10% More Powerful Battery With New 1-Cell Design
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I don't see how the 6.1" edge-edge lcd display version is possible as there isn't room for a backlight in such an enclosure. Hence why the iPhone X uses an OLED display.
EDIT: Please ignore this
EDIT: Please ignore this
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I think the rumored 6.1 LCD model is very possible according to Kuo. I believe Apple will offer one more LCD iPhone in 2018 before the transition is fully made to OLED in 2019.
Consumer Reports rags on iPhones X's battery life:
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/05/iphone-x-consumer-reports-ranking-below-iphone-8/
Ming-Chi Kuo suddenly claims the next one will be better; coincidence or damage control?
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/05/iphone-x-consumer-reports-ranking-below-iphone-8/
Ming-Chi Kuo suddenly claims the next one will be better; coincidence or damage control?
So what dies here? Or is Apple adding yet another variant of iPhone to the line up next year ?
One of the new phones reverting to a metal back also. Odd.
One of the new phones reverting to a metal back also. Odd.
CR are imbeciles...they also say ip X has the best camera...no pixel 2 has it
also they say the battery usage is better in S8...wrong, with my S8 i never got over 6 hours of battery usage 100-5%, and with my iphone x now with ios11.2 i get 7-7.30 min
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so this year we had classic iphone 8 and iphone 8 plus design + iPhone x
next year we will have also 3 new phones but all with the same design, but with different displays
So just the classic design dies here, along side touchID
No chance Apple won't be selling iPhone 8 and 8 Plus next year which is practically a classic design albeit with a glass back. More realistically the 7 and 7 Plus will still be around the way the 6s and 6s Plus are now.
Interesting that there is no mention/speculation that Apple will reduce the price point on these OLED/X devices. Was the theory not that the price hike was necessary due to the cost of the components? Hard to think that cost of those components wont have come down in a year/eighteen months. Presumably when they do Apple just takes a bigger margin, offsetting any potential sales decline with higher ASPs. Classic Tim Cook.
I definitely read that somewhere, although obviously I can't find it now. You're right the Essential phone has an edge to edge LCD display. So I was wrong.
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Although I'm positive I read an article supporting my assertion, it appears I was wrong. The next post down pointed out the Essential phone has an edge to edge LCD display. More reading and more coffee are both clearly required on my part.
So long as all the other phone makers promise to do as Apple are doing (standing still and rehashing old tech) then a decent battery might work well.
i was talking about NEW iphones
And yes, the iphone Plus will take the price tag of the current iphone X,and the 5.8" will have a price cut of 100$
The essence of this article is that Apple would be listening to customer complaints (via its chinese sensor testicle Ming) which would be astonishingly good news.
So happy hiking to the hardliners here: keep up the good work.
We're Steve's longer arm !
So happy hiking to the hardliners here: keep up the good work.
We're Steve's longer arm !
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Classic Tim Cook hate.
2017 iPad at $329; iPhone 7 and 6S series dropping $100 just 2 months ago, Series 1 Apple Watch at $249, AirPods at $159, iPhone SE dropping from $399 to $349
You don’t realize gross margin has decreased from over 40% when Cook took over to less than 38% in the last quarter, do you?
That is impossible, everybody knows that everybody would prefer more battery life over a lighter phone. [/sarcasm]
Personally, I would rather have a one or two day battery and have the device remain as thin as possible. When I need my phone to last for a week, I would just bring my (pretty compact) 20,000 mAh power bank with me. I think it's a better compromise than having a heavy and thick phone I have to carry around all the time.
I would plea for a replaceable batt in that scenario (+ microcel for live exchange)
Which doesn't rule out your Powerbank btw
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Shouldn't this guy get his own website by now? And what happened to doubling down on security etc.
I'm saying that it's weird that an analyst has made a career out of 'guessing' often accurately what Apple will be releasing, especially when it's this far ahead.
I'm saying that it's weird that an analyst has made a career out of 'guessing' often accurately what Apple will be releasing, especially when it's this far ahead.
Apple's gross margin has fluctuated between 31 and 47% over the last ten years. Since the third fiscal quarter of 2008 (which coincides with the release of the iPhone 3G), it has stayed above 36%. Except for three quarters in 2012, it has always stayed below 42%. Steve Jobs died at the beginning of Apple's first fiscal quarter of 2012. If you use that date, then Jobs presided over seven quarters with a gross margin over 40% and Cook over six quarters with a gross margin over 40%.
You can argue that Jobs presided over an era of increasing gross margins (but that ignores much of the phase between 1997 and 2005) and Cook over a relatively stable one (if you ignore the year 2012). But the rise of the iPhone (and the rise of its competitors) over the last ten years is such a big influencing factor that drawing any specific conclusions in regard to the impact of the CEO is spurious at best.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263436/apples-gross-margin-since-2005/
Gross margin shouldn't be the main focus for a corporation of this mammoth size. Optimizing it would make Apple a single product company with all the associated risk. With their other (relatively meagre) efforts, that's currently more and more reality now.