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2019 iPhone's Triple-Lens Rear Camera Design Allegedly Showing in New Renderings

thasan said:
Omg. That’s so damn ugly. Pls pls pls at least don’t make a bump. Increase the phone thickness instead
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Not just ugly, impractical as well. I use my phone on a flat surface often and the camera lens sticking out is really annoying.
 
Triple cameras? You know phones have stagnated when this is the best new thing manufacturers have to offer.
 
Fortunately this is nothing more than a render, because that design looks terrible.

I was thinking it would look more like this, but at least it looks More compact:

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The bump has to go. I do not believe that Jonathan Ive has seen any of the last few iPhones. How could he accept the bump existence and now an expansion of it?
 
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5232152 said:
The bump has to go. I do not believe that Jonathan Ive has seen any of the last few iPhones. How could he accept the bump existence and now an expansion of it?
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To me, the bump is an indication that Apple expects iPhone users to put a case on their phones. With a case, the camera bump does not matter.
 
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Hm... If this is all they can do to it I think I may just have lost the excitement for new smartphones. I mean I just bought the iPhone 7 for the second time cause I didn't see any reason to go with the 8 since it had nothing that in my eyes would justify spending another 200 Euros. Let alone spending 600 Euros more for the XS!

I mean the camera is great on the 7 already, the cpu is great already, the display is great already. Touch ID is perfect for my use case. The battery could be bigger and Siri could be improved a little which is an understatement. And I am missing the headphone jack like crazy especially when I take different headphones with me just to realize the damn dongle is on the other headphones!

I am getting more excited about the future of the Apple Watch that what Apple has planed for the iPhones.
 
usarioclave said:
As an aside, have you wondered why Apple's cameras are offset from the middle of the phone? I have android phones that have the camera in the middle of the phone, and it seems that the phone is a tad more difficult to hold if the camera is in the middle. Has anyone seen any writing on this? Apple is generally pretty good about symmetry, and it's surprising that nobody has noticed the blatant symmetry break of the camera.
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It's helpful to have the camera at the top. Having the camera in the corner allows the camera to be at the top in both landscape and portrait orientations.

With the camera up higher, people don't have to hold the camera up as high and can hold it more steadily.

Are you talking about putting the camera in dead center both horizontally and vertically? I think the would make it easy for fingers to block the camera while it's on portrait mode.
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Zenithal said:
Never understood the point of glass backs, even on Samsungs. Though this doesn't reach the nuttiness that Nokia's upcoming phone does with 5 camera lenses.
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Glass backs were reintroduced for inductive charging.
 
miflgr92 said:
I’d much rather Apple work on getting rid of the camera bump instead of adding another lens.
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For those of us that put phones in cases it doesn't matter so much.
I wonder how much of a bump they would need to get a zoom lens in.
Or just go for a single line array of fixed focal length cameras 1x, 4x and 10x sort of approach

Is there anything behind the camera module - if there was and they could lose that, then you would get your flush phone

Any one know the thickness of a camera module?
 
Hope they have something truly new up their sleeve
All I see here is them following a the trend. Just like the past few phones... late to the party on everything.
 
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That looks like an Android solution, no offense. I can’t imagine that is how the triple sensor set up will look. I don’t think we’ll see major design changes for a couple more years and I can’t imagine Apple moves to a triple sensor.
 
miflgr92 said:
I’d much rather Apple work on getting rid of the camera bump instead of adding another lens.
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Maybe Apple should offer two versions of its phones, with and without camera bump. The last phone without one was the iPhone 5s. Now, I am not suggesting that a new iPhone without a camera bump would offer the image quality of the 5s' camera. Sensors and image processing have advanced noticeably since then. The most tangible difference with a smaller camera/lens would be smaller sensor size and/or slower lens speed. The difference between the 5s camera and the Xs camera is about one stop in equivalent aperture (which combines sensor size and lens speed) and about half a stop for the sensor size alone. Though I am not sure the ratio for the tele camera wouldn't be larger.
 
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