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4.7-Inch 'iPhone Air' Shown Off In New Concept Video

VanillaCracker said:
Sure it's a marketing gimmick, but compare a 720p screen to a 1080p screen and tell me you don't prefer the higher PPI.

When this 1080p iPhone comes out, it's going to make the iPhone 5's ~720p screen look awful.
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What I prefer is better battery life.
 
Bezels on mobile devices are GOOD things. You need to hold your phone, not rest it on your hand. You might want to put a case or bumper around it. If anything scuffs or chips (even sapphire) it's at the edges. Please leave my little bezel (and the screen size war) alone. :)
 
mdelvecchio said:
it's entirely dependent on your viewing distance. past a certain distance you cannot distinguish the difference of those TVs. likewise w/ phones. if the use case for normal usage is at a point where the difference is no difference, then they wont do it.
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At the distance you use an smartphone you clearly see the difference between a 720p and a 1080p screen
 
ionjohn said:
What I prefer is better battery life.
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Well lucky for you as a phone gets bigger they also put bigger battery's in the phone. Therefore you're going to have better battery life. I have yet to see a phone that put a 1080p display in the phone over the 720p in the previous generation and actually decreased the battery life.
 
VanillaCracker said:
Well lucky for you as a phone gets bigger they also put bigger battery's in the phone. Therefore you're going to have better battery life. I have yet to see a phone that put a 1080p display in the phone over the 720p in the previous generation and actually decreased the battery life.
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If it doesn't decrease battery life, it sure does decrease performance.

Edit : "It's impossible to add more pixels to a device without needing power to run them. Some types of panels like AMOLED only light up pixels as they're needed, which means you can conserve some power by using darker themes, but LCD displays will light them all up no matter what, which requires more juice"

So yeah, if apple goes 1080p on their new iphone and still uses IPS displays, we better have a real big battery
 
Here is a side view of my concept of the iPhone 6 Slight, a new device taking thinness to a new level:

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It is 1920x1280, 4.66 inch screen, longer battery life, base 64 gigs of ram, with A7 processor. There are no jacks in it. Wireless charging and Bluetooth replace all traditional ports. There are no more physical buttons, it is all software based.
 
Arndroid said:
Here is a side view of my concept of the iPhone 6 Slight, a new device taking thinness to a new level:

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It is 1920x1280, 4.66 inch screen, longer battery life, base 64 gigs of ram, with A7 processor. There are no jacks in it. Wireless charging and Bluetooth replace all traditional ports. There are no more physical buttons, it is all software based.
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64 GB of RAM?
 
Bigger Springboard

I'd definitely want more stringboard real-estate if i was going to get a phone that big. This doesn't seem to show that.
 
Simmias said:
Why do people waste their time on these concepts and mock ups? They don't give us any real insight into Apple's plans and are always only skin deep. The worst are the software mock ups - it's easy to design a clean-looking interface in photoshop, but they rarely take into consideration all the usability concerns of actual software. The whole thing is a very odd type of fan fiction.
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Tends to be people learning 3D modelling techniques practising their modelling and animation skills. This guy has done a reasonable job in that respect and I am sure this will take pride of place in his showreal.
 
johncarync said:
I just ballparked it but I think this is a good representation of how the current 5s compares to the envisioned 6.

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Except that would lead to more fragmentation. The iPad mini and iPad Air use the same pixel dimensions for everything, it's just that the iPad mini icons are scaled down to be the same size as iPhone icons.

So to imagine a bigger iPhone, scale up the icons so that they're the same size as the full-size iPad icons. But you'd also lose PPI. Maybe it could run at a much higher PPI and then use a scaled resolution to keep the UI dimensions proportionally the same as the iPhone, so that developers don't have to develop for so many different resolutions.
 
SAL8116 said:
Come out with a 5.5 inch and Apple wins me back.
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If apple releases 2 different sized iPhones your wish (mine too, though I'm still loyal) will come true.

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johncarync said:
I just ballparked it but I think this is a good representation of how the current 5s compares to the envisioned 6.

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4.5-4.7 inch screen fits inside the current body of the 5s what makes you think it will be that much bigger?
 
ionjohn said:
Edit : "It's impossible to add more pixels to a device without needing power to run them. Some types of panels like AMOLED only light up pixels as they're needed, which means you can conserve some power by using darker themes, but LCD displays will light them all up no matter what, which requires more juice"
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LCD screens use backlight(s), which can use less power when lighting up all the pixels. Apple is also supposedly working on some new backlighting with lower power. Of course, a transflective LCD would be even better, since it can use ambient light as the backlight source.

Simmias said:
Why do people waste their time on these concepts and mock ups?
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It's Apple fan tradition for the artsy users to show off their skills.

Personally, I'd love for someone to do a Jon Ive animation, giving a lecture on how Apple made a bigger display ONLY because they figured out it was a magical size, and oh by the way, they're not doing it for the money.

Could be comedy gold.
 
I'm holding out for the Magic iPhone Nano Pro.

(I too enjoy stringing Apple product names together and hoping they'll make something to match).
 
Why do people care what the phone looks like. It's the OS you use not the phone. The phone is just a container for the screen and several antenna.
 
Apple, Don't make this iPhone unless you make the battery TWICE as big because I'm tired charging my phone 4 times a day. I'm not interested in features that do not include a larger battery. I dont want a thinner phone, I dont want a lighter phone. I want a phone that works when I need to use it, one that has power, one with a battery that is large enough to actually use the phone all day.
 
Great video, great phone! I would happily buy it... However im not sure about the sapphire backing. I don't think apple would do it due to its cost.

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Sym0 said:
Why do people care what the phone looks like. It's the OS you use not the phone. The phone is just a container for the screen and several antenna.
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Because we are Apple users.
 
This looks pretty good. But it's just concept from some guy on Youtube, is this REALLY worthy of being posted by MacRumors?

If we'd just get a bigger battery, NFC to shut people up, and an 1080p retina screen, this would be a success.
 
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