6 Things We Already Know About the 2028 iPhone

[MeasterHD]

Gonna replace battery and back cover on my 15 Pro Max and will continue journey until face id will be under the display.

 

[1ppl3]

Given how fragile Apples glass is, and how expensive it is to fix a cracked phone, who is going to want this? And if you want a case, well that's kind of making the whole point of it redundant.

No cases gang here. What the point of buying a beautiful piece of engineering and putting it on the cheap plastic crap … when ppl doesn’t understand the real value of the product or they are just want to safe for the next trade in program to have more value and basically never experienced the real product itself … Sadge

 

[miq]

All of this is speculation.

Lol exactly

“Six things we already know….”

Article consists of six rumoured changes 🙄
Why is MR so consistently poor with article headlines?

 

[ddhhddhh2]

Here is the thing about design. If we decide to add or remove a feature, the first question we need to answer is why.

Style should come from function. You should not make something a certain way just to fit a certain style. That is what minimalism is really about.

Minimalism does not mean removing everything. It does not mean turning curves into straight lines, turning straight lines into curves, removing a beam here, or removing a button there. That completely misses the point.

So with that in mind, let us take another look at the wraparound screen, the display on the side, and the ultra-thin design.

What real need does the side display actually serve? Is there something users truly need that cannot be done without a screen on the side? Or is it possible that this need does not even exist in the first place?

And what do we actually gain from making the device extremely thin? What do we give up in return? When you compare the small benefits against the cost, is an ultra-thin body and a side display really worth it?

Most users are going to put a case on the device anyway. Once the side display is covered by the case, all you can really see is some light coming through. The other option is for companies to make cases with the sides cut open, leaving only a thin strip between the front and the side. Otherwise, the very feature that supposedly needs a wraparound side display would stop working properly, would it not?

Good design should put function before form. Style should come naturally from that. It should not be the thing you chase.

 

[w_aldo]

🥹 you haven’t heard of the new technology being used for mobile photography to vastly improve low light problems? And other revolutionary advancements.

You can’t “new technology” your way out of physics

The more MP, the smaller each pixel is. You can introduce pixel binning but it’s much more advantageous to just have bigger pixels. You are far more likely to notice the noise in the image than you are to notice the difference between 24mp and 200mp

 

[Unami]

Is this better than my 6s?

Define "better". It'll probably be heavier, to big to be used with one hand, won't have a heaphone jack, 3D touch and a home button but sport a huge camera hump, a black dot in the middle of the display and a design with vulnerable edges that aesthetically suffers more from being put in a case than the 6s and will have a glass back that will break more easily. So, depends.

 

[Plutonius]

The article's title says "Things we know" while the article itself says expected.

Expected is not known.

Some of my best photos were taken with cameras with a larger sensors but less MPs.

I hope Apple puts in larger camera sensors rather than adding more MP.

 

[kerr]

“Narrower bezels”

I have to LOL, are we supposed to believe that the bezels can be narrower every couple of years?

iPhone 25 new features includes narrower bezels

iPhone 57 new features includes narrower bezels

 

[darngooddesign]

You mean Machine learning, or AI over processing?

Sorry but the physics of capturing photons onto a sensor (or substrate when using film) is a factual matter. 200 Megapixel such as in Samsung and other phones are specs for specs sake, and really nothing more.

No, quad pixel sensor designs. Also, night mode is basically exposure stacking which is a traditional method for reducing low light noise, but phones do smart things like varying varying shutter speed for the different exposures if it detects motion so the moving objects have reduced motion blur while the rest if the photo uses stacked longer exposure times.

But sure, yeah, it’s all just dumb AI.

 

[georgefelix]

Don't do this Apple, for God's sake! Curved screen, no way! A curved screen is a disgrace on a phone with a glass screen; there's no protection. This will definitely be my way out of Apple.

 

[DocMultimedia]

Next week: What we know about the 2029 iPhone...

Bigger, faster, stronger, six million dollars. 🤣

 

[indychris]

Seems like the title should be Six Things we Already THINK we Know about the 2028 iPhone (but we really don't so we use words like 'report' and 'expected' and 'more likely'.

 

[allpar]

I'm reading this and thinking that we have a very disconnected group of designers at Apple. The sheer cost of almost trivial "improvements" and styling changes is outstanding.

I like my iPhone 15 quite a bit. To me the only things that could improve it "might" be having an AI compatible chip, though I'm not sure I'd even use that; better iOS and mail software — usability improvements, working search (I know they finally tackled that); and a better telephoto camera, which they appear to be working on. The battery life is stunningly good.

But... while I value more screen size, the bezel does serve an actual purpose in reducing accidental touches.

 

[Astuces iOS]

🥹 you haven’t heard of the new technology being used for mobile photography to vastly improve low light problems? And other revolutionary advancements.

What new technology hahaha… Make the sensor bigger and you will get more light ! Or use AI 🤨 no thanks

 

[txmike418]

Any rumors about a bug free iOS?

 

[citysnaps]

Given how fragile Apples glass is, and how expensive it is to fix a cracked phone, who is going to want this? And if you want a case, well that's kind of making the whole point of it redundant.

Probably a good chunk of Apple's 230 million customers who purchase iPhones every year.

 

[boswald]

Solid glass phone with thin bezels? Yes, please! But alas, probably priced into the stratosphere.

 

[ralph_sws]

This is what it will look like, as shown in the picture, and the cost of replacing the screen will be enormous. No screen protector will be able to protect it

 

[ZeromusZeromus]

Let's see, so when the time comes I can pay about a hundred bucks for a new battery for my 14 pro and use it for another four years, or I can pay over one thousand dollars for....some curved glass?

 

[Dead0k]

I thought curved-glass displays died from its natural death back in Samsung times

 

[BornAgainMac]

These features makes me feel like the Duff Beer commercial on the Simpsons and what Duff Beer secret product development for the future.

 

[Sami13496]

Maybe the iPhone Fold won’t end up taking the crown as Apple’s dumbest gimmick product after all. Now when this new contender entered the game for that title.

 

[topmounter]

All "Tock", no "Tick". Still no good reason to replace my 13 Pro Max as long as the battery keeps holding up.

 

[macbookj0e]

USB-D that’s like USB-C but thinner, longer and more phallic-shaped.

Anything but USB-D 🤣

 

[Mr_Ed]

No cases gang here. What the point of buying a beautiful piece of engineering and putting it on the cheap plastic crap … when ppl doesn’t understand the real value of the product or they are just want to safe for the next trade in program to have more value and basically never experienced the real product itself … Sadge

Perhaps “people” are not the ones failing to understand here. The fact that so many do just that (use a case) should tell you that to most people, the phone is primarily a tool. Your “beautiful piece of engineering” ceases to be that the instant it hits a hard floor, possibly along with whatever utility it serves as a tool. As much as Apple would like to pretend in marketing materials, phones are simply not pieces of art for most people, never were, and will likely never be.