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Alleged 2019 iPhone Rear Chassis Appears on Chinese Social Media With Triple-Lens Camera Markings
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This. There will be a reason we get this weird looking thing, and I'm 90% sure that it's something to do with depth perception of the camera, whether it's to enable Lytro camera style bokeh on any object pre/post image taken. Or something, something, AR. There is going to be a reason for it.
The only thing I can't figure out is, it would definitely look less hideous centrally aligned on the device, so why is it staying in the corner? Beyond "courage", of course.
Ironically, from my experience....thickness/thinness is the only thing, nontech people seem to comment on when it comes to phones. I am fine with how thick iPhone is now (though it got thicker on the recent years) but thicker than what it is, I think would be ridiculous on today's standards.
Phones are just becoming the new Razorblades, with the race to add a new lens comparable to adding yet another blade to the head of a Gilette razor.
And why oh why must we also fight for the thinnest casing where possible, i.e. having the bottom right corner thinner than the top left where the cameras are housed - it's just ridiculous. I'd rather have the whole phone the same depth as the camera section of the phone so that it's all flush, rather than have the housing deeper meaning my phone can't lie flat on my desk/table/charger etc. If it means the overall depth of the phone is a couple of mm extra then so be it, fill that space with slightly bigger battery cells.
And why oh why must we also fight for the thinnest casing where possible, i.e. having the bottom right corner thinner than the top left where the cameras are housed - it's just ridiculous. I'd rather have the whole phone the same depth as the camera section of the phone so that it's all flush, rather than have the housing deeper meaning my phone can't lie flat on my desk/table/charger etc. If it means the overall depth of the phone is a couple of mm extra then so be it, fill that space with slightly bigger battery cells.
Those mock-ups are horrendous. It can't look like that can it? CAN IT? Someone reassure me immediately! 
That looks so ugly. What the hell is Apple thinking.
Based on the rear chassis, and if it's actually legit, it's pretty easy to extrapolate how the camera bump will look based on current design. It's going to look hideous.
Those mock-ups are horrendous. It can't look like that can it? CAN IT? Someone reassure me immediately!
Based on the rear chassis, and if it's actually legit, it's pretty easy to extrapolate how the camera bump will look based on current design. It's going to look hideous.
Between this chassis and the larger battery rumors, I think we may see a return to a no-bump design, with much less emphasis on the camera unit as a shape on the back of the phone
If this is accurate it's the lack of design & innovation that's the problem. They keep trying to cram more into the same chassis design footprint that we've had for the last 2 years.
If Apple wants to be innovative in this category, improve the sensor and lens where you only need one and not multiple. Adding more each year is just...looking unappealing. Keeping the phone too thin make it difficult to improve the lens.
And speaking of appearance, the only part I constantly see of my Xs while is on the table is the bottom with asymmetrical holes and an ugly band on the left.
There are tons of beautiful cases I can chose from, so give me the best possibile phone and forget the look
I would actually take it a step further and say that the majority of people outside a tech site really don't care about how the phone looks, full stop. Apple could make the ugliest phone this side of Neptune but I still wouldn't look at any other phone purely because of the experience I get with iOS. Until the apps I use are improved tenfold on Android, I would never consider switching.
Wow, they're really doing it eh? I really thought it was a joke with those first renders. Presumably they'll give the rest of the camera section the same color glass housing as the rest of the back of the phone.
But speaking as a Apple fan - even if they color it, this is ugly. If they were to raise the rest of the phone back so its even (and get even larger batteries as a consequence) then it'd be fine. But this big 1/4 of a raised phone back doesn't look good.
But speaking as a Apple fan - even if they color it, this is ugly. If they were to raise the rest of the phone back so its even (and get even larger batteries as a consequence) then it'd be fine. But this big 1/4 of a raised phone back doesn't look good.
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It’s true you can’t see. But the back of an iPhone is an advertising banner for Apple. Those Apple logos in the back of iPhone, iPad, MacBook draw attention and then they see the ugly camera bump. You know the rest.
Could live with it except the positioning of the flash. Maybe they've got something intuitive lined up for the flash and it wont just be plonked there?