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Alleged 'iPhone 8' Component Leaks Continue With OLED Display Assembly, Lightning and Power Flex Cables
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Well, i'm glad it's not that abomination.
[doublepost=1503332167][/doublepost]Touch ID is gone, just accept it. Too many rumors and proof showing Touch ID disappears.
"Apple is expected to announce iterative "S" cycle upgrades to its existing iPhone 7 line-up next month"
^^^^I am with John Grubber on this - I think all phones will be named iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 8 Pro; or
iPhone, iPhone Plus, iPhone Pro
Otherwise, other than price, why would anyone buy this S model?
^^^^I am with John Grubber on this - I think all phones will be named iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 8 Pro; or
iPhone, iPhone Plus, iPhone Pro
Otherwise, other than price, why would anyone buy this S model?
You realize this has more bezels than the iPhone right? Bezels aren't just on the top.
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Maybe they'll add some dynamic brightness-feature which simply pushes and maximizes the brightness of the display just at the bezels in a way that it _feels_ like there's no one. Think of an reverse 'Ambilight'
Now THAT would be sweet! Sure would burn your eyeballs at night though. Might be worth anyway
Could we see ProMotion display in the next iPhone, or will I wait for this time next year??
If they don't have ProMotion in the phone this year, but a leak points to next year, then I'll wait another year for sure.
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Why wouldn't price be important? The 7S will be a standard S upgrade, just like all the previous S models that sold fine. It'll still have the fastest processor. The 8 will just be bells and whistles, and a somewhat fugly design, for $100-300 more. This is to your average consumer, anyway. The 7S looks hot, with the glass back.
Hence the "maybe not" portion of my post.
Honestly I dislike both solutions, they are not elegant at all.
I'm sure they'll show a video where they say it's brethtakinly beautiful, uncompromising, attention to detail, how much they love it and all that good Tim's Apple rethoric.
Maybe it's the only solution that current technology allows, however aesthetically, personally I find it lacking.
No. I held one during a closed testing. They are going all in on facial recognition.
Yeah I agree, the push for bezel-less is more of a technology push, not design push.
I personally think the Huawei 6p was a really nice design, for my individual taste and style.
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One thing really gets to me as being uncertain about the experience with facial recognition. What do you think of the situation below.
If it's going to be really really good, it needs to have an extremely wide angle.
If that's the case, it's undoubtedly going to have many use cases where it has several people in it's vision while attempting a scan. How will it determine when to unlock? Sure, the user will be the only one there most of the time. What if you have a group of friends in the room, maybe 3 on the couch, and your phone is placed on the foot rest in front of you. What if a friend reaches over and tries to unlock your phone? I would assume the phone would just scan all the faces, recognize yours as being one of them, and unlock. If it were just you, you'd want the phone to unlock in that situation. However you don't want other people unlocking your phone just because you're around.
Likewise, if you're in a grocery store, or an area with lots of faces in the scanner's vision, again, it will see several faces (including your own), and you'll want it to unlock. What separates these two use cases? It seems like an inherent problem.
Wow, Apple leapfrogged everyone else in the bezel dept. Just, PLEASE Apple don't ruin it with the function bar.
Agreed...I am on S train and will get it again this year - while I can afford it, I am not into paying $1200+ for a phone - I think $969 is a 'fair' price considering the Note 8 will cost that or more.
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If people wear motorcycle helmets or ski masks, i can guarantee that they' ll also have gloves on , under those circumstances, so touchid wouldn' t work either.
It differentiates by taking the face in the center of the screen as the priority. In this area, the iphone 8 performed really well when they showed it to us for testing. The only issue we had was when your face was too far away from the phone (about arms length) or when there was too much light/glare interfering with the ir camera. It still needs some work and they are still collecting some "samples" from the field to fine tune it.
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Thanks for your reply.
I'm glad to hear that it works fine for those general purposes. Your comments about the process are extremely disappointing to me though, as it shows that it will not be nearly as convenient as touch ID, which allows me o pull my phone out of my pocket, and have it unlocked with my thumb by the time I start looking at it. I would hazard a guess that this is huge for people who commute, or live in a major urban area, like myself.
Maybe it does, we will all know for sure once the new iPhone is announced.
I think they are both fugly.
One is like a weird cyclops and the new iPhone has that hideous unibrow.
So it turns out, like all prototype devices, they just decided to go without Touch ID anyway and rely 100% on Face ID. I think it makes sense because, when I thought about it, you want to be able to use your phone seamlessly by picking it up and having your finger in the main area and not reaching first for the touch ID sensor.
It's a good move by Apple, but it does mean I'll have to get over my old habits.
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To address the rumor aspect, I got this information second hand from an Apple employee; Apple tests many prototypes. For example, the the first iPad Pro had 4GB of RAM, but it came out with 2 GB at release. The iPhone X prototype had a sandwiched touch ID but it obscured the screen a bit.