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Alleged Leaked Image of iPhone 7 Shows Touch-Sensitive Home Button

When I get iPhone 7, I'm just gonna erase that circle and have no home button at all.

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I think this is real. We've had a similar rumour a while back. I think it's plausible. As long as we get some kind of feedback, it sounds good to me.
 
Kajje said:
I've been clicking / hard clicking on my MBr's Force Touch touchpad at least for every hour since I've bought it. Still can't feel the difference compared with a 'real', physical switch touchpad.

So the technology for a Force Touch home button is there. While its benefits might look minimal at first, it might save some valuable space inside or help the quest for having a more water-friendly phone.

After all those firmware upgrades pretending to have better water proofing (sic), a hardware solution might give better mileage.
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This. People won't notice the difference because it still feels like pressing a real button. It's plausible because of waterproofing and the first step for next year when the Home Button is removed completely.
 
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pegamoos said:
somehow the top looks ugly, why won't they simply make one wide black horizontal aperture and hide cam and proximity sensor in it along with the speaker?
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This is what i'm always wondering when i see different white colored phones. So obvious solution, yet all companies act like they're completely retarded when it comes to aesthetics and design of a phone.
 
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Smartass said:
This is what i'm always wondering when i see different white colored phones. So obvious solution, yet all companies act like they're completely retarded when it comes to aesthetics and design of a phone.
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apple too isn't any better at it, that damn proximity sensor, seriously...

Koodauw said:
Anyone remember the touch sensitive buttons on the iPod 3g? Those were horrible. Hope it doesn't happen.
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...and touch technology today is basically the same as that of 2003.
or in what aspects were they horrible? i loved that ipod!
 
Ugh I really hate how iOS 10 slide to unlock is gone. It's a huge hassle for non Touch ID devices. I can't get used to it. You have to press it once, then you have to press it again to enter passcode. Sometimes it doesn't show up.

And getting used to a touch home button will feel weird too. Doesn't feel the same as a physical button.
 
I cannot believe this picture with the top bezel smaller then the bottom one. And on top of this - why is this picture blurry? Who takes such blurry pictures? No one - exactly. Super fake if you ask me.
 
I was of the understanding that the metal ring around the current iPhone button was a requirement for the touch ID magic to work. Can anyone tell if the 'circle' in this photograph is perhaps a flush metal ring or is it just a graphic to show where to touch? If it's not a flush metal ring, then my guess is that this is not a 'real' iPhone. Unless they have found another way around using the metal ring somehow...
 
spacemanspifff said:
I was of the understanding that the metal ring around the current iPhone button was a requirement for the touch ID magic to work. Can anyone tell if the 'circle' in this photograph is perhaps a flush metal ring or is it just a graphic to show where to touch? If it's not a flush metal ring, then my guess is that this is not a 'real' iPhone. Unless they have found another way around using the metal ring somehow...
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It's an Android phone.
 

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lars666 said:
I don't think the "touch sensitive" middle step for the home button is necessary / a real step forward. The home button needs to go for good, freeing the bezel space for more screen size at the same form factor or same screen size at a smaller one. Hopefully this will be possible soon. (Integrating Touch ID into the display and/or use 3D Touch for navigating back to the home screen.)
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Agreed. Since there's rumor that the iphone 2017 will get rid of the home button whatsoever, why even bother about it at this point? also, it doesnt look like there are any benetifts to it
 
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Tycho24 said:
Umm.... those phones don't look remotely similar to me- do they to you???
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Maybe not exact, but they're pretty similar no? Lol really "don't look remotely similar" ???

I'd say there's a much better chance that this is some knock off, fake, or an android phone of some sort than it being a new iPhone.

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profets said:
Maybe not exact, but they're pretty similar no? Lol really "don't look remotely similar" ???

I'd say there's a much better chance that this is some knock off, fake, or an android phone of some sort than it being a new iPhone.

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Yeah, I looked again (harder)... there appears to be no lighting port on the "alleged" one; also- I should've said: "they don't look identical"... obviously they do look similar.

Edit: though; to be clear- all the knock offs have had a metal ring & a concave button (like the one you linked), this is definitely the 1st we're seeing a flush one- fake or not.
 
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Prob a fake. However, if true, not a fan. It's not that I'm against change but, it seems to be solving a problem that's not really there
 
Man, the space above the screen looks so cheap (very Androidy). Combined with the new tacky features of iOS 10, this whole package should finally appeal to Android users and people without taste in general.
 
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