Alleged Leaked iPhone 7 Images Reveal New Case Design

[Fried_Gold]

It's definitely not windows xp, he just has the windows 7 theme as blue, the blue bar of xp looked different:

 

[Technarchy]

Given Apple's poor track record for secrecy with leaked parts etc, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the legit plans for the new iPhone 7.

The timing is right for reliable design leaks. I'm going to wager it's legit.

It's also uninspired in my opinion. It's not bad or ugly, and the lines are clean but it doesn't come close to the iPhone 4/4S which really was a startling and forward design when it first dropped.

 

[Gudi]

I never mentioned Samsung in my post, also I have the 6S and I'm somewhat satisfied with it. I said you can argue about some of the features or specs whatever you want to call them. But things like battery size and 1gb ram on the iPhone 6 are things that prove that Apple holds back specs.

Because only rubbish Android phones and Windows PCs compete about specs. I've seen quad-core Intel chips with lots of RAM that stutter at scrolling a simple webpage. You don't want specs, you want features. Smooth scrolling is a feature and you better don't care with how much memory and how many cores it is achieved. Only if it is achieved or not. When you shop for specs, you end up with a somewhat satisfying device that has all the advertised specs but not one completely satisfying feature. Instead you should ignore specs completely and test the features themselves on their level of satisfaction. Why do you think Apple brags about their consumer satisfaction ratings and not even mentions the amount of memory in the small print? Maybe they know something about how to make a profit and customers happy at the same time.

 

[pradeepbabloo]

yawn!!!

 

[MacRazySwe]

Maybe I'll stick with my iPhone 6 for another year or two.

 

[nando87]

Because only rubbish Android phones and Windows PCs compete about specs. I've seen quad-core Intel chips with lots of RAM that stutter at scrolling a simple webpage. You don't want specs, you want features. Smooth scrolling is a feature and you better don't care with how much memory and how many cores it is achieved. Only if it is achieved or not. When you shop for specs, you end up with a somewhat satisfying device that has all the advertised specs but not one completely satisfying feature. Instead you should ignore specs completely and test the features themselves on their level of satisfaction. Why do you think Apple brags about their consumer satisfaction ratings and not even mentions the amount of memory in the small print? Maybe they know something about how to make a profit and customers happy at the same time.

1- Oh really? I prefer a Mac Pro to a Mac Mini any day, but hey, you can choose the Mac Mini, and everybody happy.

2- In part because iOs is quite well optimized and in part because they know the huge majority of their user base have no clue about hardware or specs. If the tabs reload every time they change, they just will think it's normal. That's just ignorance. Industrial design is intuitive and obvious, lack of performance can be hidden and obviated by those who are noobs. A man who knows nothing about engines, cars or mechanics, and has no experience, can think a BMW 320i with M pack is the same than an M3, and even can think nobody needs or could want something faster or better. Not even close. But it is still probably good looking.

 

[PsykX]

I hope it's not the final design. I want people to know I have the latest one (not that I want to encourage theft).

And I'm the one who wants a new design so that people know I don't have the latest model
Nothing to steal here, move on...

Theft in buses and subways are unforgivable...

 

[Mac 128]

I've been pretty vocal about them not removing the headphone jack, but this morning I was thinking about it and I would accept the removal if it was for something really game-changing. There's nothing wrong with the jack itself. It's perfectly good technology and there's no good reason to remove it for the sake of removing it. But if they had something really amazing, like wireless charging where you could just be within a few feet of the charger, that might make it worth the tradeoff. I don't know that you would need to remove the headphone jack for that, but maybe there's just not enough room otherwise.

Here's an interesting patent:

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...unctionality-wireless-inductive-charging.html

This might explain why they might need to remove the 3.5mm jack to get wireless charging, and give us a second speaker. On the face of it, the patent demonstrates a haptic engine and a speaker coil, but could just as easily be two speakers, and who knows, perhaps the technology requires matched coils. Of course, if that's the case then you wouldn't be able to charge and listen over the speakers at the same time. But maybe it doesn't require matched coils and that's why there's two speakers: one for charging, one for listening. Doesn't seem a very elegant solution, especially since the competition has inductive charging, speaker, and a headphone jack without that limitation. But for true wireless charging? Yup I'd go there. But heck I would even go for removing the 3.5mm jack to give us extra battery.

All I can say is that regardless of these images if the next iPhone has no headphone jack I will not be buying it. Period. Simple as that. I use that jack every day. Every. Day. Having a 'lightning to headphone' adapter hanging off of my phone while it is in my pocket is not acceptable. In fact it would be about the stupidest thing I can imagine. I don't want or need new headphones with a non-standard connector, and bluetooth headphones do not interest me.

Apple is presumably doing this for a legitimate reason. What will you do if the competition also has the same legitimate reason and drops their headphone jack a year after Apple does?

 

[Gudi]

Oh really? I prefer a Mac Pro to a Mac Mini any day, but hey, you can choose the Mac Mini, and everybody happy.

Yes, really. Just install Windows Vista on your Mac Pro and you will see that it's not the specs you love. It's the whole package that makes the experience, not a couple of hardware numbers. Even the new Mac Pro isn't mindlessly maximizing performance. The design is also aimed at silent operation and minimizing size. Apple's pro desktop is clearly the thinnest in its performance class and the innards haven't been upgraded for the last 816 days. So no, it's not different from any other Apple product.

Counter check: If you would want specs, you would get them for way cheaper in a self-build PC. Buying a Mac Pro is much like buying a BMW. It sells a driving experience (Fahrvergnügen) not a number of wheels and cylinders.

 

[polee]

No headphone jack, thinner ... Not really the new features I am looking for. Unless battery life is like 30 or 40 percent more, I will just stick to my 6 plus till something better comes along. Is the iPhone going to suffer the same fate as the iPad? Declining sales every quarter?

 

[dampfnudel]

IF that was an actual photo of an iPhone 7 it would be a pretty mundane update to the current design.
That same old same old would make it look like Jony just phoned it in.

Maybe Jony is cooking up something special for 2017. Delays happen.
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Not enough if a design change. Will be interesting to see what the camera on the standard model is like though.

A slightly tweaked version of the camera on my 6s I would guess.
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Personally... I think the overall design is fine — my 6 is a nice design. What I care more about is what's inside and iOS.

Separately, I've been seeing rumors about Apple might be looking to use totally wireless and contact-less charging (from Energous)... plus with a wicked fast chip, more memory, better camera, maybe they'll even surprise us with something new? But, for me it's more about what's inside not the outside... let's face it, it's a rectangular device... not a lot they can do but start adding bling or some sort of weird covering that most of us put into a case anyway.

Wireless charging is a rumored feature for the 7s or 8.

 

[Pman17]

I hope it's not the final design. I want people to know I have the latest one (not that I want to encourage theft).

Unless the screen completely fills the front of the iPhone or goes from edge to edge.

 

[furi0usbee]

Still with clearly visible antenna bands. Guys, color key them so they blend in with the case please. They are not pretty enough to feature them as part of the design....

 

[TouchMint.com]

not enough to get me excited for an upgrade sorry. I was really hoping they would do something new with the design....

 

[Trius]

Isn't it much more likely that this is the (5e, 6c, whatever it's called) 4" iPhone they're announcing next week?

 

[eugnandez]

Looks pretty much like a 6 from the back.

 

[ginuz]

no phones jack... no iPhone. I think I will change my old (and exhausted) 5 with a 6s (even if I tried it and found the design really uncomfortable).

 

[bananas]

The leaked case and the mock-up look good to me.
If iPhone 7 will look like this, I'm going to buy one. Doesn't matter to me if there isn't 3,5mm audio jack. I'm ok with a set of wired Lightning earphones and I will figure out a way to play music in my car.

 

[sulpfiction]

i think it looks nice. now please get rid of the absolutely huge bezels and circular home button on the front glass and the iphone will design will be just what i always wanted it to be.

the one thing bothering me is the lack of headphone jack. if the iphone 7 doesn't have it then it simply isn't an option for me. my headphones cost £130 and i'm not going out and buying a new bluetooth pair just so i can listen on iphone. forget it.

I'm sure there will be a 3.5 to lightning adapter...Maybe even in the box.

 

[antonis]

Unfortunately that's how it is looking based on my perspective too. I'll be switching to the next nexus if the phone doesn't have enough appeal for me. The 6S was an indicator of this already, and if the 7 is as expected, I probably won't want to upgrade.

While I love iOS still, it seems to be getting sloppier as the last few iterations have come out, and as a power user, I have just always had a soft spot for the snappy transitions and animations that android allows. I jailbreak so it's not a big deal on iOS (I can speed up animations), but the limitation is real, and jailbreaks can get annoying when you have to restore and you lose everything.

Yeah, I'm almost at the same boat. If things will be as they look now (ofc, I understand that's a big "if"), I'm going to remain with iPhone 6 plus, from 2014. I've invested much to iOS ecosystem, so I wouldn't choose switching, not just yet. However, if apple keep creating those - unnecessarily, because of the top and bottom bezels - huge phones that is always a pain to carry and use, I'll eventually have to switch.

 

[smacrumon]

"This is the all new iPhone 6se. Uninspired from a legacy of recent uninspired designs. Roll the video!"
Get rid of the antenna lines!!! The reason the iPhone 4s antenna wrap around worked so well was that it integrated a technical requirement of the device into a resolved design aesthetic (with the exception of tiny cut outs in the band--why couldn't those cuts have been colored closer to the silver band?). The iPhone 6/6s/7 antenna lines and pop up camera are totally unresolved. How can Apple, with its huge financial resources, go backwards in design instead of progress? This makes no sense.

 

[ghost187]

Because only rubbish Android phones and Windows PCs compete about specs. I've seen quad-core Intel chips with lots of RAM that stutter at scrolling a simple webpage. You don't want specs, you want features. Smooth scrolling is a feature and you better don't care with how much memory and how many cores it is achieved. Only if it is achieved or not. When you shop for specs, you end up with a somewhat satisfying device that has all the advertised specs but not one completely satisfying feature. Instead you should ignore specs completely and test the features themselves on their level of satisfaction. Why do you think Apple brags about their consumer satisfaction ratings and not even mentions the amount of memory in the small print? Maybe they know something about how to make a profit and customers happy at the same time.

They put something a little extra in your cool-aid there buddy

 

[Gudi]

They put something a little extra in your cool-aid there buddy

That's as good an explanation as that we are all iSheep in an iChurch trapped in a reality distortion field coming from an Apple spaceship hidden on the dark side of the moon.

In pop culture "Drinking the Kool-Aid" refers to the 1978 Jonestown Massacre; the phrase suggests that one has mindlessly adopted the dogma of a group or leader without fully understanding the ramifications or implications. At Jonestown, Jim Jones' followers followed him to the end: after visiting Congressman Leo Ryan was shot at the airstrip, all the Peoples Temple members drank from a metal vat containing a mixture of "Kool Aid", cyanide, and prescription drugs Valium, Phenergan, and chloral hydrate.

Funny these Americans!

 

[winston1236]

lol at that photo.

 

[69650]

Switch from metal case to something more comfortable to hold and lighter.

Plus new colours - bored with black or white fronts. Preferably one uniform colour front and back.
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Hard to evolve on the 6 design. Rounded and thin has been the best design so far. Going back to flat sides is a devolution.

That shows a complete lack of imagination which is the main problem. They need a bunch of fresh new designers with new ideas instead of the same old faces churning out the same old designs year after year.

Apples' design team reminds me of a fresh young person that is all grown up and conservative now he's middle aged with a respectable suit and tie. They've lost that crazy streak that was able to think outside the box and come up with totally original and revolutionary designs like the original coloured iMac. I hope they address this problem before the design team move on to comfortable slippers and elasticated trousers.