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Another 'iPhone 8' Design Schematic Shows Vertical Dual Camera and Touch ID on Back of Aluminum Casing
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People need to come to grips. This is the phone. It's already almost MAY, they need to get something rolling. And this just seems the most plausible considering...it's MAY already!
alternative interpretation..
the camera components are actually horizontal when you hold it the right way
(landscape instead of portrait)
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edit-- oh.. same thing @KrazyBear15 said just above. oops
Well done.
No my and other folks using common sense come up with way better conclusion year after year than any leaker or "analyst"
What is the source of this? Also, how does this exactly discredit the "leak"?
It doesn't. All it confirms is that it matches an actual Apple product. That's actually what makes the most plausible drawing so far.
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Except it isn't. Similar, but not the same. DO YOU NOT SEE THAT HUGE VERTICLE CUTOUT?
So your saying Apple screwed up their own render and forgot where the flash compartment goes?
I like the idea that this is actually for wireless charging and not TouchID. Still have that bad feeling though.
No. Do you not see a big gaping hole where the flash underneath the huge verticle camera goes?
I mean who goes to all that work to create such a complicated drawing so faithfully? Wayyyy to many authentic details for just a hoax. I don't see it.
Besides, it just seems the most plausible this late in the game.
I may be wrong but I do not think that touch id will be where it is indicated on the back. I will leave aside that it makes no sense as many posters here point out and instead talk about the position. On the schematics it appears to be where the battery would be. That is if that circle in the middle is indeed a cut out for touch id and not for something else. On the Samsung galaxy S8 the fingerprint scanner is near the top of the phone and I think it is out of the way of the battery. I could be wrong but I don't think the iPhone 8/x whatever will be thick enough for touch id to be placed on the back in the middle and not impact the battery.
The touch id module on the iPhone 7 and previous is at the bottom where the battery stops, so no conflict.
I also do not see Apple making the new iPhone so fat to accommodate both battery and touch id after years of Jonny Ive 'obsessing' over thin and thinner iPhones.
Though touch id could still be on the back near the top, out of the way of the battery though I can not see that either.
I am no cad designer etc but I just can't see it.
The touch id module on the iPhone 7 and previous is at the bottom where the battery stops, so no conflict.
I also do not see Apple making the new iPhone so fat to accommodate both battery and touch id after years of Jonny Ive 'obsessing' over thin and thinner iPhones.
Though touch id could still be on the back near the top, out of the way of the battery though I can not see that either.
I am no cad designer etc but I just can't see it.
With Steve Jobs alive , this years iPhone would have ditched the SIM and SIM card and TouchID on the back wouldn't have ever been an option on the table.
Nowadays rumors consist of:
1.- What Apple is expected to do (taking into account the way Apple worked with Steve on charge)
2.- Apple has problems to meet demand, low yield rates, things that are expected to be done, won't finally be done
3.- Apple is will do something similar to competitors, but for no reason, price of something that competitors released months ago, will be a lot higher. Normally Apple has been able to introduce new features without increasing the price, but now we assume that the price has to increase to a introduce a feature
4.- The product that Apple releases is great and all stupid reasons for not doing (1) are justified.
Why do we have MacBook Pros with 2 TB3 ports instead of 4?
Why do you wait 4 years without updating MP to realize you want to change the design?
Why don't you use UBS-C for all?
Or start including USB-C to lightning cables with your i-devices?
Why do you make iOS features new device specific if we know they could be enabled by software on older devices?
Battery Time remaining indicator on Macs?
Lightning for charging wireless keyboard and mouse instead of USB-C?
Camera bumps on iPhones?
Glowing Apple logo on MB?
Keeping a phone design for 3 years?
Releasing MBP with nearly year old processors?
Where is Nvidia?
Etc
Etc
Nowadays rumors consist of:
1.- What Apple is expected to do (taking into account the way Apple worked with Steve on charge)
2.- Apple has problems to meet demand, low yield rates, things that are expected to be done, won't finally be done
3.- Apple is will do something similar to competitors, but for no reason, price of something that competitors released months ago, will be a lot higher. Normally Apple has been able to introduce new features without increasing the price, but now we assume that the price has to increase to a introduce a feature
4.- The product that Apple releases is great and all stupid reasons for not doing (1) are justified.
Why do we have MacBook Pros with 2 TB3 ports instead of 4?
Why do you wait 4 years without updating MP to realize you want to change the design?
Why don't you use UBS-C for all?
Or start including USB-C to lightning cables with your i-devices?
Why do you make iOS features new device specific if we know they could be enabled by software on older devices?
Battery Time remaining indicator on Macs?
Lightning for charging wireless keyboard and mouse instead of USB-C?
Camera bumps on iPhones?
Glowing Apple logo on MB?
Keeping a phone design for 3 years?
Releasing MBP with nearly year old processors?
Where is Nvidia?
Etc
Etc
this is it boys. happens every year this time of year.
sad to see no headphne jack.
sad to see no headphne jack.
The positioning does seem odd but I have no aversion to Touch ID on the rear of a device. I welcome it if it gives me a physically more compact device. I say bring it.
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I will say that this tender has the positioning equally awkwardly placed. The galaxy has it next to the camera, this iPhone has it dead in the center. Both strange options, really.
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Not particularly like the galaxy. Nexus devices (and various others) have had their scanners in the rear going back a few years now.
I will say that this tender has the positioning equally awkwardly placed. The galaxy has it next to the camera, this iPhone has it dead in the center. Both strange options, really.
you guys are so wrong that it's a 7S - stop spreading misinformation.
the "s"s are refreshes. This casing is new. There is nothing that looks like the 7 here.
With some logical reasoning, sure. But not just by saying so.
If you spend a bit of time and read Steve's thoughts and saw Steve's history of leaks (he's not an analyst), you could see how he came to such a conclusion.
But, as you've made it quite evident, you ignore some well stated thoughts and just arrive to a baseless conclusion.