Yes, it's a challenge to make an iPod touch sized iPhone but surely possible with present technology. Engineers love challenges, not orders to make some incremental advance on last year's model. Come on Apple, show some spirit!
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Apple is Exploring an 'iPhone Flip'
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Yes, it's a challenge to make an iPod touch sized iPhone but surely possible with present technology. Engineers love challenges, not orders to make some incremental advance on last year's model. Come on Apple, show some spirit!
Physical keyboards are making a come back. Check out Clicks Communicator, there is a lot of hype surrounding this phone.
That’s not how it goes. It is known that Apple has a tendency to wait for tech to mature before implementing it into their products, something to do with quality and up to their standards. Currently all the latest flip and folding screens have a visible crease, Apple is trying to reduce or eliminate it more than what it is now. And as for releasing new tech to move the industry forward, Apple has done that with many of their products, let’s not get selective memory now.
Context was the iPod nano - and specifically I had the 6th gen nano in mind when writing my comments, which is 77% the size (volume) of the AW S11 46mm and 92% of the 42mm.
JTK Awesome
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Sony Ericssons were amazing. Their UI >> anyone else’s especially Motorola. What are you talking about?
madrich
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Literally everyone who still owns an iPhone mini is hoping it lasts long enough for THIS to become a reality.
They all were annoying to navigate, especially when surfing the web. They had great specs and all but all of that was close to useless. It only took of once the iPhone paved the way and after that nobody asked for SE, Nokia, Motorola, Siemens and the others
madrich
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I just extended the life of my iPhone 12 mini with a new Apple Battery. 😀
madrich
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I agree with you that the iPhone was superior to all others preceding it. My Sony W980 flip was publically “incognito” in the palm of my hand, while I witnessed iPhones being identified and stolen, actually ripped from a person’s hand.
Non-Euclidean
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I’m ready for iPhone flip,bring it on
Apple is "exploring" the idea of a foldable iPhone with a "square, clamshell-style" design, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
A so-called "iPhone Flip" — unlikely to be the real name — would compete with devices such as Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 7 and the modern-day Motorola Razr.
The clamshell iPhone would be released at some point after Apple's first foldable iPhone, which is expected to launch in September this year.
The first foldable iPhone is expected to open up like a book, similar to Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7. This design will provide users with a large 7.7-inch inner display for watching videos and gaming, and there will likely be multitasking functionality. A clamshell iPhone, on the other hand, would be more about portability and pocketability.
"Apple is betting that its first foldable iPhone will be successful enough to generate real demand for the category and that customers will want additional shapes and sizes, much as they have with traditional slab-style iPhones," said Gurman. Nevertheless, he said a clamshell iPhone is "far from guaranteed to reach the market."
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SnowCrocodile
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God, please don't.
I had two - a Carckberry and a HTC Touch Pro 2, the second one had a pretty impressive keyboard. Still hated both. Typing with small physical keys was a PITA for me, even the small amount of pressure required made it uncomfortably slow. I used the software keyboard on that Touch Pro practically 100% of time.