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Apple is Testing These iPhone 18 Pro and Foldable iPhone Colors
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If M$ knew how to market, Zune hardware and software might still be around today. Even after 15 years I remember how the Zune software was literally the best of the times!
Browsing in Safari, editing photos in Lightroom, anything with the keyboard visible in landscape, etc.
To be frank, I don’t believe snyone who says they don’t understand the benefits of a larger screen.
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transpo1
macrumors 68000
It has a bigger screen for reading books, watching movies, making notes, and multitasking. Don’t make it so easy. 😁
transpo1
macrumors 68000
It’s way past time for a red iPhone Pro. Glad the other colors won’t happen. If this is a deep metallic red, this thing will be sick.
contacos
macrumors 604
The Oppo Find N5 is pretty durable. It even survived a sand storm in Oman and the Galaxy Fold 7 withstood (is that a word?) the pressure bending test of this one YouTuber unharmed.
Serrafemme
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lazyrighteye
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If the color ends up a deep red/burgundy (as pictured), that will likely prove super popular.
Reminds me of Maximillian from Disney’s The Black Hole. Classic!
Reminds me of Maximillian from Disney’s The Black Hole. Classic!
CarlJ
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I mean, the use case is fairly obvious - a phone that when folded comes close to disappearing in your pocket, instead of becoming a slight "will this work" consideration every time you sit down, with enough outer display to handle perhaps 50% of common uses (e.g. what time is it, is that notification I just got important, see that last new message, turn off a timer/alarm), that can then be opened the other 50%ish of the time to be something closer to a Pro Max in size, having lots of screen real estate for viewing complex web pages (filling out a form maybe), watching a video clip, viewing a map, etc.
I'd love to have such a thing, eventually, but not 1st or 2nd or 3rd gen, even from Apple. Needs time to get the folding screen mechanism really foolproof/unbreakable, even after tens of thousands of cycles, and the price will need to come way down.
Back in the days before the iPhone, my last "flip phone" was a LG VX-9900, that was roughly "candy bar" style, but opened up like a book, revealing a larger screen and a QWERTY keyboard (in the days when everyone was using T9 to write on their phone's numeric keypads), and it had its flaws, but the keyboard and "mini laptop" form factor were great, and it was pretty bulletproof (and it took up only a fraction of a pocket when closed). That phone would be hopelessly outdated now, of course, but the general concept (small, easy to carry, can be used for casual/glance stuff when folded, but expands out into a larger more capable form when needed) has a lot of merit.
IIGS User
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jjudson
macrumors 6502a
It’s just anodizing aluminum. There is no reason this very tried and true tech needs to be worked out a year in advance. I imagine something like colors is the very last step in the process and they probably prototype a whole bunch of options before settling on the final picks.
I7guy
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contacos
macrumors 604
I mean the iPhone screen can also shatter with one drop depending on luck.
Also that's what insurance is for
As long as they bring the black back I couldn't care less if they want to make a pokadot pink and yellow iphone....
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
Insurance isn’t not the point. It seems to me a foldable gains screen real estate at the expense of structural integrity. I wonder what the Apple care+ is going to be?
I doubt itll be burgundy red.
ok, maybe burgundy red is replacing deep blue iphone
bc what made cosmic orange a status symbol hit was that it was a eye catching color. burgundy red cant do that.
ok, maybe burgundy red is replacing deep blue iphone
bc what made cosmic orange a status symbol hit was that it was a eye catching color. burgundy red cant do that.
Vincent Hanna
macrumors 6502
Apple never keeps the signature colors into the next year cycle, so I don’t expect the orange to be available on the 18 on the US. But I bet they keep it in China due to its enormous popularity there.
techfreak23
macrumors 6502a
Just bring back the deep purple already and I will be sold. I'll get it day one. I'm holding onto my 14 Pro until then.
Oh please, you don't like it just get the color that you like, stop whining about a color that is too good for you.
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Look I'm not trying to be a Smartass here, but is got to be something better than that, some people will say get an iPad then. I had a pixel fold, different os, so not really a fair comparison.
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