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These leaks are from people that not only did;t invent the IP, but shouldn't have their hands on making it.
 
"Nevertheless, many iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus users use their smartphones in the shower, for example, without issue."

Say what? Who uses a phone, ANY phone, in the shower? (OK, the president might reach for his phone during a shower to tweet something).

I mean, I wear my Apple Watch Series 2 in the swimming pool, but Apple designed the thing to be used that way. Water resistance for phones is useful, say, if you're using your phone outside and get caught in a rainstorm, but in the shower?
 
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My Jet Black iPhone 7+ was $969 + tax and my space black watch was $1100 + tax. You must not be familiar with Apple's pricing.

The rumored specs on the iPhone 8 is that it will have half the memory and a .4" smaller usable screen (5.1" with a .7" toolbar on the bottom) than the phone you are comparing it to. You're supposed to get more features for the money as time goes on, not less.

Apple is free to price it as it sees fit, but hardware wise the iPhone 8 isn't any great leap over the Galaxy S8 other than the under-glass fingerprint reader that supposedly adds about $20 to the material cost.
 
yes, my rolex is waterproof

Tons of confusion about the ratings. Certainly not going to be "waterproof" under the rating system.

Time to clarify a lot of misunderstanding about the ratings. IP 67 versus IP 68 difference is debatable and situation dependent. The first number, the 6, is the dust rating and is the highest rating possible in this system. The second number is water resistance and the 7 means the phone or other product is certified up to minimum depth of 1 meter for 30 minutes

The confusion comes in regarding the 8 rating. The 8 rating is given when the manufacturer, not an independent testing org, certifies the phone to be water resistant for 30 minutes at ANY depth beyond 1 meter. For example, Samsung's Galaxy 7 was IP 68, (don't know about the 8) but only certified up to 1.5 meter depth. It's up to you to decide if Samsungs certification of half a meter more than Apple iPhone 7 is meaningful or just a marketing gimmick. Apple could pick 1.1 meter and get the new rating, but I am sure they will equal or exceed Samsung's claimed depth.

Since the iPhone 7 clearly was able to resist water intrusion beyond 1 meter, my speculation is that Apple didn't claim the IP68 rating because they knew submerging in water up to 1meter for 30 minutes would cover 99.9% of reasonable use cases and they didn't want people to do foolish things with the phone like deep water use, but since consumers were being "misled" into thinking that Samsung's IP 68 was meaningful difference, they opted to go with IP 68 with new phone.
 
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Spoken like a class action lawyer... Anyone who goes to a rumor site and takes anything they see as gospel is not the kind of person who understands the distinction between the nuanced details of IP68 and "waterproof".

Says the person who posted:
Hahaha. As author of an article, they're expected to write factual statements. He didn't. He fixed it and corrected his error. It's done. You can lie down now and chill. It's okay.
 
"waterproof."

It most assuredly has a water resistance rating.

Sure it does, I can't speak for his watch specifically. However they have some amazing waterproofing if you're willing to pay

"To guarantee the water resistance of the Rolex Deepsea divers' watch to the extreme depth of 3,900 metres (12,800 feet), Rolex tests every single one made in a specially designed high-performance tank. This stainless steel hyperbaric tank is cast in a single piece and weighs 1.3 tonnes. It simulates the pressure at 4,875 metres (16,000 feet) below sea level, some 25 percent greater than the depth indicated on the dial. At this depth, the force exerted upon the watch is equivalent to a weight of 4.5 tonnes. This test could be destructive, meaning that the slightest weakness in a watch would cause it to implode. Obviously, all Rolex Deepsea watches offered for sale have survived it"


https://www.rolex.com/watches/rolex-watchmaking/tested-to-extremes.html
 
Wireless charger sold separately.

I kid! Hopefully.

No, Samsung raised the price of their S8's and didn't include a wireless charger with them, so don't think Apple would here. Although the expectation is that it will Qi compatible so alot of older wireless chargers should work (believe that was what my old Nokia used).
 
And yet, Apple will deny any warranty work if it shows any kind of water damager. Also, isn't the iPhone 7 water proof, to an extent (IP67 I think) I mean, all the commercials Apple put out, riding your bike in the rain with the iPhone 7 mounted to the handle bars, or my favorite, the old man at the pool playing some HEAVY BASE music (iPhone never get that loud or would ever cause a table to make water shake because of the music coming out of it's speakers) when he jumps from a diving platform into the water and then they pan to the iPhone and it is splashed with water. Unless they were going to warranty against water damage that should not have happened, this is only a gimmick feature (except for the piece of mind you do by chance get it wet and nothing happens to it).
 
iphone7waterresistance.jpg


It's nice to think that somebody at Apple was paid to splash water on iPhones in an aesthetically pleasing manner and photograph the results. They probably spent hours on this.


My money is on 3d rendering.
 
Hmm...I'm skeptical that an Apple supplier would confirm something like that.
 
Haha, it must really piss off Apple when their suppliers blatantly leak all these huge rumors about the next iPhone every year. What makes it even funnier is how the suppliers act like it isn't even really a big deal.
 
Splash? Some product photographer spent a 10 hour day with an eye dropper to make that...

these definitely look like renders. either way, it could have taken them hours to do this ;)

FYI, they rarely film real water as it's hard to capture it in the first place. It looks too transparent/non-existent. In movies they would use oil instead in most cases. In the pic above the water looks pretty much CGI to me:)

Or about three lunch breaks in a work week just to make these sexy renders.

Let me have my fun, dammit! :eek::mad:
 
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And yet, Apple will deny any warranty work if it shows any kind of water damager.
This is a much more relevant point than the argument between "proof" and "resistant".

For those worried that a gullible reader will take "waterproof" at face value, I'd be much more concerned about the people who use the device as spec'd and are denied repairs.

I understand why Apple does this-- they don't want someone hitting their phone with a pressure washer to avoid the cost of a new battery, but it should be made clear that the rating is a build spec, not a guarantee...
 
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I'm hoping this is true, but we'll see. Eager to upgrade from this SE. It's been a great little phone, but I think wanting a smaller phone was more nostalgia than anything. The novelty has worn off.

It blows my mind that people bring their iPhone into the shower with them. Some people really need to take a break from their phone.


Lol
 
Can anything truly be 100% waterproof? I'm only expecting an IP68 rating.

A sealed slab of glass with internals inside would be. Speaker and microphone would probably sound bad though with enough power to the speaker and digital processing after the mic it could be done.
 
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