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Apple to Eliminate Home Button in 2017 iPhone

sw1tcher said:
On the back?

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Or, like the article says, incorporated into the display.
 
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drumcat said:
I feel like we're approaching "even sharper steak knives".

I'd take a phone triple in thickness if it was better shock resistant, waterproof, and doubled physical battery capacity. Otter Box is a company that should not exist, and yet...
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Sounds like you need a different phone then. See ya!
 
Junipr said:
Great. And without the audio jack and an even smaller battery, we'll finally get the thinner, less functional iPhone we never knew we wanted.
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1. Audio companies, and even Intel, are supporting the removal of the headphone jack. Someday you'll all stop crying about it.

2. No one is saying the battery is getting smaller or the phone will be significantly thinner.

3. Less functional because it may not have a physical home button? That simulated home button will most certainly have more functionality that what we have now.

4. This will probably be a special edition besides the regular models. Chill.
 
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So we know what the 2017 iPhone will look like bug dint even have concrete evidence on what the 2016 iPhone will look like.
 
frankgrimes said:
Ah no home button, I remember another OS that didn't have a home button and let me tell you it was a pain in the ass to figure out how to get back to the home-screen. Needed to call someone to help me out in store because I just couldn't figure out and by the looks of it people around me couldn't do so either.

I would never buy a phone without a home, back and recent apps button. Heck, I would pay to have more not less buttons.

The next revolution are hopefully the foldable phones.
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Which OS?
 
drumcat said:
I feel like we're approaching "even sharper steak knives".

I'd take a phone triple in thickness if it was better shock resistant, waterproof, and doubled physical battery capacity. Otter Box is a company that should not exist, and yet...
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Agreed. We're at a point of diminished returns when it comes to the customer excitement over thinness. Unless we're talking credit card thin, it's not interesting.
 
Andres Cantu said:
They'll probably get rid of the mute switch as well, they already did with the iPad...

And, of course, don't forget about the headphone jack.
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Probably the lightning port too. Inductive charging is coming sooner or later.
 
eXoguti093 said:
1. Audio companies, and even Intel, are supporting the removal of the headphone jack. Someday you'll all stop crying about it.

2. No one is saying the battery is getting smaller or the phone will be significantly thinner.

3. Less functional because it may not have a physical home button? That simulated home button will most certainly have more functionality that what we have now.

4. This will probably be a special edition besides the regular models. Chill.
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1. You need remember Intel support removing headphone jack in favour of USB-C not lightning. I absolutely refuse to buy any phone with no standard port. Not gonna happen.

2. Knowing it is Apple, it probably gonna be thinner and lesser battery.

3. Competitor shows us you can still have physical home button and doing more tha just going back to home screen. Apple can easily make home button touch sensitive and enable some gestures. Hint: Meizu's M back, Hauwei's Honor 8.
 
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Prof. said:
I guess I can hold on to my iPhone 6 Plus for one more year. I reckon the 2017 iPhone will be released June 29. ;)
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Lucky if you made that far because touch disease is inevitable. Apple doesn't want you to keep your phone that long, they need to make more money.
 
maxsix said:
Apple is stubborn arrogant and addicted to profit taking. They have amazing control over their buyers. They'll buy old technology in a recycled design year after year... :eek:
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I agree they're pendulum has swung too much toward profit-pleasing, but hasn't the Galaxy looked pretty much the same since 2012? Until some pretty futuristic technologies catch up, there's just no room for major changes to smart phones. Brace for a long era of facelifts and desperate features, just like what the LCD/LED TV industry went through the past decade.
 
iapplelove said:
I'm about to keep my 6 plus 3 years on a rumor. It's also still a very good phone.
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I thought about it. Then realized I just can't do it. A 2 year-old phone is a bit long in the tooth. Plus, 1st generation Apple products are usually too buggy to tolerate. And this phone is sounding like everything is changing. Not Apple's forte.
 
Ok... with all of the "redesign rumors" for the anniversary iPhone... Why even bother with an iPhone 7?

I have an iPhone 6, and unless there's something uber amazing with the 7 (like, a must-have)... why bother upgrading.

Just my opinion...
 
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Takeo said:
Maybe the camera can go behind the display and the display would show pixels in a non-camera app and clear glass in a camera app?
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I'd imagine if the glass were of a lens level opacity you could place the lens behind it. I've used clear UV Filters on all my lenses for 30 years. I just don't see that yet for mobile phones. Plus Gorilla Glass 5 may be flexible and shatter resistant, but it scratches much easier than 4 from what I've been reading. Glass is more an Art than Science. Sure, they know the composition. However, it's a VERY fine line between flexibility/shatter resistance and scratch resistance. It's all about "The Recipe." :apple:
 
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thegoodsir said:
Is this why they eliminated the slide-to-unlock feature in iOS 10? "Conditioning" people to turn on/unlock the phone by simply putting your finger on the touch ID sensor?
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The Touch ID behavior that you describe was introduced in iOS 7, with the iPhone 5S. That way of unlocking the phone is still there in iOS 10. Default behavior has just changed, that's all.

If you want the previous style, then go into Settings->General->Accessibility->Home Button, and toggle the "Rest Finger to Open" option on.

If you are talking about a simple slide to unlock, sans Touch ID, then you'd have to go back to using an iPhone 5 or earlier.
 
Anony-mouse said:
This is my first post on MacRumors (though I've been lurking forever...)

I was really excited when I saw the mockup. Now everything that Apple's been trying to do makes sense.
Remove the headphone jack - Check
Multi-orientation speakers (currently on iPad Pro) - Check
Taptic engine - Check
No physical Home Button - Coming

Imagine an iPhone that you can pick up, not worry about the orientation, and just use it.
No more fumbling around to figure out which is the microphone end and which is the head end.

This is just the beginning....
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That is so dope. I wish Apple would hurry up and release them sooner than expected.

The no home button and redesign with wireless charging with wireless features is my favorite part of the iphone upgrade. I am so sick and tired of all these damn wires fumbling around all over the place. I have iPhones, iPads, MacBook airs, MacBook pros, taking up precious wall space charging all over the place.

I am waiting five four three two one for release date.
 
LovingTeddy said:
1. You need remember Intel support removing headphone jack in favour of USB-C not lightning. I absolutely refuse to buy any phone with no standard port. Not gonna happen.
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All because of the "hassle" of just snapping one of these tiny things on all of your old headphones? Seems like something we'll completely forget is there by February.

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syan48306 said:
I'd disagree with that. Glass was always grippier than the smooth aluminum we have now. The iPhone 4 was gripper than the 5 which is still grippier than the 6 due to the glass IMO.
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Both glass iPhone 4 and 5's were slippery as well but less partly to the glass, but I would argue more because of the hard edges to grip onto.

Not like the ridiculously rounded 6 where unless you have sweaty hands, or a case, it would be near impossible not to drop on a regular basis.

I don't mind glass as a material, it's the curved edges that I dislike.
 
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