It's stronger than steel by weight, but overall steel takes the cake: http://www.wenzelmetalspinning.com/steel-vs-aluminum.html
Strength of a metal is measured proportional to a size, not weight.
It's stronger than steel by weight, but overall steel takes the cake: http://www.wenzelmetalspinning.com/steel-vs-aluminum.html
Apple is said to be planning to position the OLED iPhone 8 as a "Premium" model that will perhaps be sold alongside standard flat display 4.7, 5, and 5.5-inch iPhone models, but details relating to size, configurations, and materials used remain sketchy.
I suppose they've solved the radio through metal problem then?
Ok. Yes. You're right. I had a typo. Appreciate you pointing that out."Alumininium" isn't even a word... "Aluminum" is the American spelling and pronunciation, and "aluminium" is the British spelling and pronunciation.
Anyways, I would be very happy with a steel iPhone. There seems to be a craze in the market with lighter phones, but I'd rather have a dense phone that feels more substantial. At these sizes, higher weight may also make the phone easier to hold.
I can remember the internet arriving and 1200 baud modems.
I remember the introduction of VHS, CDs and DVDs
I can't remember the introduction of colour tvs, but can remember watching a black and white portable tv and main colour tv.
I can remember getting a microwave.
I remember the introduction of the mobile phone.
The arrival of satellite tv.
I remember computers with 1k ram.
And digital watches.
I remember life before the IBM PC
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If they are in fact planning to slot this in above the Plus model (I would assume a 'Pro' suffix if they keep with tradition) I could see them going with a polished SS case and sapphire/ceramic front/back "glass" - akin to the higher end Apple Watch. And yes, probably $1500+.Only $750 for the year if you upgrade with Apple's program. Well worth it... should it be as gorgeous as pictured. Hoping it will be a piece of engineering worthy of drool. For now, they remain as appliance-worthy as a Honda.
I want that, "New Porsche," feeling again.
The lower end phones will probably remain aluminum for quite some time.So what do all the milling machines go and do - a new aluminium device, or another product/material?
Well we know its gonna be thin... so both!Bendgate or crackgate?
Rumors cannot debunk other rumors. Only facts can debunk rumors. Rumors can conflict with other rumors, in which case you have to use your powers of deduction and common sense to figure out which, if any, nuggets of the competition stories are likely.
But MR has previously reported that the current 4.7 and 5.5" models would remain similar for iPhone 8 plus the addition of a brand new 5.5" OLED model. MR has also reported of a 5" model too. Apple makes lots of prototypes. Until manufacturing ramps up its impossible to be even. 80% sure which of those will make it to production.
The idea of a steel body doesn't still well with me. Even car makers use aluminum to save weight. A heavy iPhone I do not want. The iPhone 4 is a heavy phone. Let's hope Apple doesn't go backwards here.
For our UK brethren, we're willing to do that, but no, we don't do that normally, however, in some areas, it is pronounced that way.You spell 'premium' differently? TIL
I'll never understand why American's pronounce it as AH-LOO-MA-NIM
Aluminium is AL-YOU-MIN-EE-UM.
Same pronunciation as Gallium, Magnesium, Uranium etc.
You appear to be unfamiliar with Apple.Should be cheaper, not more expensive.
Here is some interesting reading/video...You are trying to tell me that British english (which is btw. the correct english) changed it from right to wrong?
AFAIK - it was americans who kept bastardise the english language. (I'm not english btw) )
So if I go to school I would never wanna learn US english and I would always want to learn British english as that is THE correct english. We don't need to argue about that, right? Historical fact I hope everyone is aware of
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you're holding it wrongYou mean aluminium. Which is the correct way to say it.
I loved the Universal! I used that for remoting into Windows Server devices.Yep, Windows CE (not Windows Mobile) devices used by enterprises (and some consumer PDAs) even had full Internet Explorer on them (not that POS Pocket IE).
In 2000, I was remotely surfing the web on my HP Jornada CE device which had a landscape 640x240 screen, via a cellular CF card. It was great, and because that was the width most websites were made for back then, there was almost no need for horizontal scrolling.
It was the internet in your pocket, seven years before the iPhone. (I mostly used it to put in last second bids on eBay while out and around. This was before AuctionSniper.)
By the time the 3.5" 480x320 iPhone came out in 2007, there had already been over two dozen 3.5+" screen smartphones available since 1999, mostly using Windows Pocket PC Phone. Even WVGA "retina" resolution screens, albeit 3", were available at the time the iPhone went on sale.
Here's some large touch screen voice/data capable devices from the past:
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Interestingly, that CDMA Samsung touchscreen device... with full IE five years before the iPhone came out... was almost the same height and width as their Galaxy Note series that came out years later. It was only sold in Korea, I think.
Good news for me! Thanks to my messed-up body chemistry, I always have issues with aluminium products. Both my Macbook Pros and iPhones get "corroded" (like tiny black spots) after a few months of usage.
Hopefully, that won't be the case with stainless steel!
I can remember the internet arriving and 1200 baud modems.
I remember the introduction of VHS, CDs and DVDs
I can't remember the introduction of colour tvs, but can remember watching a black and white portable tv and main colour tv.
I can remember getting a microwave.
I remember the introduction of the mobile phone.
The arrival of satellite tv.
I remember computers with 1k ram.
And digital watches.
I remember life before the IBM PC
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AgreedThe iPhone 4 and 4s models owed most of their weight to the dual glass covers, not the steel frame.
If they are in fact planning to slot this in above the Plus model (I would assume a 'Pro' suffix if they keep with tradition) I could see them going with a polished SS case and sapphire/ceramic front/back "glass" - akin to the higher end Apple Watch. And yes, probably $1500+.
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The lower end phones will probably remain aluminum for quite some time.
You are trying to tell me that British english (which is btw. the correct english) changed it from right to wrong?
AFAIK - it was americans who kept bastardise the english language. (I'm not english btw) )
So if I go to school I would never wanna learn US english and I would always want to learn British english as that is THE correct english. We don't need to argue about that, right? Historical fact I hope everyone is aware of
so, Aluminium![]()