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Apple to Forge 'iPhone 8' Chassis Frame From Stainless Steel Instead of Aluminum

Ramius said:
The more Apple reserves its real innovation for "premium" models. Like the edge to edge OLED screen here. Or the touchbar in the new Macbook pros, the more they will distance themselves from normal consumers. Which they once had an iron grip on.
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Respectfully, I disagree... They've always been a brand that was geared towards a more elite clientele. I remember the $5000 Macs* in the 80's vs. the $2000 PCs, and currently, the $500 phone vs. the $300 Androids. If anything, they're getting back to their roots. My wife thought I was nuts when I got a $2000 iMac in 2008, yet it's still running today, and she wanted one in 2009 because she was sick of re imaging her PC. So, year over year, the iMac is a better deal, but that up front cost is what makes people walk away. OK, at least my wife and I walked away for many years.

*I'm intentionally leaving out that $10,000 one... that was a bit of a flop. When a computer is equivalent to a down payment on a house, there's something wrong there.
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acorntoy said:
Gonna make myself look stupid and young here- where is this from? I recognize it but only because of a family guy scene :p
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Maxell cassette tapes.
 
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It would look nice, especially if they produce it with a 4" phone size. But, please, NO CHAMFERED EDGES if true. Those edges looked nice but made the phone bite into your hand without a case. It was a pure aesthetic choice that ignored human factors. On the other hand it did signal the change to form over function. the rounded edges and aluminum we have now are just so prone to slipping out of your hands. Yet another reason I want to go back to a 4" but I refuse to pay full price for a nearly 1 year old SE.
 
Relentless Power said:
So this article potentially debunks the previous rumors of the iPhone carrying over the same design and materials used from the 6s/7. If this is accurate, this iPhone would overhaul the design with glass and stainless with the an edge to edge design, perhaps with OLED.

I believe this article is indicative of what we will see in September.
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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.
 
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JeffyTheQuik said:
Respectfully, I disagree... They've always been a brand that was geared towards a more elite clientele. I remember the $5000 Macs* in the 80's vs. the $2000 PCs, and currently, the $500 phone vs. the $300 Androids. If anything, they're getting back to their roots. My wife thought I was nuts when I got a $2000 iMac in 2008, yet it's still running today, and she wanted one in 2009 because she was sick of re imaging her PC. So, year over year, the iMac is a better deal, but that up front cost is what makes people walk away. OK, at least my wife and I walked away for many years.

*I'm intentionally leaving out that $10,000 one... that was a bit of a flop. When a computer is equivalent to a down payment on a house, there's something wrong there.
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Maxell cassette tapes.
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Ah thanks, that would be why. + Same with my family, finally switched to mac in 2009 with iMacs after getting sick of buying a new pc every year, and they lasted far longer than any PC would have, the 27' 09 is still used as my dad's main computer. My brothers 09 MBP lasted until this year. I'd rather pay more at first and then less in the long run.
 
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dilbert99 said:
I remember my first modem was a 1200 baud (might have been duplex to 2400) so that would have been 150 bytes per second each way for downloading text on a screen prior to the internet
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300 baud here. You could literally watch your email arriving, character-by-character, on the screen!

Faxing was faster.
 
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dilbert99 said:
If they use just a small amount it would add structural rigidity without adding weight so the glass doesn't break as the SS would flex less. SS doesn't have to be visible either if they intend on making it look like a single sheet of glass.
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Arran said:
300 baud here. You could literally watch your email arriving, character-by-character, on the screen!

Faxing was faster.
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Yeah, having to dial the number manually, then listen for the carrier tone, hitting a red button on the modem, and then it took over. 300 baud was AWESOME, especially calling that list of BBS's at 1am and hearing, "Hello?"

Thank goodness that was before Caller ID.
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Arran said:
Don't you mean Premiumium? ;)
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Well played! :D
 
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kildraik said:
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.
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Keep dreaming. Keep yourself disinformated as you believe this BS rumors.
No iPhone 8, that only lives in the heads of Apple-sites, you know, clickbait.
Prepare for the iPhone 7S with no radical redesign.
You all live in a dream where Apple is still amazing the world with their products.
Apple lost it.
Apple user since early '90's.
 
Wiesenlooser said:
I dont see any upsides in using SS. Anybody?
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Adolf was very fond of the SS, but then what did he know about iPhones?

Seriously, SS would enable very thin flexible bands, if they'd only use it for the sides. I still expect the back to be glass, since it's Ive's wet dream to make an iPhone that looks like it's just a sheet of glass.

Premium is a bad idea, because already now people are kvetching about the better camera in the 6S plus.

Might as well put three lenses into that one.
 
dilbert99 said:
I remember my first modem was a 1200 baud (might have been duplex to 2400) so that would have been 150 bytes per second each way for downloading text on a screen prior to the internet
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My first was an acoustic 300 baud modem where you put the receiver into the slots. When I saw the movie Sneakers in 1992 I laughed when I saw them using one pretending it was some sophisticated network device. Nothing like navigating a Timbuktu mac site using 300 bits per second... Thankfully nothing is like that anymore.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
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.
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Not for the last 14 months over here in the US. We have it the other way around.
 
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it will make me sad if they give the Plus version features the non plus gets I don't want a phone that big I do want the new features tho... :-/ id even pay more to have them in the non plus version I don't want a huge phone... Apple are you listening?
 
As always, that mock up looks amazing. Practical? Probably not but maybe adopting bezel-less design with smaller top and bottom would be welcome.

and I always throw this in there for the nay-sayers... LED NOTIFICATIONS!!!!!
 
Apple seems at its craziest panic when selecting materials.
Please settle on something after 8.000 patents and 10 years of undecisiveness around Glass, Alu, Ceramics, Titanium, Plastics, Self-repairing Nanostructures, Sapphire, Molybdemium, Steel...
Choose something that just works - whether it is sintered play-dough or dog-poo...
 
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Hmmm. I wonder if the "REDUCED COSTS" make their way down the chain to the consumer. I'm guessing........ NO.
 
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It will be interesting to see if forging will give Apple precise enough dimensions to satisfy them.
 
Bacillus said:
Apple seems at its craziest panic when using materials.
Please settle on something after 8.000 patents and 10 years of undecisiveness around Glass, Alu, Ceramics, Titanium, Plastics, Self-repairing Nanostructures, Molybdemium, Steel, Sapphire...
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They do settle on something, they have used aluminum for 5 years - time to try something new :p
 
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