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Artist Rendition of Next Gen iPhone with Leaked Black Bezel
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Here's some more for you then. I've been shooping these all morning. All shooped out, really. #2 is my mockup of a hip Apple Phanboy.
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If the headset speaker is on the edge like that, I'm going to pass on this phone. The edge will dig into your ear. It's not even a natural position to have the edge of the phone at the hole in your ear.
This is going to suck ass if true.
This is going to suck ass if true.
Nice
A really nice photoshop effort!!!
As to going all black this is very imporatant as it should be far less reflective. Especially if rubberized. This would make it harder for irrate boyfriends or husbands to keep a bead on you.
As to the speaker location hopefully that is to address over all sound quality especially for people with big heads. On top of that I hope it is a lot louder.
Ultimately though I hope that the real reason for the new speaker placement is to make room for a larger screen. It doesn't have to be a lot to make the iPhone more usefull. Give me 10 in height and 80 in width and you will see a far more useful landscape mode. Or more pixels, the point is it would take much to improve the utility of the iPhone or the on screen keypad specifically. Just adding on pixel between each "key" ought to make for better keyboarding. An extra line of text in horizontal mode would hurt either though that could addressed in some apps by hiding the status line at the top.
One thing that is needed is a mechanical switch for the camera.
Dave
A really nice photoshop effort!!!
As to going all black this is very imporatant as it should be far less reflective. Especially if rubberized. This would make it harder for irrate boyfriends or husbands to keep a bead on you.
As to the speaker location hopefully that is to address over all sound quality especially for people with big heads. On top of that I hope it is a lot louder.
Ultimately though I hope that the real reason for the new speaker placement is to make room for a larger screen. It doesn't have to be a lot to make the iPhone more usefull. Give me 10 in height and 80 in width and you will see a far more useful landscape mode. Or more pixels, the point is it would take much to improve the utility of the iPhone or the on screen keypad specifically. Just adding on pixel between each "key" ought to make for better keyboarding. An extra line of text in horizontal mode would hurt either though that could addressed in some apps by hiding the status line at the top.
One thing that is needed is a mechanical switch for the camera.
Dave
Black bezel
probably a black bezel for vid conferencing, as to not be distracting or reflect light.
probably a black bezel for vid conferencing, as to not be distracting or reflect light.
the idea of a bezel and 'unibody' plastic back is silly.... its not one piece... the 2econd gen ipod touch could be considered unibody since the bezel and rear cover are the same piece.... now we also know if this is real that the new device is not unibody as we are discussing a single part that is not a unibody back cover/bezel part... thank you and have a nice day.
Do a little bit of research first please...Unibody =/= one piece
Unibody = case and frame are machined from the same piece.
The unibody macbooks have a top (keyboard) part and a bottom (base) part, they're not made out of one piece.
front facing camera
When I talk on my iPhone (it is a phone, after all) the glass face gets all smudged. The glass would have to constantly be cleaned if there was a camera behind there.
BTW, how come nobody has mentioned that the two camera resolutions Apple ordered a while back could be differentiating hardware factors for iPhone models, without significantly changing the manufacturing process (read distinct parts involved)? I know Apple isn't just stocking up on 5MP cameras without reason.
When I talk on my iPhone (it is a phone, after all) the glass face gets all smudged. The glass would have to constantly be cleaned if there was a camera behind there.
BTW, how come nobody has mentioned that the two camera resolutions Apple ordered a while back could be differentiating hardware factors for iPhone models, without significantly changing the manufacturing process (read distinct parts involved)? I know Apple isn't just stocking up on 5MP cameras without reason.
the pic is just the new bezel photoshopped onto an iPhone 3G, so yes, it is the angle
Well the camera would have a focal point much further away than the glass immediately in front of the camera. Fingerprints on the lenses of cameras don't affect the picture (assuming you're not a prof. photographer)
Everyone is assuming that indent in the bezel is for the speaker at the top, but I'm pretty sure that's for the SIM card. It only looks it's open towards the front because of the way the light is.
I'm by no means a greasy freak, but after I talk on my phone for a while the face of it gets seriously nasty. Though, I guess you could consider this a big usability issue for the screen too. I don't take pictures with my phone often, but when I do I have to the give the lens a quick wipe if I expect to not get a blurry shot.
Leaked Black Bezel Pics
Looking close at the Leaked Black Bezel Pics. (If real) I think Apple have removed the home buttom!! There only seems to be enought space for the glass to lay on top let alone a push-in button?
Might it have been replaced with a lighting-up electro static button? It would then match the top now the ear speaker is on the top edge. Giving a overall clean surface front.
Looking close at the Leaked Black Bezel Pics. (If real) I think Apple have removed the home buttom!! There only seems to be enought space for the glass to lay on top let alone a push-in button?
Might it have been replaced with a lighting-up electro static button? It would then match the top now the ear speaker is on the top edge. Giving a overall clean surface front.
I've got to side with whoever suggested the iPhone might be shorter. I can't think of a good reason to just move the ear-piece up 1cm (approx) and am thinking that as someone else said, they just moved the top edge down to be in line with the current ear-piece (that way the distance between the two is unchanged)... good call to whoever said that, interesting thought if nothing else.
Ya got me there, as I have the same question. I like iPhones, have owned two so far, and think they are really, really great. But, a black bezel is about as big a deal as Paris Hilton's toenail colors this week.
Where are the fun rumors, like: "The next iPhone will have 128G of storage, be usable as a disk, have USB 3.0, real printing capabilities, and complete voice control. Oh, and it will sport a quad-core G5 CPU. All due next Tuesday."
Now, that's a rumor.
Screen Size
Dude.. I was just wondering the samething.. I was like why would they assume that the screen size would stay the same if the earpiece move up.. Im thinking we should expect a bigger screen as well..
Dude.. I was just wondering the samething.. I was like why would they assume that the screen size would stay the same if the earpiece move up.. Im thinking we should expect a bigger screen as well..
The edge is on your ear already--just a centimeter away from where it would be if this new bezel is real. (And how the edge actually lands varies a lot with how you hold it at the moment.)
The only way to stop your ear from resting on the edge of the current phone would be to hold the phone so high you couldn't hear it
Try it 