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Barclays: iPhone 12 Models Will Have 'Refreshed' Face ID System, Lightning Connector Could Be Dropped in 2021
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Yes definitely need more wireless charging in public before phones go all wireless. Heck I rarely even see WIRED around here except malls and airports.
It's not that nobody will buy it. It just seems like a huge inconvenience. What do you do on a hike when your phone is dying? hold it to a wireless charger? strap that charger with a rubber band to a phone? You would need to cary wireless charger with you at all times. You need a power bank, a cord, and a wireless pad. Or a huge powerbank with wireless charger integrated. What if you are riding a bike with phone mounted in phone holder and it runs out of battery?
I, for one, would be happy to drop Lightning in favor of USB-C connector but no connector makes no sense to me. Jony’s gone so his “form over function” stand should be re-evaluated.
balmer or someone also mentioned the same. They thought every phone should have the call answer and call end buttons Atleast. ‘What would do you do when you are getting a call’ kind of assumptions were made
I see the future where battery technology make huge improvements as such phones will be able hood batteries longer. anyway I am excited to see the new possible directions for the smartphones. Apple is doing alright
I have to question the veracity of removing the lighting cable or any cable for syncing as the only way to backup medical/health data for restore is via an encrypted iTunes backup on your computer. iCloud backups do not keep medical information as Apple does not want to risk giving anyone access to millions of medical records. Additionally, and forgive me if I'm wrong as I didn't have time to read the full article and comments, how will people charge their devices away from home/traveling if it's all wireless charging? I'd rather Apple ditch lighting for USB-C as with their iPad Pro's and lessen the clutter and e-waste of so many cables.
Doesn’t seem to be in its current implementation. Maybe in the future. Nope.
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I don’t understand how any one person could believe this rumor. At so many practical levels, this doesn’t make sense.
FaceID creates a weird horrible notch screen and makes no sense to continue using for the new design. The new FaceID system seems like for older X,XS, 11 devices.
Whether one likes, tolerates or hates the notch is subjective. And we don’t know what Apple will do in the future, likely though not to be eliminated.
would the iPhone be better without s notch? sure but currently it's not a big deal at all being there as Face ID works very well for my needs...would I like Touch ID as well? sure...more options is better afterall.
Battery cases typically only hold 1 to 2 charges and can only charge your phone. They also prevent it from being used with a lot of peripherals like gymbals and drone devices. A wireless charging case would also charge your phone rather slowly. A battery pack can charge your phone and multiple other devices and doesn't weigh your phone down when you use it with peripheral equipment.
There are fewer than 10 million iPad Pros that have USB-C, but there are over a billion iPhones/iPads that have Lightning. Plus a couple billion Lightning cables.
There’s no rumor of that, but you never know. It’s still pretty early, though the design is almost certainly frozen.
They said this when Apple removed the floppy disc
They said this when they removed the CD drive
They said this when they removed the headphone jack.
Point is people created noise for about a year but then just got on with it. And the same thing will happen with this too.
They said this when they removed the CD drive
They said this when they removed the headphone jack.
Point is people created noise for about a year but then just got on with it. And the same thing will happen with this too.
I am definitely looking forward to upgrading this year. 5G, new design, better FaceID, way better cameras, hugely faster CPU/GPU, much more ram and much better battery over my X. Honestly the 12 seems to be the ‘buy’ year, although my Dad did just get the 11 to replace his 6s and he’s delighted with it.
They said this when it was thought you could never put a man on the Moon.
But, funnily enough, I’m still waiting for someone to put a man on the Sun.
1 or 2 charges plus a further two days for a phone like the pro max. So really would tasks and where would people be going where 4 days on a charge wouldn't fit most people's needs?
Where in my post did I say using lightning wasn’t an option?
I just merely stated that the Pro iPhones should fall in line with their iPad counterparts.
So few have USB-C iPad Pros that there’s very little upside to switching. There are upwards of 200 million Lightning iPads—but fewer than 10 million USB-C iPads—in the installed base.
You'd just be transferring the “two cable” requirement from USB-C iPad users to Lightning iPad users.
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