Bigger Displays Rumored for Next Year's iPhone Models

[MrMojo1]

Are people really demanding such huge phones? Pockets are only so big!

The Pro Max models are very popular in many parts of Asia and in Europe.
You can even see a lot of people with those bigger models poking up and out of their pant's pockets and carry-ons in the U.S.

As I've mentioned before, some people want the larger screens, particular for aging eyes, like the old Plus model, but don't want to pay a premium for the Pro Max just to get the screen.
The screen now has ProMotion so that'll be good until Apple decides not to include it anymore.

The weight isn't that much ~8.2~8.5 oz. Anyone who says that it weighs a lot may want to do some exercising.
May be that the larger dimensions of the Pro Max models that make it difficult to wield but the relative weight <8.5 oz shouldn't be an issue.

Has anyone noticed that some men carry a huge wallet in their pant's back pocket or women who carry lots of bulky Stuff in their purses, esp. the tiny ones? They manage well enough.

The Pro Max is Not an issue for some people.
Many don't try the model at the store before buying then complain & regret loudly to then downsize to a smaller iPhone model.
How about trying out the Pro Max iPhone size Before buying?

 

[HazeAndHahmahneez]

Curved glass all around so you break it the first time you drop it?

If i believed in conspiracies I'd think Apple wants us to replace our phones more often...

And will the 2028 model require a wheelbarrow (sold separately) to carry it around?

Yup! Polishing blanket sold separately too (of course)!

only $289!

Please bring back the Plus model with the larger screen, battery & storage space ~256g Minimum.

No way plus is coming back! It prob ate too much into Pro Max sales SMH

As far as good for your eyes, obv natural sunlight is the best but when using a device don’t forget NIGHT SHIFT mode! 24/7 is my recommendation…

Looks like Apple has completely written off the group of users that want to use their phones one handed

I have trump hands (prob smaller lol) and aside from texting I pretty much use my 16 max one handed…easily too…with a case on it…

Off on a little tangent. I think iPhone Air came as a result of creating the iPhone Ultra. I think Liquid Glass is a feature meant for iPhone 20.

Liq Glass is also
Intended for when iPhone melds with Vision Pro for an all new device in abt 10-20 years…

Liq glass is Apple thinking
Long term and that’s very exciting! Liq glass the best, baby, let’s GO!!!

The Air with an additional wide lens camera is my perfect phone tbh

Haha no way Apple is interested in the perfect phone…it’s all abt the Pros and the Ultras and then everything else is smaller or lighter but significantly less capable…for now at least, maybe the new guy Ternus has something else up his sleeve…

The rendered image at the top of the article that MacRumors has been using for a little while for its 20th Anniversary iPhone articles doesn't look like what the rumors have been rumoring.
My guess is that this isn't what Apple is working towards.

Any chance you could whip up your own personal rendering??…. Without outsourcing it?…TIA, peace, go Sox!

 

[danpass]

Pro with an Air-sized screen, or close enough, and I'm in.

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[AssassuN]

don't enough people want a smaller screen?

i feel like the current 6.3" is already not a "small" option, and I have pretty big hands.

the 5.8-6.1" range was perfect for the smaller iphone, not sure why they keep pushing it up.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

Any chance you could whip up your own personal rendering??…. Without outsourcing it?

I wish I could, and regret never developing the skills to create CGI renders, and you're right I wouldn't want to outsource it to an AI since that would be a big exercise in frustration. I've tried to get them to create illustrations to specific specs in the past, and they just don't listen to me, creating something else instead. I know they're supposedly much better now, but my past experience with them keeps me skeptical.

So just a description of what I'm imagining will have to do for now. I doubt whether the entire surface of all four sides of the phone will be part of the display, and instead (as some rumors have it) they'll come down only part of the way, and past that point there will still be a metal band around the phone, but not as wide/tall front to back as the current bands. Maybe the band will be made less instrusive by having the curving-down edges of the display meet the metal band flush at the same height, rather than the current design where the metal band sticks out past the edges of the display. The result of this design is that when you look at the phone face-on, all you see is the surface of the display, all the way out to the edges of the phone, which was one of Jony Ive's goals.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

don't enough people want a smaller screen?

i feel like the current 6.3" is already not a "small" option, and I have pretty big hands.

the 5.8-6.1" range was perfect for the smaller iphone, not sure why they keep pushing it up.

It's because the sales figures for the minis didn't meet Apple's profit goals. They were profitable, but not profitable enough for Apple, compared to the profits from the greater demand for its larger iPhones. The minis definitely weren't loss leaders, but we know Apple really likes big profit margins.

The last iPhone mini, the 13, accounted for less than 5% of total iPhone 13 model sales for the year after its release in Sept 2021. As a percentage of all iPhones sold that year, which includes sales of earlier models Apple still sold, it was only about 2-3% of that year's sales. Sales for the larger iPhones were much higher. The base iPhone 13 accounted for about 28%, the 13 Pro was about 9%, and the 13 Pro Max was about 14-15%. Apple kept selling the 13 mini for about another year as a discounted model (they lowered its US starting price from $699 to $599), for the Sept 2022-Sept 2023 period, but during that year its sales still didn't pick up.

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