Apple are also rumoured to be coming up with iPhone SE2/9 or whatever they call it, based on iPhone 6-8 chassis design, but with modern internals. If the rumours are right, it might be announced as soon as this week. 🖐
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Bloomberg: 5G iPhones to Feature Flat Edges and Slimmer Notch, Smaller HomePod and AirTags Also Coming This Year
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Apple are also rumoured to be coming up with iPhone SE2/9 or whatever they call it, based on iPhone 6-8 chassis design, but with modern internals. If the rumours are right, it might be announced as soon as this week. 🖐
Lol, you know that you’re doing something wrong if David Lynch tells you to “get real”. 😂
Agree. I'd even pay more for a larger HomePod with larger drivers.
HomePod with no speaker and digital / 3.5mm / bluetooth output. Priced at $75. It will never happen.
iPhone 4mm taller and 4mm tall notch the full width of the screen. It will never happen.
Headphone jack........
Tim Cook quits
iPhone 4mm taller and 4mm tall notch the full width of the screen. It will never happen.
Headphone jack........
Tim Cook quits
I like the look of the flat design but always found it uncomfortable to hold and was very happy when the 6 shape came out for my poor soft danny paws.
Yep. And just wait for next week when the new rumors totally contradict this weeks rumors, leading you to believe people have just been making crap up all along
Man, you’re going to feel sooooo sheepish about this comment when Apple releases an AirTag that tracks quantum phase changes! 😆
Good riddance to the "bar of soap" design of every insanely slippery iPhone made since the iPhone 5. In my opinion it's horrible. Embrace the edge!
Great! This means I made the right decision buying the 11 Pro. Now I can hold off buying another iPhone until they go back to rounded edges and move to a notchless design 
Sharp edges are:
A: Less comfortable to hold
B: More prone to leave ugly marks on your pants
Sharp edges are:A: Less comfortable to hold
B: More prone to leave ugly marks on your pants
Correct, that will never happen.
No speakers, no beamforming-driven adaptive room equalization. No reason to exist.
Just use a cheap BT speaker (that you may already have and your phone for Siri commands).
"Tim Cook quits"
That's not going to happen, either.
The flat screen with no rounded edges rumour is interesting.
I remember reading a comment Corning about their latest gorilla glass and they said that if it had a rounded edge and protruded from the main housing of a smartphone, that compromised the strength of the glass.
Obviously this is exactly what Apple’s current phones do!
I remember reading a comment Corning about their latest gorilla glass and they said that if it had a rounded edge and protruded from the main housing of a smartphone, that compromised the strength of the glass.
Obviously this is exactly what Apple’s current phones do!
Apple doesn't seem serious about HomePod. Still not for sale in many countries, too expensive for what it offers being handcuffed by the poor performance of Siri. Drop it Tim and spend the resources (human and monetary) on core products.
Especially with the 4s version that had the redesigned antenna system that wasn't susceptible to the signal drop. This is my favorite version.
The notch doesn't nor ever did bother me. I still like it better than a home button and Touch ID.
I've been waiting for the new iPhones to come out to upgrade. my Xr is just about paid off. I was mainly waiting for the 5G upgrade to be ahead of the curve.
Call me an idiot, but ditch the rounded edges and bring back the square design, and I'll wait in line for this shiet. It'll be the best retro design change in recent memory.
The current crop of rounded phones are just to hard to grasp & easy to drop. I would love it if they brought back the squared off design. I think it would be a good choice.
I've been waiting for the new iPhones to come out to upgrade. my Xr is just about paid off. I was mainly waiting for the 5G upgrade to be ahead of the curve.
Call me an idiot, but ditch the rounded edges and bring back the square design, and I'll wait in line for this shiet. It'll be the best retro design change in recent memory.
The current crop of rounded phones are just to hard to grasp & easy to drop. I would love it if they brought back the squared off design. I think it would be a good choice.
It needs better features to appeal to more people. Audiophiles aside, most people today buying a speaker want good sound and a smart speaker. Siri, while much improved, still needs a lot of work. (And a sense of humor programmed in. Man, is she dry and not at all witty.)
The HomePod wasn't a sales dud because it didn't sound good. Even with $100 pretty much being chopped off for ages now at most retailers, it's not selling well. Siri just needs to be a more compelling assistant.
Bloomberg is certainly not any “news organization” I would trust for Apple “news” after the reporting they did a year or so ago about “Chinese embedded spy chips” on Apple and other companies product produced by Chinese-based manufacturing companies.
After making this expose, they could not produce a single piece of evidence — either showing this embedded chip or how they ascertained the information — and every vendor named investigated the claim and flatly denied it.
Bloomberg flatly refused to withdraw the claim or acknowledge the “error of their ways.”
Bloomberg — that whole fiasco turned them into another faux news on technical reporting.
After making this expose, they could not produce a single piece of evidence — either showing this embedded chip or how they ascertained the information — and every vendor named investigated the claim and flatly denied it.
Bloomberg flatly refused to withdraw the claim or acknowledge the “error of their ways.”
Bloomberg — that whole fiasco turned them into another faux news on technical reporting.
I recently switched back to an iPhone from Android (mainly out of boredom and wanting something different). Face ID is pretty awesome.... but that notch is far more annoying to me than how awesome Face ID is. The in screen finger print sensors are pretty flawless now. Even a smaller notch is still going to be bulbous compared to Android phones that have pretty much gotten it down to a small, nearly non-obtrusive punch hole.
The whole look at your screen and swipe up is not as intuitive as put your finger on the screen and voila the device just opens. And it really is a screen real estate vampire. Alas, I doubt Apple will do this after pushing Face ID so heavily, but will throw it on my wish list.
I disagree with this on two fronts. HomePod is not a product like iphone and doesn't need an abundance of hardware updates...software updates sure.
Apple has the resources to work on Homepod and something else. It's like the meme, Apple can't work on emojis and update IOS at the same time, that's been parroted on MR.
This was the best design of any iPhone IMO. That form factor with today's screen designs would be awesome.
Don't think I said anything about hardware updates.
Of course Apple has the resources to work on HomePod and something else. I didn't say it didn't. It just seems that whatever resources (meagre or substantial) are being spent on HomePod seem to be wasted.
With the state of the world I don't even really care about this stuff this year. The only thing I'm kinda interested in is picking up an updated MBP so I can get out of my basement while working. I only have a 5K iMac at the moment. But then on the other hand, who even knows if I'll have a job later this year?