With dry ice perhaps. Point me an architecture that doesn't fry itself at a clock higher than 4-5GHz without special cooling, though?
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Can future iPhones ever be thinner than the iPhone 5?
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With dry ice perhaps. Point me an architecture that doesn't fry itself at a clock higher than 4-5GHz without special cooling, though?
I'm not talking about the Motorola Razr, I'm talking about other Android phones that are much thinner than the iPhone 5 bar nothing. From Apple's website, the iPhone 5 is 7.6 mm thick, but there are Android phones that have already been out on the market since the beginning of this year that are thinner than 7.6 mm throughout the length of the body:
For example, the Oppo Finder:
http://androidadvices.com/top-5-thinnest-designed-android-smart-phones/
It was clearly false advertising by Apple.
The only problem is, how smart is it and the god damn battery life. Apple should've said: the thinnest smartphone of its class, or the thinnest true smartphone LOL
That page says it's not available yet? From what I can tell it hasn't been released. Apple's product is shipping now.
Fair enough, but my question still stands. Can this phone become thinner and still have the headphone jack?
Also good point, none of these phone are even out yet? So technically Apple is correct?
It's been available to buy for half a year now. That link for a new article back in June. For example, you can buy it from http://android-sale.com/oppo-finder.html
Geez, all of the phones have been for sale for months. Stop trying to grasp at non-existent straws. You could have bought the Oppo Finder back in June/July of this year. The iPhone 5 isn't even for sale in many countries.
My bad, when I searched I found an article for the Oppo Finder 5 saying it hadn't been released yet.
Grasp at non-existent straws? Relax dude, just looking for clarification around if the product shipped yet.
The 3.5mm will disappear in the same way as the optical disk is on its way out.
Integration into the lightning plug might not happen as the manufacturer would need to join a license agreement to use the new plug (I assume). Plus it would be limited to Apple eco system only. An open standard like BT seams more feasible.
But of course BT need to get better; in a crowded environment I still get many drop-outs. Not funny to use (with my Motorola SD9). the next 5 years we still have the jack; the size of battery and screen will leave enough space for it.
Integration into the lightning plug might not happen as the manufacturer would need to join a license agreement to use the new plug (I assume). Plus it would be limited to Apple eco system only. An open standard like BT seams more feasible.
But of course BT need to get better; in a crowded environment I still get many drop-outs. Not funny to use (with my Motorola SD9). the next 5 years we still have the jack; the size of battery and screen will leave enough space for it.
BT seems like a good idea, but there are reasons why people don't buy BT headphones now. Like another thing to charge, bigger, and more expensive.
Ivy and Sandy Bridge both clock up to 3.9ghz in a stock config. Plenty of people are running 4ghz+ on air/stock cooling.
There were some phones made by Sony etc. that used a smaller version of 3.5mm plug. The 2 sockets are electrically identical, and an adapter is needed to plug in your 3.5mm earphones. So Apple may well change to that plug 2 years later. But god knows if they will include the adapters free or charge $19 or $29? Anyway third party adapters are everywhere.
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Battery life is the biggest concern.
I'm not a huge fan of the squared off design. Thinner is always better, but too thin may cause issues with breakage and room for innards. Although I am happy with the improvements of the 5 vs. 4/4S overall, I was really hoping to see a design more like a mini iPad or a slimmed down 3GS. Just my preference.
I'm not sure how does a design more like a mini iPad look like. But I do welcome that the next iPhone will be a slimmed down 3GS.
Like this:
Exactly! I find the iPhone 4S difficult and uncomfortable to hold due to it's thinness. I can't imagine the 5. I would prefer battery life to thinness. It's not like people were going around claiming the 4S was too thick!
They could make it thinner by getting rid of the head phone jack all together and make people plug their headphones in through the Lightning connector, with a free adapter that comes in the box, of course.
Yep welcome to the iphone 5S, this year we are improving the new iphone by, making it a little thicker with a bigger battery and more structural support, I know amazing, why didnt we think of that with the 5?
I reference CNN:
The iPhone 5 is a porker by comparison.
http://micgadget.com/30455/which-is-the-thinnest-oppo-finder-vs-iphone-5-at-cnn-video/