Closeup Photos Show Clear Difference in Thickness Between iPhone 5 and 4S

[Geckotek]

honestly probably the iPhone 4. iPad two perhaps, Retina didn't do much for it other than miss out on battery life. I think the note is a great phone though, I used one for a couple of months and Samsung really innovated with that stylus and integrating it so well with that phone. Android's notifation center was genius, something that Apple completely copied off of. Although I have a hard time saying that since it was half assed.

What else? LTE isn't really an innovation but I feel it should have been standard in phones by now. It's not so much the lack of innovation that bothers me as much as Apple releasing half-assed products for the past couple of years. iMessage was really the only notable release, hardly innovative though (bbm). 4s and iPad three have horrible batteries. OSX ML has been a terrible release so far. My macbook's battery has been halved in the same amount of usage, and no real notable upgrades.

I personally think retina was an innovation as it was not something other phone manufacturers were doing and it made a tremendous difference in the quality of the display.

Didn't Android copy someone else on the notification center? I don't recall but thought I read that somewhere.

I don't consider a stylus innovative in any manner as it has been around for so long. Perhaps the pressure sensitivity would be considered innovative. But I honestly have no use for it. I've bought one for my iPad and I never use it. But I do see how others find it valuable...just not for me.

My new iPad has a great battery and my 4S is good too.....but either way, Apple isn't exactly in the battery business. They rely on the battery manufacturers to innovate. Not sure there's a lot they can do there. Don't blame Apple for your MacBook battery issues by any means.

So what we've come up with is a pretty small list of innovations and we've determined what I thoguht we would....it's not innovation that is really the issue here. And I think what you mean to point out is Apple is slow to update features, but except for very few notable exceptions, they've always been this way so I don't understand the frustration??

 

[SR71]

- The screen seems to have deeper blacks that the 4s.

- It looks to me as if the structure is not steel, like it was in the 4/4s, but alluminium, which means we can hope for a lighter phone

I too noticed that. I always disliked how "white" blacks were on the iPhone 4/4S. Hopefully they've found a way around it without using OLED.

 

[marcoogutierrez]

looking good

i bet you all this is gonna be by far the best looking and overall the best iphone ever, stop comparing it to any of the previous ones, its just better. taking more advantage of space, 16:9 screen aspect ratio, thinner, less exposed panels.
its hard to tell before its even out yet, but this is gonna be a big hit.
pd: and the bottom looks sleek too.. its innovation.

 

[marcoogutierrez]

all of you ''bottom of the iphone 5 haters'' will end up loving it, we all know... i mean if you get to have one, seeing that with your own eyes will change anyones mind.
lets give a go to change.

 

[jaysen]

I too noticed that. I always disliked how "white" blacks were on the iPhone 4/4S. Hopefully they've found a way around it without using OLED.

knowing apple, probably not. This will be their "new" feature two generations from now marketed as; "The Only True Black, and Whitest whites"

 

[ixodes]

Being so thin, it will be interesting to see how it holds up to being sat on.

In this college town all the girls carry them in their back pocket, of super tight pants.

I often wonder.

But Apples got a great engineering group so I'm sure it's designed to be strong.

 

[jaysen]

Being so thin, it will be interesting to see how it holds up to being sat on.

In this college town all the girls carry them in their back pocket, of super tight pants.

I often wonder.

But Apples got a great engineering group so I'm sure it's designed to be strong.

How they gonna fit the extra junk in the trunk!?

 

[Geckotek]

Being so thin, it will be interesting to see how it holds up to being sat on.

In this college town all the girls carry them in their back pocket, of super tight pants.

I often wonder.

But Apples got a great engineering group so I'm sure it's designed to be strong.

I do this too and habitually pull it out as I sit down.

 

[gngan]

They no doing a nice design change like they doing with MacBook air.

What the hell are you talking about?

 

[marcoogutierrez]

1152x648 what do you think?

Hi, I've been making some calculations. Im a fanboy and a bit too obsessed.
the thing is, iphones until now have not had an exact 3.5 inch screen but about 3.5392 inches. (ppi is 326 of iphone4s)
what i mean with this is that an exact 4 inch with 1136x640 resolution we'll get a ppi of 325.97.... and its unlikely to make an exact 4.00 inch screen.
So if apple only didnt make an exact screen size just like it has been doing until now, making, say for example, a 4.0544 inch screen, the ppi would be 322 ppi with a 1136x640 resolution, and i think it is very possible that they wont make and exact 4.00 inch screen.
Apple wouldnt let the ppi go down for marketing reasons. so i've found a possible solution to this.
a 1152x648 screen resolution is a perfect 16:9 not like 1136x640 (16:9.014) and that makes a difference... actually the 16:9.014 just feels wrong.
a 4.0544 inch screen at 1152x648 would result in a perfect 326 ppi.
and 4.0544 inches is almost exactly 0.5 or more inches larger than the current 3.5392 iphone 4s screen.

why to choose it:
So to have a better 16:9 aspect ratio i think apple would choose the 1152x648 resolution. This also would make the ppi a perfect 326 with a 4.0544 inch screen which is more than 0.5 inches bigger than the iphone 4s.

Why wouldnt they choose 1152x648? Well the only reason is that they'd have to increase 8 pixels horizontally, but i dont think thats a big problem because 8 pixels are almost insignificant at that ppi, and all that apple would need to do is zoom in the apps that werent yet optimized, this zoom wont be noticed with this pixel density, so just like what happened with the transition from the 3gs to the 4, developers will start doing apps in the newer 1152x648 and they can take their time because in the meantime the 640width app will fill the screen being insignificant the pixelation created with the zoom.

After all this make your own conclusion. 1152x648 is a perfect 16:9
everything makes much more sense... just 8 pixels cant justify changing the aspect ratio of a really respected 16:9...

--- Tell me what you think and make me any questions. And please could someone tell me what source said it will be 1136x640 and how truth or secure this is? was it just a rummor? is there any chance of a change?

By the way this is my bet, i bet they introduce a perfect 16:9 1152x648 4 inch screen (4.0544... or so) with a ppi of 326. This is one of the surprises apple is preparing for us and im shure its the best choice of screen to do for them.

--- I calculated the ppi's in this website http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html
--- iphone's screen measurements have been done with my own methods.

sorry if i didnt explain very well but english isnt my first language, again any questions or comments theyll really be appreciated.

 

[Mark Petereit]

Show the damn BACK!

Dang! Google much?

 

[Tech198]

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I prefer this one -

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