Complete 'iPhone 5' Front Panel and 4" Screen Photos

The thing I just don't get with this new iPhone design is:

Fragmentation. I mean really? Is Apple going down this road now? I can't understand them screwing up the set resolution, after they've strived to keep it the same, and then doubling it to keep things simple.

I just don't really understand this new resolution model, and how it fits into the existing lineup. Please someone help me to understand this.
 
How?

ios 6 looks like ios 5, apart from you lose google maps.

same old boring design from 3 years ago.

few more pixels at the end of the screen. 4" still to small for a smartphone in todays world.

same crap battery capacity.

Same locked down OS.

Whats new then?

First of all, the OS is not part of the phone. iOS 6 will be available on the iPhone 4S and 4 also. And sorry, but there's more to iOS 6 than losing Google Maps.

There are plenty of lists available of all the hardware changes. Whether you like them or not, there are many changes. 4" screen, headphone jack on bottom, slightly bigger battery (you call that bad capacity?), new Dock Connector, redesigned antenna, slightly different exterior design with two-tone, upgraded CPU, more RAM... These are the only ones I have off the top of my head.

So complaining about the iPhone not changing just because the overall exterior design is different doesn't make sense. The insides have changed a lot.
 
Flesh?

You must be thinking "Phallic Symbol" ... that fits with Apples obscenely large ego, and opinion of themselves. :)



In other news, it appears that Apple may be experiencing some real fear.

The quote below reveals it all:

"Apple is demanding more than $2.5 billion in damages and a sales ban, while its rival is demanding licensing fees."


This clearly shows Apples fear of competing with Samsung. Converseley Samsung is fearless. My how things have changed. I'm surprised that Apple is so paranoid, and would stoop so low. What a pathetic public display of cowardice.

What happened to the strong, confident Apple of the past?



http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/17/apple-samsung-idUSL2E8JHL7P20120817

Samsung is fearless?
Is that why they tried to bring up evidence that was false?
Tried to use documents that were excluded and made news headlines?
Tried to have a lawyer in court that didn't even have a license?
And had 40 minutes compared to apples 2 hours on the last day of court and tried to stuff as many witnesses in that time as possible?
Pissed off the judge a couple time...

And I guess you're not very familiar with lawsuits between tech companies but they ALWAYS demand a ban on whatever their sueing
Just like when Motorola won a court hearing over 3G patents in Germany for a few days and all apple 3G devices sales were on hold till apple appealed and got it granted.
 
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I keep seeing a lot of talk of "innovation" and about Apple not doing this or that (the unspoken bit is that Samsung (or whoever) is out there innovating away). As a developer across iOS and Android platforms and a frequent user of both (dog food eating), I'm struggling to understand what people mean by "innovation" when they suggest Apple isn't doing it. The two OSs and ecosystems are both very sophisticated in their own ways, which you use depends on your preferences. Both are innovative in my mind and will have their religious adherents.

Hardware-wise, there's the usual leap-frogging a-la Nikon/Canon in the camera world. One will have the bigger, thinner, longer this or that, but are rectangular thin things on which you can make calls, take pictures, run apps. They'll likely be rectangular/squarish things for a while yet.

Innovation comes in many forms and doesn't always mean "radical change". Nor does it mean keeping up with the Jones'.
 
Hopefully the iPhone 5 look like this and not that piece of useless cheap dog **** that we been seeing thru leaks... If not galaxy s3 suddenly looks like the best option.


If apple put out the iPhone 4 long they deserves to get trashed by Samsung

Yes, because the shiny plastic on the S3 is beautiful. :rolleyes:
 
My notion has always been that Apple will only increase the screen size in units of rows or column of app icons (which they have done this time) unless they completely revamp the UI of iOS.

Umm, dude, listen. iOS UI is need a total revamp. Is now just a big mess of single app icon spread out all over screens. Looks like big mess.

Is obvious to smart person that now with Steve Job gone, Apple has no motivation to make any big change, they just now cash their checks, written by dead Steve Job. Wow.

:mad::eek::apple::eek::mad:
 
Where as Android phones are, and always have been a smartphone for teenage boys who have nothing better to do with their lives than play with their phones?

I'm neither a mother nor your granny; I'm an IT professional who chooses an iPhone because of the quality of its design, construction and software. It does what almost anyone needs a smartphone to do well. The update will be a solid evolutionary step to keep it at the cutting edge, and by cutting edge I don't mean a bigger screen, widgets or arbitrary change of appearance simply to satisfy those with such empty lives and an attention deficit disorder that requires a new phone to give them meaning to their existance.



That is not a limitation, it's simply a reflection of the quality of Apples design.

Quality of Design?
Construction?
Software?

give me a break!

iPhone 4 - i had 7 of them in 1 year due to crap software & hardware - Couldnt answer calls because the screen wouldn't respond, and the proximity sensor never worked so it cut people off. Dont get me started on the dropped call number or crap signal reception.

Contruction - they are built well and are rock solid until you drop them from 2 inches off the ground and the glass shatters.

65% Market share of the smartphone market Mr IT Unprofessional - how many teenage kids does it take to make nearly 2/3 of the total market? :rolleyes:
 
Lot of GS3 love here. It's definitely a very good phone, but I dont see this sexiness about it, I also think the OS (standard) looks kind of meh, just not refined. Like the tile look of Win8 better and webOS (which should be what Android is today) damn HP.

Anyway yeah bottom line and fact, no matter how many people on the net moan and whine, like here and especially engadget, the new iPhone will be a solid phone, will sell 20+ million same old routine. If its a 4 inch screen that will lead the firing squad's ammo. In the real world whenever I brought up a lot of phones are heading closer to 5 inches, I could not get a more disinterested "So." or "okay...."

If I was rocking the CEO position at Apple, after going on a nice spending spree for myself I would make fun of internet comment haters with viral videos and throw money at a camera, basically give them a you are meaningless in the larger scheme schtick just to mess with them.

I do find it cute those comments on those sites try oh so hard to bring the man down by supporting the other man.....LOL ********ng all so stupid.

1st world problems. :p

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Quality of Design?
Construction?
Software?

give me a break!

iPhone 4 - i had 7 of them in 1 year due to crap software & hardware - Couldnt answer calls because the screen wouldn't respond, and the proximity sensor never worked so it cut people off. Dont get me started on the dropped call number or crap signal reception.

Contruction - they are built well and are rock solid until you drop them from 2 inches off the ground and the glass shatters.

65% Market share of the smartphone market Mr IT Unprofessional - how many teenage kids does it take to make nearly 2/3 of the total market? :rolleyes:

They are more fragile for sure, but I have seen a lot of other phones break from small falls. Depends how it lands. iPhone's in my circle of people I know I cant recall hearing one problem and thats around 20 phones so it swings both ways. ADD: I did have a friend drop his from shoulder height and the screen shattered) Another has dropped it quite a bit and its fine.

Android marketshare is whatever OS is on the same amount of devices. Guaranteed. Don't kid yourself if it was webOS everyone was using they would hold similar #'s. Windows and Androids market share will never impress me, there really is no choice for the most part. Apple has their own way of doing things which obviously works for them.

WinMO might make a dent and hopefully it does if the robot gets up to 80% then peace out to innovation. They can be lazy.

Nothing against you by the way, just discussing. :D
 
When gizmodo bought iPhone 4 before release it was the same situation. Just wait for Tim to show us what they made. Those are just parts and we only know 20% of what the iPhone 5 will be. New dock conector, larger display and unibody design. If it is all about display size and exterior look what makes iPhone special, then yes, you are right to be critic. Tim said that this year they have some extraordanary products for us and Ive said this is the work of his life, so please - trust the people who made the ipod, ipad and the iphone.
 
Kinda with some of the others...at this point I'm sorta underwhelmed and hoping it's some kind of creative diversion tactic by Apple (hoping, but don't seriously believe that's the case). If you told me those were a pics of an iPhone 4, I'd believe it.

I'm past the days of dropping $300 bucks on a tweaked (or slightly elongated) new iPhone...looking for something jaw dropping which everyone knows AAPL is capable...they single handedly redefined the smart phone market. Maybe the uber thin profile is what's getting lost in translation in the leaked shots...hope somethings getting lost. --R
 
The thing I just don't get with this new iPhone design is:

Fragmentation. I mean really? Is Apple going down this road now? I can't understand them screwing up the set resolution, after they've strived to keep it the same, and then doubling it to keep things simple.

I just don't really understand this new resolution model, and how it fits into the existing lineup. Please someone help me to understand this.

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Fragmentation? The iOS platform is still the same for all iOS devices. The alterations of hardware benefit that particular device, and in the case of the iPhone, Apple have made it taller to accommodate more visual information in, what is, a small hand-held space. The original iPad will remain a 4:3 aspect ratio because that benefits the user experience at that scale.
 
Umm, dude, listen. iOS UI is need a total revamp. Is now just a big mess of single app icon spread out all over screens. Looks like big mess.

Is obvious to smart person that now with Steve Job gone, Apple has no motivation to make any big change, they just now cash their checks, written by dead Steve Job. Wow.
Apple has always alternated between bold moves and multi-year iteration to refine. Remember that iOS 2, 3, 4, and 5 came out with Steve Jobs at the helm. Iteration was nothing foreign to Jobs.

You might be right that the UI needs a revamp but iOS 6 isn't it and thus the hardware (ie, screen size) of the next iPhone will have to live within the current UI. And Android is not much different (yes, you have live widgets but apps are listed as icons, or a plain list, hardly revolutionary).
 
7 iphone in 1 year?? Kid, give me a break with ur made up story. iphone is not destructable unless is with u when ur momma gives u a bath. lol

:apple:

its not made up if i was going to make stuff up i would have used the iPhone 4S.

the iPhone 4 was the worst phone i ever owned. Apple gave me a brand new retail one as compensation instead of the refurb crap they give you in the store. This went right on ebay.
 
Whatever the design or screen size they are never going to please everyone with one universal iPhone. That's why I think they should follow the same strategy as they do with the MBA/MBP and have 2 iPhones. One small and light with a 3.5" screen and one with a better spec and bigger 4.5" screen. The iPhone Air and the iPhone Pro. Something for everyone.

Exactly. Apple are a little too scared of "fragmentation". If they kept the 3.5" and added a 4.5" model, developers would only have had to target one additional resolution; most developers would not hesitate because iOS apps are still where the money is for them. And by keeping the 4.5" model in a 3:2 ratio, the apps of the "lazy" developers or apps that aren't actively supported anymore could just have been scaled to fit.
 
Whoever doesn't believe this is the new iPhone is in pure denial. I will be floored if Apple revealed something different than the leaks we've seen.

You mean like how we got a teardrop phone last year. All those leaks etc of that one weren't wro--

Oh yeah, right
 
Is obvious to smart person that now with Steve Job gone, Apple has no motivation to make any big change, they just now cash their checks, written by dead Steve Job. Wow.

We are so lucky to have such a smart person as you sharing your remarkable insight with us. I sure hope when Apple hires you to replace Tim Cook you will still drop in here to continue to share your wisdom.
 
They can't lock down Foxconn like they can Cupertino, if the parts are being used they can leak at any time.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. We have no idea what security measures they can and do have. For all we know Chinese law allows them to strip search anyone at any time, to allow cameras even in changing rooms, to prohibit locks on clothing lockers so they can be easily searched hourly if desired etc.
 
I think Apple's problem going larger is their fear that the phone would eat the mini iPad sales. Looking at the S3 and Note-sized phones you can see that they do much of what a tablet can. The note two is nearly 13 square inches of display (current iPhone ~5.5 inches in comparison). And for everyone claiming these new phones are too big...well I think you're going to end up changing your mind. Even the largest, Note 2, is much small than a standard paperback.
It's really the size of a normal sized scientific calculator.

The reason for smartphones being so small in the past was power drain, screen cost and the availability of cheap, low power gpu's. As things have progressed, the calculator sized display is now here (at least for companies besides Apple).

People are buying them in droves because the size makes it far easier to type on them, and makes reading easier.

For many people, the 5"-8" form factor (similar to a paperback) is probably where they'll eventually land.

Apple is sticking to the tiny size, despite the obvious advantages, and I think it's to force us to buy a mini. Just a hunch.
 
Fragmentation? The iOS platform is still the same for all iOS devices. The alterations of hardware benefit that particular device, and in the case of the iPhone, Apple have made it taller to accommodate more visual information in, what is, a small hand-held space. The original iPad will remain a 4:3 aspect ratio because that benefits the user experience at that scale.
I agree with you that changing the resolution on the iPhone doesn't cause fragmentation any more than releasing the iPad did. But it's wrong to say that the iOS platform is the same across all devices. Apple has gotten, in my opinion, pretty bad about fragmentation by restricting features to newer devices when those restrictions aren't based on changes to the hardware (i.e., Siri is only available on the 4S; turn-by-turn will only be available on the 5.)

And, as far as I can tell, the only reason they're doing this is to force you to upgrade sooner than you otherwise would.
 
I'm really not interested. iPhone users have been fed the same product with tweaks here and there for years now, and if you ask me the iPhone is no where near deserving of being called an "elite phone" anymore.

you may be shocked to find that the vast majority has zero issue with the physical shape and UI being the same while the internal power is increased. In fact they prefer that a company not revamp the design just to call everything new but rather 'tweak' to create a better product. And they don't need huge tweaks that don't really result in huge increases or use potentially unstable tech instead of more solid offerings.

And that is why, as you say, Apple will still sell millions of their 'crappy' phone
 
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