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Said it before, those saying making the phone bigger will make it worse are basing that on current design, make it a little bigger but taper it and you can fit a 4.3", 3:2 ratio screen (ideal largest phone screen size before it gets too large) but still be easy to handle, arguably easier than the square-edged iPhone 4/S

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Love it! I would marry this phone.
 
Since you're so critical about product numbering. You don't think it's strange to own a Lumia 900 since we didn't see anything prior to Lumia 600? Where the hell is Lumia 100 to 500? They should be exist before .. it drives me crazy :rolleyes:

/Consistency, please.

Because Nokia is so lost with the numbering they don't have a chance.

Apple still has a chance man....they still have a chance! :rolleyes:
 
very nice appearance of iPhone
no matter how horrible ppl c it, they'd buy it anyway, just check out the sales volume later

very nice accent btw
Sree inches
Sank you
 
3GS/4 users and the general public will buy.

I will not.

I have no interest in a 4SLong.

I can't help but think they have screwed people just to continue with their "no fragmentation" claim.

Very sad.

Apple, call me when you change the aspect ratio.

I'll be in the Google Nexus camp, come November, assuming I can convince someone on ebay that my phone is indeed a 4S and not a "4" or "4S Long" ;)
 
I have a feeling the new iPhone will be called...

The New iPhone
iPhone 5
iPhone 4G
iPhone 5 x 4G = $20,000

And people, calm down with the 'leaked' design... Even though it doesn't look like what you expected, it will still be the best iPhone ever made.

What I mean by that is, it will have better hardware specs and increased speed. My worry is, battery life will take a hit with the better processor..
 
NOOOO!!! That's a total nightmare. That looks so fugly.

If Apple going to announce that hideous Frankenstein next month, I will sell away my 32Gb iPhone 4s and go for Android phone!!!
 
I really can't see how Apple can sit through a design meeting and say "yup, let's just make is longer and awkward, that's great!". I was very excited about the iPhone 5 and was really hoping it would have a screen the same size or very similar to the Galaxy S3 but it has failed... *sigh*. I'm really really hoping these videos and pictures aren't real
 
The scratch test was a joke though, "The iPhone 4S full of scratches" *points to the edge*.
Of course the iPhone 4S will be damaged at the edge it's 0,1 mm thicker after all. So when going from 4S to "5" it will just skip over the edge and on the way back it will hit the edge of the 4S with full force, no surprise here...
 
The glass most certainly is glued to the lcd and digitizer. Here's a pic from the iPhone 4 (the 4S is the same). http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone-4-Teardown/3130/3

OK, yes, they are stuck together once assembled - but it is possible to pry them apart and replace the glass independent of the LCD if you want to.

The point is that the glass and LCD are different parts that are sourced separately from different suppliers. They are not manufactured together as a single unit, so it is not strange or unusual to see a glass lens without an LCD attached - which is what the poster I was replying to was suggesting.
 
OK, yes, they are stuck together once assembled - but it is possible to pry them apart and replace the glass independent of the LCD if you want to.

The point is that the glass and LCD are different parts that are sourced separately from different suppliers. They are not manufactured together as a single unit, so it is not strange or unusual to see a glass lens without an LCD attached - which is what the poster I was replying to was suggesting.

I just did a cursory google and I'm not seeing anyone able to do.

I doubt the screen is glued on by hand even at the factory. I'm thinking a clean room and robots to get the optically clear adhesion without dust particles and what not. I wouldn't be surprised if no human hands touch that glass before it's glued to the digitizer and lcd.

So, I'm still unswayed they would easily be found separate. I think it's much more likely a counterfeit operation cut the glass.
 
Why?

The single, central home button is a great design feature. Not only does it provide a clear visual signal as to the orientation of the handset (the earpiece and camera can be hard to see on the black model) but it's a nice and easy way for non-technical types to feel comfortable with the phone. You always know how to get back to the home screen from any submenu or inside any app. Just a nice, reassuring, physical button right there in the middle and pop! you're back at the home screen. Sometimes old-skool is the way to go and this one little button is a really useful feature.

Also, it's now iconic, like the click wheel on the iPod. In a world full of almost indistinguishable, black, slab-like devices, the little round home button with the rounded square icon is instantly recognisable. Functional, aesthetically pleasing and iconic - why would you want it to go away?

Why? Because the home button is something that has been around for a while. It's time to take things to the next level. The potential is in the 'slide to unlock' function. When you slide from left to right has so much possibilities.

I honestly hope that in the near future the home button makes place for a 'slide from left to right'. At that place you can see your incoming messages, the song that your playing, a tiny little notification center that can take you right to the desired place in iOS 6.0. I can think of a million possibilities that would take even your breath away when it comes to the 'slide from left to right' in stead of the home button.
 
So, I'm still unswayed they would easily be found separate. I think it's much more likely a counterfeit operation cut the glass.

Completely different factories, in various different countries, make the glass and the LCD. It's not that someone has separated them (even though that is entirely possible to do), it's that the parts were never joined in the first place. That is most likely something that is done during assembly of the phone at Foxconn.
 
Darn. Was hoping for more of a redesign on the next phone but the more leaks I see, the less likely it looks.

Can someone explain to me why there is no VOTE DOWN button?

Because without the simple "vote down because the statement is utterly idiotic", you force me to quote the post, wasting space and bandwidth, to point out to the person that they're post was exceptionally worthy of DOWN VOTE.
 
Who will introduce the iPhone 5? Scott?

Does he pretend like nobody has seen it before, or does he do a joke like Steve did with iPhone 4 after Gizmodo..... ("Stop me if you've seen this before....")
 
4" is still to small for me.

Apple needs at least two models to satisfy all: 4" and 4.8".

Otherwise I am getting Galaxy SIII

Why wait? Apple is not doing a Hummer phone, we know this for a fact, so be on your way and get it over with.
 
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How many different ways are there to do a rectangular design. The current design is more than sufficient. Now it seems there will be some other material choices. These constant "change for the sake of change" is ridiculous.

The iPhone 4, 4S, 5, and even likely 5S, are using the current design. So totaling over 4 years with a very similar form, people anxious for a major change is hardly constant or ridiculous.
 
is Apple really going with the same form / case design?
I know if it ain't broke don't fix it, but what about innovation and progress... lets move forward with something different:p

Innovation and progress would generally be the internal hardware & software* unless the design has significant impact on the way a product is used. The aerial was innovation between 4 & 4s even though the form stayed the same. The hardware changes were innovation & it wouldn't have mattered what the case changes were.


Of course, there could be ergonomic changes to the case that would be innovation, which I too would applaud.
 
I agree some space should be there around the bottom... but it doesn't need to be as large of an area as Apple made it. The SGS3 above is perfectly usable.

Apple seems to be pretty stubborn about its home button size and the symmetry of the phone though. Unless Apple re designs the home button or gets rid of it in favour of a virtual button, there probably will be a large bezel above and below the display.
 
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