With all the rumors so far?
I think it will be more surprising than the iPhone 4 when first introduced.
I think it will be more surprising than the iPhone 4 when first introduced.
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Do you feel the iPhone Edition will be Revolutionary?
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For sure i think it will be
1. It will be first iPhone to have bezel less Display
2. No home button
3. OLED Display with 521 PPI density
4. Wireless Charing
5. Face-ID
https://9to5mac.com/2017/02/16/iphone-8-higher-pixel-density/
1. It will be first iPhone to have bezel less Display
2. No home button
3. OLED Display with 521 PPI density
4. Wireless Charing
5. Face-ID
https://9to5mac.com/2017/02/16/iphone-8-higher-pixel-density/
I feel like it has the potential to be up there with the iPhone 4 in terms of improvement in design and screen/display. That felt like a significant jump at the time.
Revolutionary would imply a major upheaval for the better in how phones are used and what they can do. Nothing to suggest that will be the case, however, it will be a big evolution of the existing iPhone design and how you interact with it (gestures rather than home button etc)
iOS 11 will do that
I mean first phone with only gestures to use and face ID and augmented reality.
3D camera and DSLR like 4K recording.
The original iPhone was revolutionary in that it made smartphones accessible, genuinely useful to people and 'cool' rather than nerdy - allowing people to access a relatively unneutered version of the web from almost anywhere, introducing the App Store to download micro-pieces of software to improve functionality, pushing new technologies to the mass market.
What's wrong with that statement?
It's untrue.
The App Store was released with the 3G, along with a price cut to make it feasible for people at large and upgraded (3G) internet speeds.
So was the 3G actually the revolutionary phone? Well, then you have to consider it built upon what was already there. Going on to power and new technologies, the 3GS, 4, 4S all brought big new things to the table, building on what was already there.
What I am trying to get at is simply that it's not an individual model of iPhone that's revolutionary, even the original. It's the iPhone line itself with its accrued improvements and what it's brought to the world. Saying the 8 in particular is revolutionary when it's actually just a revamped version of what's gone before seems a bit hollow when you think about it in this way. 3D, VR, AR etc are all just new features being added in to the revolutionary platform.
It will be a new experience, of course, the new gesture controls do look like a welcome streamline of what's become a clutter of add ons that have been put in place ad-hoc where they will fit, making for a somewhat clunky iOS 10 but I'd still say that's an evolution of existing controls (swiping up for control centre merged with double press for app switcher, not a whole new way of doing things) and of course you had force press to open app switcher with the 6s etc. So overall, still no to revolutionary, but a very welcome new development for iOS & the revolutionary iPhone!
Nothing about it is revolutionary apart from perhaps the facial recognition if they get it absolutely spot on. Revolutionary implies that it does something special that changes a facet of the phone industry for the better.
1. It will be first iPhone to have bezel less Display
Not really revolutionary in any way shape or form and has been done by samsung already
2. No home button
Thats taking something away so its hard to call it revolutionary. What replaces it would be the thing that could be revolutionary i.e. faceID
3. OLED Display with 521 PPI density
Android phones have had this for years now
4. Wireless Charing
See above, most people don't care about it and other phones have had it for ages.
5. FaceID
This is about the only thing that apple could do that would make it revolutionary. TouchID you could argue was quite revolutionary in its speed, ease of use and application across the OS. Fingerprint scanning was about obviously before hand but no one did it nearly as well or made such brilliant use of it.
1. It will be first iPhone to have bezel less Display
Not really revolutionary in any way shape or form and has been done by samsung already
2. No home button
Thats taking something away so its hard to call it revolutionary. What replaces it would be the thing that could be revolutionary i.e. faceID
3. OLED Display with 521 PPI density
Android phones have had this for years now
4. Wireless Charing
See above, most people don't care about it and other phones have had it for ages.
5. FaceID
This is about the only thing that apple could do that would make it revolutionary. TouchID you could argue was quite revolutionary in its speed, ease of use and application across the OS. Fingerprint scanning was about obviously before hand but no one did it nearly as well or made such brilliant use of it.
nope, apple could give us a apple bag full of **** and people would call it revolutionary.
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No. It's not going to change the way people use or think about phones. In a lot of ways it's just catching up to the competition.
I don't think it will be all that revolutionary because everything it is offering is already available with other phones on the market. We already have OLED screens out, small bezels etc. I don't see it as revolutionary. It will be a great refresh of a stale line. And the other phones that offer these things are cheaper. That being said i am sure they will sell a TON of these. But revolutionary...nope
There are already phones with similar specs and features. Granted... I know I know not as impressive as Apple's, but revolutionary? No.
Some new features like getting rid of the home button or facial recognition are interesting, but that would be like calling the removal of the headphone jack revolutionary. It wasn't. It was more of an inconvenience for many of us who do not yet use bluetooth with all of our peripherals. It was just a way of getting users to convert to an all wireless way of listening to music.
Adding or changing features to promote users to migrate from an established way of doing things, may be considered by some to be moving forward, but again not revolutionary.
Wait I take that back, turning the camera on it's side, that is revolutionary. Moving power and volume buttons from the top to the sides or vise versa, that's revolutionary... I don't know about you guys, but I have several Apple products. Every time I use an iPad or iPhone, depending on the model, I keep pushing the wrong button. The power button on this model was moved here, the volume buttons on that model is over there. Get's confusing. Can't tell you how many times I wanted to turn up the volume and shut off the device by mistake.
What would make sense would be to have uniformity. If your going to remove a headphone jack do it on all products. Use USB 3.1 on all devices for charging and adding peripherals. Include dongles to use across all devices. That would be revolutionary.
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I see it a bit differently. When the iPhone came out, I remember it was revolutionary because most of us still used flip phones. Blackberry had the market covered with typing and texting. Palm introduced the Treo with a stylus, but Apple made it easy with a touch screen navigated with your fingers. A true music player built in. Some phones offered limited music playback, but it was an afterthought. Apple started a new way of using the phone. I was so excited when GPS apps became available. I remember saying back in 2004... "Someday I would like to have a phone with built in GPS and a music player all in one". Up until that point I was carrying Thomas guide maps, then a separate dash mounted GPS, separate music player. iPhone put it all together. That was revolutionary from a user standpoint.
Nowadays it's all about faster processors, better screens, longer battery life. Some might call processor technology revolutionary, but the phone itself has been relegated to "upgrades".
Some new features like getting rid of the home button or facial recognition are interesting, but that would be like calling the removal of the headphone jack revolutionary. It wasn't. It was more of an inconvenience for many of us who do not yet use bluetooth with all of our peripherals. It was just a way of getting users to convert to an all wireless way of listening to music.
Adding or changing features to promote users to migrate from an established way of doing things, may be considered by some to be moving forward, but again not revolutionary.
Wait I take that back, turning the camera on it's side, that is revolutionary. Moving power and volume buttons from the top to the sides or vise versa, that's revolutionary... I don't know about you guys, but I have several Apple products. Every time I use an iPad or iPhone, depending on the model, I keep pushing the wrong button. The power button on this model was moved here, the volume buttons on that model is over there. Get's confusing. Can't tell you how many times I wanted to turn up the volume and shut off the device by mistake.
What would make sense would be to have uniformity. If your going to remove a headphone jack do it on all products. Use USB 3.1 on all devices for charging and adding peripherals. Include dongles to use across all devices. That would be revolutionary.
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The original iPhone was revolutionary in that it made smartphones accessible, genuinely useful to people and 'cool' rather than nerdy - allowing people to access a relatively unneutered version of the web from almost anywhere, introducing the App Store to download micro-pieces of software to improve functionality, pushing new technologies to the mass market.
What's wrong with that statement?
It's untrue.
The App Store was released with the 3G, along with a price cut to make it feasible for people at large and upgraded (3G) internet speeds.
So was the 3G actually the revolutionary phone? Well, then you have to consider it built upon what was already there. Going on to power and new technologies, the 3GS, 4, 4S all brought big new things to the table, building on what was already there.
What I am trying to get at is simply that it's not an individual model of iPhone that's revolutionary, even the original. It's the iPhone line itself with its accrued improvements and what it's brought to the world. Saying the 8 in particular is revolutionary when it's actually just a revamped version of what's gone before seems a bit hollow when you think about it in this way. 3D, VR, AR etc are all just new features being added in to the revolutionary platform.
It will be a new experience, of course, the new gesture controls do look like a welcome streamline of what's become a clutter of add ons that have been put in place ad-hoc where they will fit, making for a somewhat clunky iOS 10 but I'd still say that's an evolution of existing controls (swiping up for control centre merged with double press for app switcher, not a whole new way of doing things) and of course you had force press to open app switcher with the 6s etc. So overall, still no to revolutionary, but a very welcome new development for iOS & the revolutionary iPhone!
I see it a bit differently. When the iPhone came out, I remember it was revolutionary because most of us still used flip phones. Blackberry had the market covered with typing and texting. Palm introduced the Treo with a stylus, but Apple made it easy with a touch screen navigated with your fingers. A true music player built in. Some phones offered limited music playback, but it was an afterthought. Apple started a new way of using the phone. I was so excited when GPS apps became available. I remember saying back in 2004... "Someday I would like to have a phone with built in GPS and a music player all in one". Up until that point I was carrying Thomas guide maps, then a separate dash mounted GPS, separate music player. iPhone put it all together. That was revolutionary from a user standpoint.
Nowadays it's all about faster processors, better screens, longer battery life. Some might call processor technology revolutionary, but the phone itself has been relegated to "upgrades".
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Disagree. These features are not what make the iPhone revolutionary. There features that make the iPhone a better experience for the user and convenience. The features you have listed are upgrades that come with improving the iPhone annually in terms of build and maturity of technology. The iPhone has always been a slower process in with adopting the latest technology, but The iPhone is a seamless experience because of how well everything meshes together.
