Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Drawings of Alleged 4.7-Inch and 5.7-Inch iPhone 6c Models Surface [Updated]
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Just give me a bigger screen but still fits comfortably in my pocket...and 128 GB 
----------
Kinky
----------
I figure Apple will introduce 2 models:
1. Upgrade iPhone to catch up with bigger screen lovers and manufactured
2. Enter phablet market
Current screen size will move down as a "lower end model"
----------
Kinky
----------
I figure Apple will introduce 2 models:
1. Upgrade iPhone to catch up with bigger screen lovers and manufactured
2. Enter phablet market
Current screen size will move down as a "lower end model"
Just because you *can* fit something huge into your pocket, that doesn't make it comfortable to do so. Or maybe you wear big old baggy pleated pants, I don't know.
It's either change for the sake of change of change for the good (or bad if your idea is faulty or has bad implementation). 4,7 and 5,7" screens aren't changes for the good. It's change for the sake of change. Just because everyone else do it too. And it was never a path of Apple. Apple was always a fighter for the innovation.
What am I expecting? Do what you can do the best. Release the innovative products. Focus on iWatch. It sounds like a great idea. If you can't bring new innovative features to the product on a yearly basis, then do it more rarely. No one forces you to release a buggy OS and release another one year later when you didn't yet finish to patch bugs of the previous release. You shouldn't call it "innovative" just because number changes from 7 to 8. People know when they're being fooled. Fix the problems you already have. Entice users to upgrade to Mavericks. 36% of them still sitting on OS X 10.7 and 10.8. And 10.9 is free. You can't? Why? Maybe because the OS is not so good or innovative? Maybe you should release updates every 1.5-2 years just like you did some years ago, releasing it when you are really ready to release something new and inspiring? Or maybe you just don't try hard enough to entice them.
Learn the lessons of iPhone 5c. Don't rush to update iPhone when you didn't yet analyze all your issues. And what, smartphone "has been defined"? In 2006 everyone thought "smartphone has been defined". Stylus, tiny icons, hardware keyboard, etc. And the next year Apple shows the iPhone. In 1983 everyone thought "PC has been defined". And then Apple releases the first Mac. And see how it evolved over years. No one at Apple said in 1991 "oh, now the Mac is defined, let's just upgrade processor and RAM".
iMac in various forms, and each one was a genius one on itself, Cube G4, Power Mac, new Power Mac 2013, iBooks, aluminum MacBooks, MacBook Air... First mass-market computers with optical drives, USB, FireWire, Thunderbolt... It was the evolution of great ideas, not the yearly 'evolution' of bigger screens and processors dubbed with the words "oh, it's magical".
I think Apple should take a pause and refresh its mind. There were too many doubtful decisions recently. Clearly, 5.5" screen is not the great idea. And it seems it exists only because there're no other ideas at Apple on how to improve the iPhone.
Pairing with iWatch would be great. But this year iWatch is not ready for release yet. It needs new original fresh design, not the one that's shown on these pictures above. New features, I don't know out of my head which exactly, if I was paid for it, I'd really sit and think on how it can be really improved. If there're no ideas right now, I'd just refresh the existing model with few spec bumps and a new color and improve the existing features. Touch ID has a great potential that needs exploring. As well as iBeacons, offline Siri, some kind of offline Maps, some tricks with Touch ID, improved iCloud support, maybe a couple of new apps as it was rumored, better camera. It'd be mostly software updates but it can be tied to current and improved 5S to boost and keep sales. And then you'll have another year to come up with something really improved and fresh, not just a bigger screen. And when you got some really nice ideas for the next iPhone I think you'll be giggling that once upon a time you had plans to make it 5,5" large. Also there must be differentiation of some kind. Samsung has 7" phones - great! Let them do it and keep Apple releasing current 4" models. If Jeep makes off-road vehicles it doesn't mean Porsche should start making it also.
It's like asking "oh, Android and Samsung has this and that... If you add these things, I'll switch to iPhone". Why? Keep using Android. iPhone/iOS and Android/Samsung are different things and iPhone/iOS has its own great features and a different set of advantages over Android. No need to make iPhone/iOS a clone of other products. Especially considering other products are already cloning you. That means, up to this point you did everything right.
The problem with opinions like yours is that some people tend to think they're true , which I can't even begin to explain how I feel about close minded ,quick jumping , opinions that think they know what innovation is and yet they sit on a sofa self employed as an arm chair CEO.
You must be joking thinking
A) you know me
B) you understand the world
Please take one.
I don't wear baggy anything and the width of the current iphone is not even a half a pocket's width with normal pockets. It's a non issue unless a 3 year old is carrying it in his pockets. It's used by those that have the need to "invent" a physical reason rather than just saying they prefer a tiny phone or embarrassed to say they have tiny hands. Period.
My iphone is roughlyt 2.1 inches wide, are you REALLY saying your pockets are that small???? Be serious now, my 10 year old nephew has pockets wider than that and carries a 4.5" phone comfortably.
Last edited:
There's a part of me that just can't wait to give the iPhone and iOS another shot. The size of that outline has me eager to see what the next phone is.
It'd be nice to see some real digitizer support come to iOS as well.
few CEOs are product designers; Jobs was an outlier. you probably can't name any others without doing a search on it.
I get the high quality mockups and I get the possibly leaked parts pictures, but why bother publishing this? High quality mockups give you an idea of what's possible. Possibly leaked parts tell you might what actually happen. A flat sketch gives you neither and anyone can make one.
I can sketch a rounded rectangle on a napkin and write numbers on it, then scan that and send it in telling you it's related to the iPhone 6. Will you publish it?
I can sketch a rounded rectangle on a napkin and write numbers on it, then scan that and send it in telling you it's related to the iPhone 6. Will you publish it?
My ex-gf preferred 3.5 inches...saying she liked thickness over length.
She was lying.
While I'd love for Apple's secrets to stay secret it isn't september yet.
Let's see ...
Edge views contradict each other. The sketch is poppycock.
The edge views contradict each other. You can't taper all four edges without creating weird corners not shown in the other perspectives. The sketch is an obvious fiction probably inspired by speculation about a Nano style iPhone 6.
Apple is fanatical about controlling their image and the iPhone is their number one profit generator so I doubt they would go backwards with an old style that distracts the media and taints the marketing message of their prized product's launch.
The edge views contradict each other. You can't taper all four edges without creating weird corners not shown in the other perspectives. The sketch is an obvious fiction probably inspired by speculation about a Nano style iPhone 6.
Apple is fanatical about controlling their image and the iPhone is their number one profit generator so I doubt they would go backwards with an old style that distracts the media and taints the marketing message of their prized product's launch.
Sorry but he's right -- you're a sofa-based armchair CEO, while cook is CEO of the biggest most profitable tech firm in the history of the planet, and has been the right hand man of said firm for 15 years. He's an operations man and doing a fine job. The design team is as well.
its a compound curve. it exists. in fact, the edges in these drawings are very similar to the edges of the original iPhone.
----------
see above post
Tim was never hired as the idea man. He was hired to run the company smoothly while the idea men rolled out their ideas and products.