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First Alleged CAD Renders of iPhone 14 Pro Show Pill-Shaped and Circular Cutouts Replacing Notch
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Guess what everyone?
Still looks like an iPhone!
Until I see some radical departures of utter genius like svelte protective bumper corners cleanly integrated into the piece of jewelry, I mean, into the iPhone, who cares about a notch, pill, or no notch.
Still looks like an iPhone!
Until I see some radical departures of utter genius like svelte protective bumper corners cleanly integrated into the piece of jewelry, I mean, into the iPhone, who cares about a notch, pill, or no notch.
I feel like if this design actually comes out people will change their minds pretty quickly. What's not to like about having more visible screen?
I'm late to the party, but I'm going to say it anyway.
If this is what Apple does with the notch and you prefer the old notch...
Use a wallpaper with a notch. Or in the least, one that fills in the gap.
And that, folks, is why I make the big bucks. /s
If this is what Apple does with the notch and you prefer the old notch...
Use a wallpaper with a notch. Or in the least, one that fills in the gap.
And that, folks, is why I make the big bucks. /s
I agree that it makes complete sense for Apple to further differentiate Pro models from non-Pro’s using different chipsets. It’s actually been odd the past couple of years having their lower priced iPhones offering many of the same performance parameters as Pro models. This kind of shift is really just following what they’re doing on the laptop/desktop side of the business. I think it also is suggestive that when a new iPad Pro gets released, it’s going to have either an M2 or some plus version of M1 chip, since the new iPad Air comes with the M1 chip.
Unless Apple makes use of this extra screen by adding more status bar elements this is worse than the notch, having the screen wrap around something like that will look worse for video content and just in general, what’s worse is I don’t doubt Apple won’t make use of it since they didn’t with the reduced notch on the 13.
I work in a store that sells phones and a lot of people want the mini. They are always sold out. It makes absolutely no sense to ditch it.
They added Touch ID to the MacBook Pro in 2016 only to drop it in the iPhone in 2017
Normally upgrade every year, but I don’t think I will this year. Love my 13 mini too much!
Steve Jobs would've flung whoever came up with this design out the window.
No problem with the pill, no problem with the notch, but I’m genuinely disappointed that the cameras seemingly won’t be flush.
Considering the current market turmoil as well as rising costs of rare earth metals I hope u got the duckets to support that want.
I really REALLY hope this is a ridiculous rumour about different chips in the lineup. I’d rather iOS gets a slight fork of a Pro for much higher end feature set that uses the Ax chip more intensely, maybe a good reason to have more RAM in the Pro models using a boost in iOS while the regular models do not.
This move, if true, is worse than making the mini, then gutting the mini for 2yrs and still keeping the home button + TouchID when all these last few years Apple is promoting security for FaceID. It’s as if 2 people are running the show at Apple. If they’re not careful this could end up like Android‘s state of CPU and wretched OS lack of support every year. Uggh.