How come I never thought of this? That we don't have to wait a year for this to come out. This would be a really good thing. People shouldn't be so worried.
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Foxconn Developing Glass Casing and OLED Displays Ahead of Tenth-Anniversary iPhone
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How come I never thought of this? That we don't have to wait a year for this to come out. This would be a really good thing. People shouldn't be so worried.
Every next Gen iPhone is the best one yet, until it's released and you find it doesn't come with all the gee whiz bells and whistles promised in the leaked press releases.
I was waiting and hoping the iPad 2 would be retina, when it came out without retina I decided not to buy it but I was primed to buy the 3. Luckily I'd learned my lesson with Apple, always wait a month and read reviews, so I knew the 3 was garbage. I bought the 4 at the black friday sale a couple of weeks after it launched.
At least that meant it only cost me $450 to learn that tablets aren't for me. I barely used the thing and I don't even remember the last time I charged it.
Agreed. The 4 introduced a drool inducing design. The 4S introduced an amazing camera/Siri/insane speeds and the last iOS to actually not be riddled with bugs that took MONTHS to fix. Honestly I'm glad Im on the S cycle every two years.
Why do i have a feeling, that next year Will be more of a design and display update but less of a technical upgrade without a lot of speed increase?
I have a feeling the tech spec upgrade/speed improvement will be more impressive this year with the iPhone 7.
Seems the other way around..
Sounds like you might have wandered into the wrong neighbourhood my friend, better turn back while you can. Watch your back around these here parts.
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My last phone was all glass. My current one contains no glass. While the glass imparts a feeling of refinement that unbreakable laminates can't, I think there's a genuine but different kind of appeal to using a phone you don't have to coddle.
Not most of the time. I had both the 4 and the 4s and everything I own gets dropped a few time. No cracks, not even any scratches I could see.
Ignore that fool. I'm excited too. I'm actually more excited than I have been in a couple of years. For me, the 6/6S is too big, the SE doesn't have enough capacity, and the whole force touch thing is meh.
The SE's success will remind Apple that there's a market for smaller phones. If they don't cripple the smaller one with humorous RAM I'll snap one up in a heartbeat. Especially if they put in a superb camera.
Apple's got nothing to do with these screens. It's all Samsung innovation driving OLED displays. Apple is just on board for the ride. They're not a true OEM like Samsung.
Do expect that Apple will announce an SE successor just 5 months after releasing it?
Remember, MR readers are an infinitismial amount of folks, and the trollers an even smaller subset of that. In contrast, the vast, vast majority of iPhone users and wannabes love iPhones and the related Apple ecosystem. As a result, while you may not buy the new model, conservative estimates are that somewhere around 70 million people will buy it, just in the next quarter. At the end of a year, probably close to 200 million people will have bought it.
No. Not what I said.
This thread's about the anticipated 2017 10-year anniversary iPhone. I do hope/expect they'll make a smaller version of that.
Seriously, who cares about what the case looks like. It's the internals that really matter. I'd be perfectly happy to see the same design every year, if Apple made some worthwhile upgrades to the guts of the phone. Until an iPhone is on par with other flagship models from the likes of Samsung, I'll pass. MINIMUM features include:
This is what I will get, if I buy a similarly priced phone from another manufacturer. I don't think it is unreasonable to expect something similar from Apple. Since I can't see even the iPhone 8 having all these, I'll pass.
[doublepost=1470778679][/doublepost]Unfortunately, what wouldn't surprise me is Apple doing a typical lack-luster speed etc bump for the iPhone 8, but then also bringing out a super expensive tenth anniversary special edition with all the extra features etc that we are seeing in the rumours.
This would certainly seem to fit the approach that the company has. It's almost a definite that they will use the 10th year anniversary of the iPhone as a marketing tactic to increase their profit margins even further.
- 4 gb of memory
- 64 gb MINIMUM of storage
- 4k screen
- an 8 core processor
- water proofing
- a headphone socket
- a retina eye scanner
- fast charging
- wireless charging
This is what I will get, if I buy a similarly priced phone from another manufacturer. I don't think it is unreasonable to expect something similar from Apple. Since I can't see even the iPhone 8 having all these, I'll pass.
[doublepost=1470778679][/doublepost]Unfortunately, what wouldn't surprise me is Apple doing a typical lack-luster speed etc bump for the iPhone 8, but then also bringing out a super expensive tenth anniversary special edition with all the extra features etc that we are seeing in the rumours.
This would certainly seem to fit the approach that the company has. It's almost a definite that they will use the 10th year anniversary of the iPhone as a marketing tactic to increase their profit margins even further.
That was a solid announcement. Miss Steve Jobs for his stage presence especially. But the announcement would've been so much better if Gizmodo hadn't leaked the pictures/iPhone 4.
A retina scanner made your deal breaker list?! Um, wow.
I'm also interested in understanding the allure of wireless charging.
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Meh. That one was more on Apple's head. A secret device should not have been left in a public place. Mistakes happen, but you can't blame Gizmodo for not missing out on the story of the year and all those lovely clicks.
Well, except for expensive Vertu phones, that is
It was not the first.
Back in summer 2007 when the original 320x480 @163 PPI iPhone first went on sale, you could buy a Toshiba Protege smartphone with a WVGA 480x800 @312 PPI screen. (It also had a fingerprint sensor, 3G radio, Opera browser, and a front-facing camera for video calls.)
Other "retina" category displays that predated the 2010 iPhone 4 included the 2008 Sony Xperia X1 (312 PPI) and the 2009 Samsung Jet (301 PPI).
They were advertised as being the first "print quality" (300+ DPI) screened phones. That's why, years later, Apple had to come up with a different marketing name ("retina") for the exact same thing. Lord knows that Jobs was not about to say "And here's the not-first-print-quality screen on a phone!"
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