Likely won't see any drastic case designs until Liquid Metal is ready to roll out on a larger scale.
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High Resolution 'iPhone 5' Renderings Based on Leaked Parts
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As a pure Apple geek (a geek but who has been using Apple for years), this is the end of an era for me.
I've followed Apple since I was 8 (a Macintosh offered by my parents), had lots of iPod, Power/Macbook and iMacs.
But since the iPhone 4S, iPad 3, OSX Lion and not-changing Macbooks and iPod Touch, AND Steve Jobs death, Apple is dead to me. Not to the mainstream market it has reached now but for the people who have made the success of the brand this is clearly the end and I'm starting to be one of many to know it.
I've followed Apple since I was 8 (a Macintosh offered by my parents), had lots of iPod, Power/Macbook and iMacs.
But since the iPhone 4S, iPad 3, OSX Lion and not-changing Macbooks and iPod Touch, AND Steve Jobs death, Apple is dead to me. Not to the mainstream market it has reached now but for the people who have made the success of the brand this is clearly the end and I'm starting to be one of many to know it.
Hate to say this as I love Apple design and IOS, but its looking dated against the competition, also the Iphone 4s already looks outdated against some of the Samsung offerings. I was given a phone from a client last week as my 4s decided to stop working again, but when I gave the Galaxy back I actually was shocked at how much I missed it.. The Iphone was slower and smaller and too light!!
The renders we are seeing here are only a 3D interpretation of the 3D parts leaked. Nobody knows for sure what the interface will look like.... don't assume anything.
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Best Phone ever.
Best tablet ever.
Ok Lion could be better.
All new Mac's are coming next week,
People die everyday but you could at least give credit to Steve Jobs that he made sure the best talent are still working for Appple.
You sound like someone who can never be satisfied no matter what Apple brings next.
A striped back?
I would be gobsmacked if Apple allowed the back to look like that. I understand if Apple doesn't doa massive overhaul of the design, unless there is a good reason. But to have a segregated design for the back like that ... it would be unbelievable to me.
I would be gobsmacked if Apple allowed the back to look like that. I understand if Apple doesn't doa massive overhaul of the design, unless there is a good reason. But to have a segregated design for the back like that ... it would be unbelievable to me.
I'd bet my life savings that the same anti-apple-iPhone-pro-Android people are the ones queuing all night to be the first ones buying the new iPhone, no matter how it looks like. So funny - same happened with some blokes here hating the 4S upgrade but being the first ones buying it haha
Please excuse my ignorance, but why exactly will Liquid Metal enable drastic case design changes?
What sort of design would utilise the qualities of Liquid Metal, that no other more cost effective material could provide?
A unibody enclosure? Surely a true unibody enclosure is not possible unless a phone case is made entirely from glass? as presumably you always need a transparent display screen.
With Liquid Metal, I suspect it gets mentioned more than it deserves simply because it has a cool name.
Apologies if I've misunderstood this, perhaps someone could clarify.
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you mean iPhone 4sSL (Super Long)
i dont like the new aspect ratio of the design personally, would prefer it if it went out a bit as well up as up. Looks like a high tech flip flop
I don't think the glass will be that thick, and especially not layered on top. I think it will be inside the metal casing, so there's no glass sticking out.
Overall I'm no fan of the bigger screen. Do really all smartphones have to be a million inches? I don't understand how people fit a S3 or whatever high-end 4inch screen or more inside their pockets. Inside one pocket okay. But not in all my pants. Do you all wear elephant pants with pockets the size of NY?
I always liked the iPhone for being small. That's a phone that can easily fit in all my pockets, like my iPod touch. I like that the phone doesn't get any wider, but the lengh, meh. I'll have to hold one to be sure ofcourse. I've never liked the trend of huge phones. Ofcourse S3 phones and stuff are thin, if you roll dough and you roll it flat you have very flat dough but it's huuuuge. And I still can't get over Apple going to fragment the screensize.
As for the rest of the design, I quite like the look of the black one, and I surely like te 'unibody' style of the back and sides. Headphone jack in the bottom is a plus I'm guessing.
If this is the phone that gets announced next week or in a few months, I don't know. Looks like the iPhone 4S with perhaps a better camera experience and more Siri features. And ofcourse a ew exterior (hopefully). But her needs to be something more, a real one more thing, something that'll make the iPhone stand out in the crowd of smartpones... I still don't see why an iPhone is better spec'd than any other high-end smartphone. Apple has got so many resources, financial and employment, why not go full-throttle?
Overall I'm no fan of the bigger screen. Do really all smartphones have to be a million inches? I don't understand how people fit a S3 or whatever high-end 4inch screen or more inside their pockets. Inside one pocket okay. But not in all my pants. Do you all wear elephant pants with pockets the size of NY?
I always liked the iPhone for being small. That's a phone that can easily fit in all my pockets, like my iPod touch. I like that the phone doesn't get any wider, but the lengh, meh. I'll have to hold one to be sure ofcourse. I've never liked the trend of huge phones. Ofcourse S3 phones and stuff are thin, if you roll dough and you roll it flat you have very flat dough but it's huuuuge. And I still can't get over Apple going to fragment the screensize.
As for the rest of the design, I quite like the look of the black one, and I surely like te 'unibody' style of the back and sides. Headphone jack in the bottom is a plus I'm guessing.
If this is the phone that gets announced next week or in a few months, I don't know. Looks like the iPhone 4S with perhaps a better camera experience and more Siri features. And ofcourse a ew exterior (hopefully). But her needs to be something more, a real one more thing, something that'll make the iPhone stand out in the crowd of smartpones... I still don't see why an iPhone is better spec'd than any other high-end smartphone. Apple has got so many resources, financial and employment, why not go full-throttle?
People crack me up. The next iPhone could have everything that the vocal minority demanded AND come with a $1000 cashiers check & the same vocal minority would complain that it wasn't $1001.
Judging from the videos on their website I'll summarize what I think I heard.
If you look at cases with rounded edges, bulges for camera and other features you'll notice they're all made of plastic. Getting organic shapes in plastic is easy with injection molds and other processes but plastic isn't very strong.
You cannot cast aluminum and other metals into intricate shapes because they crystalize and this causes faults and weakness.
Liquid Metal gives the best blend of both. It's liquid form allows it to be shaped far more exotically yet when it hardens it is stronger and does not crystallize.
Not sure how helpful this is but look at the energy transfer of LM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOHoRdgx4uA incredible.
Prefer the current iphone 4, if the 5 is just longer, that's disappointing and kinda lame update from the 4S. So much for innovation, seems Apple is just tweaking all their designs. Come Monday it will probably be the same old with just Ivy Bridge and USB 3.
If this new aspect ratio lasts as long as the old one... you only have to deal with radical changes like this once every 5 years.
Yeah... it would be nice if Apple kept the same aspect ratio.... but oh well. Apps will be updated in a short time and we'll all move on.
Remember the switch to Retina? It happened... we all survived... and it's now a part of history.
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I should have clarified. LM is supposed to offer an pretty solid ratio of weight/strength.
Though I think you adeptly point out why it appears aluminum is still the king.
I should have clarified. LM is supposed to offer an pretty solid ratio of weight/strength.
Though I think you adeptly point out why it appears aluminum is still the king.
I have upgraded to every model of the iPhone but I think I'll pass on this one. The screen is a little bigger but it seems more like a small tweak. Knowing Apple, they will come out with a more feature rich Siri or extended map feature that requires the iPhone 5 CPU or Mic upgrade.