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Hints of iPhone 8 Showing Up in Web Analytics

Kaibelf said:
Remember when 800x600 on a 17" desktop display was considered luxurious and beautiful? I can only imagine where we will be in about 20 years.

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Add 30 years to your 20 and there may not be monitors. Images will be transmitted directly into your visual cortex in as high of a resolution and update speed as your brain can handle.

Now, I'm going to take a break from predicting future technology and take a trip in my flying car. It's a vintage 1980's model.
 
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so if this is true, 5.15 display but 5.8 glass area means's there will always be a "black bar" at the bottom for touch id? even when you turn it sideways? I'd rather have 5.8 display with touch id on back or side if thats the case.
 
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Why no chance there will be a 5.8 usable screen, with functional buttons as part of the app?
 
Sunny1990 said:

Here is a fresh video showing dummy of So Called iPhone 8, and it looks awful :mad:
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While Kuo says the overall 5.8-inch display will have a resolution of 1242 x 2800 pixels,

That will be a nice upgrade to the aging 1080p display. My iPhone 7 Plus display looks nice but more pixels will be a warm welcome
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Don't worry, these things tend to "look awful" only while this crowd continues to believe that the actual phone will look different.

If rumors continue to support this look closer and closer to the launch date, sentiment will shift from "awful" toward "it's kind of growing on me" and "wait & see".

Then, if Apple stands on a stage at the "big reveal" show and presents the new iPhone that looks exactly like that, the hordes will gush "best iPhone ever" and "shut up and take my money."

A few might cling to "wait and see one in person" but then will join the gushing too.

The few outliers will be shouted down as trolls.

Screens bigger than 3.5" and then 4" were ripped as "abominations", fragmentation (poor developers), driving man purses & pants with bigger pockets, "one handed use" and so on... UNTIL Apple rolled out phones with bigger screens to a chorus of "shut up and take my money" and "best iPhones ever" (and record sales). I'm still to see man purses and pants with bigger pockets and apparently all of our hands magically grew.

Same sequence of events with every new iteration. The issue now is that there is still plenty of room to question whether that is the final look or not. As this crowd begins to believe THE design is set- whatever that will be- "awful" will transition to "perfection" pretty quickly.
 
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"but it will likely be some sort of dock-like area that could include fingerprint sensing, Home button functionality, and likely other dynamic icons and buttons for interacting with the device."

Two comments:
(a) TouchBar for iOS !!!

(b) Expect approximately a billion comments when it is released about how it is copying early Android with its fixed soft buttons at the bottom of the screen...
 
Kaibelf said:
Remember when 800x600 on a 17" desktop display was considered luxurious and beautiful? I can only imagine where we will be in about 20 years.

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No higher in resolution, but we'll have 240hz displays as standard with 240fps, 12 bit colour, HDR with nits capable of 4000 - and likely in 20 years both OLED and backlit LED will be dead, looks like CLED might have taken over by then - the benefits of OLED with much brighter individual pixels and less (or no!) polarisation and banding at near black levels.
 
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Kaibelf said:
Remember when 800x600 on a 17" desktop display was considered luxurious and beautiful? I can only imagine where we will be in about 20 years.

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Well if resolution keeps increasing, I'm going to need an eyeball upgrade to take advantage of it.
 
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macTW said:
Yes. Because we need more pixels in a handheld device. /s
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ACST said:
This he types while looking at his 27 inch 1080p display...
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While 1080p is more than adequate for distant viewing, for things like AR/VR where in some cases you want the phone less than a foot away from your eyes, 1080p would be considered to be on the lower part of the spectrum of minimum res to awesome res.

With a device less than a foot away from you, you would very easily be able to see a significant difference between 1080p and 4k
 
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ry-guy said:
Yeah, why would someone at Apple testing/using the new phone think "Hmm, I should browse on all these Apple rumor sites with this new Iphone just to test it out". Unless some employees are purposely trying to hint at products or just messing with people, it seems kind of odd. I feel like the execs would tell you to purposely stay away from any of these sites, no?
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Do you not understand how PR and publicity work?
An Apple that has ZERO rumors is an Apple that is unexciting. What's going to keep Apple constantly just visible in the public consciousness?
But obviously an Apple with everything visible is also unexciting.
(a) No-one cares about the big events anymore.
(b) Mistakes happen very visibly and can't be corrected behind the scenes.

Obviously the best place to be in is a constant stream of plausible, but not definitive, rumors. And, big surprise, that's exactly what the Apple PR machine generates/"allows" to happen.
 
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If the non-OLED models don't have the same aspect ratio, that will be highly disappointing. I guess I'll stick with Android then if that proves to be the case.
 
redman042 said:
Well if resolution keeps increasing, I'm going to need an eyeball upgrade to take advantage of it.
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Note that the original retina reveal was spun as the maximum a human eye can see. If that was true, all updates since have been overkill. But "we" eat it up anyway... even pine for such upgrades that we apparently can't even see (or forgive the lies that we told back then).;)
 
szw-mapple fan said:
Whoever is looking at MR on the 8's resolutions must be begging to be found through analytics. I mean, MR is well known for analyzing the traffic coming to their site, especially for new devices and OS versions.
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This was my thoughts exactly. Why else would these so called engineers visit the site every single day knowing that macrumors analyzes the traffic?
 
HobeSoundDarryl said:
Note that the original retina reveal was spun as the maximum a human eye can see. If that was true, all updates since have been overkill. But "we" eat it up anyway... even pine for such upgrades that we apparently can't even see (or forgive the lies that we told back then).;)
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Everything they said was true, people just misconcieve things.

Original Retina:
The maximum a human eye can see from average using distance.

If you bring the device an in to your eye, you will need much more than a 1080p display to saturate the eye's bandwidth.

No where did Apple say 'Retina is the max a human eye can see'.
 
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H3LL5P4WN said:
I don't quite understand. Does this mean my 7 Plus is actually 1242x2208, not 1080x1920?
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iEyes, coming Fall 20/20.
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Yes it's 1242x2208 squished into 1080x1920. If it were not squished at all, your home screen icons would be 50% bigger than on other iPhones (and your screen would be a lot larger), but they're not. They're more like 10% bigger. If you take a screenshot and look at the image info, it should be 1242x2208.

This "squishing" is also why there have long been complaints about the iPhone 6 plus performance. This resizing from 1242x2208 into 1080x1920 is done by software and requires a good bit of CPU performance which the 6 plus didn't have enough of. The 6S plus and 7 plus have more than enough power to deal with this.
 
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Here is what I don't get. I keep seeing MacRumors cite their own website hits to suggest the development of a given iOS version and hardware generation. Why wouldn't Apple at least try to block access to prevent any leaks via this method? iOS dev I ca sort of understand. You need it in the wild and a lot of that traffic is probably App devs. But phone hardware? No need for open access there.
 
macduke said:
A taller display, you say? I'll just leave this here. Gotta love MacRumors memes from 2012 and the iPhone 5 days!

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LOL! Well played!

The retina and pixels measurements always throw me off, but I very much appreciate reading about the Image Size and Resolution documentation at the Apple Developer's site. My inner amateur designer is smiling.
 
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ry-guy said:
Yeah, why would someone at Apple testing/using the new phone think "Hmm, I should browse on all these Apple rumor sites with this new Iphone just to test it out". Unless some employees are purposely trying to hint at products or just messing with people, it seems kind of odd. I feel like the execs would tell you to purposely stay away from any of these sites, no?
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No.
They do it all the time. Every new OS. Every new device.
 
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