I'll be getting the iPhone 8, but I am not sure how I feel about losing screen space.
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Alright then, I stand corrected. So then they are just messing with us!
The impression I got from the interview with Craig Federighi is they try to keep stuff like this under wraps because it actually hurts their product reveals. Maybe it's the same person and they don't know about it.....anyway, carry on.
If the parts aren't hi tech, then Apple shouldn't charge high prices
Don't know how I feel about an "Active Area". Makes it sound like the "Non-Active Area" at the bottom is reserved solely for TouchID, which if that's the case than what's the point of integrating it into the screen? There's still gonna be a chin at the bottom. I was hoping to be able to use the ENTIRE screen for apps and videos...
I'll wait a lil down the line before taking any more rumors seriously.
Maybe he simply got this 1242 px wrong? That is the resolution of the Plus iPhones, maybe that was the reason for this confusion. Or the 1242 px is again only a rendered resolution with a downscaling to 1125 px, similarly as to what is happening with the current Plus iPhones?
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Maybe somebody is using these phones as their normal phone and gets send a link to a MacRumors article by somebody not aware that the first person is using a prototype device?
And you'll still get an updated 5.5" Plus iPhone this year with most of the iPhone '8' goodies inside. And it wouldn't surprise me if Apple added a no-bezel version with the outer dimensions of the current 5.5" devices next year. The iPhone 8 has enough new stuff related to the screen that they might have wanted their focus on getting at least one size version out this year. Also, by only releasing one size of the new OLED iPhone this year, they can price it higher than the 4.7" iPhone without surpassing (too much) the current 5.5" iPhone prices. Then next year, the iPhone 8s Plus can take over that price spot.
It happens every year Lol. Clearly it isn't a big deal. The general public is not going to know or care about such uneventful rumors/news.
Does the web server sees 'only' the 1125 x 2436 number or is Safari also relaying the 2x or 3x factor from the device to the web server? Ie, how does the web server knows it is a retina device?
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The pocket wear has certainly been different. And to me (and I think many), the 4.7" iPhone is still very much a one-handed device.
We do though
[doublepost=1497642803][/doublepost]This is great news. The device's display is 6% more narrow. I always found the 4.7" iPhone slightly too wide, making it a little bit uncomfortable for one hand use. This should be a great help! Especially with the folding edges, very comfy.
As Crzyrio already said.
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Though Tim Cook has said earlier this year to the financial press that the current rumours about the next iPhone are already depressing iPhone sales a bit.
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Been thinking that myself all along. I am not looking forward to this "Function Area", I find it a complete waste of space. Why not just make 5.5 inches of the screen usable if they really do insist on having this wasted area. I do not want to downgrade to a smaller screen size.
If you are happy with the current Plus phone's physical size, you'll get a new 5.5" iPhone 7s Plus in September. If you prefer something with the physical size of the current 4.7" iPhones, you'll get an additional option of having 5.15" instead of 4.7" of active area.
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That's fine but I wasn't talking about "living with it" AFTER Apple has rolled something out. The conversation was about group group sentiment when stuff like that is still rumored. Prior to the launch of bigger-screened iPhones, this crowd made it sound like man purse & pants-maker stocks would explode and NO one-handed use would be possible... until they started believing Apple was really going to roll out bigger screens and then it transitioned into "wait & see"... and then Apple rolls out bigger-screen phones and all such negative sentiment seemed to evaporate: "shut up and take my money" and record sales. Never saw the man purse or specially-made pants with bigger pockets show up. And I'm practically certain all the "one-handed use" people didn't grow bigger hands (nor opt out of iPhone).
My point was that this crowd is quick to fault what Apple does not sell now... and rumors that differ much from what Apple has for sale now... until we start believing Apple might actually be about to roll it out as rumored... and then full-on flip flops when Apple actually announces what was previously put down to no end. This- if this is it- will be no different.
The problem is what other features are
they going to keep off the 7S Plus that are on the 8!
Well, maybe people really believed that most Android users with ~5" phones could not comfortably use them one-handed.
One argument from that time was that one reason why Android phones got bigger was that, all else equal, bigger phones have better battery life (the Plus iPhone has better battery life than the non-plus version) and that Android phones, all else equal, tended to have worse battery life than iPhones (where 'all else equal' can mean battery size, screen size, thickness, performance).
I think it is quite possibly that those arguments (one-handed use, battery life) were and are perfectly valid, but that how much weight one assigns to these arguments is very much coloured by ones own past decisions (eg, buying iPhones).
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That is the million dollar question. Certainly, some OLED-related features will fall into this bucket. Maybe the 3D sensing, including face recognition. Maybe wireless charging. What are your guesses in this area?
Because the rumors game is great marketing and helps to hype up the product?
All tech brands are doing this. There are legitimate leaks and "leaks" to push attention for an upcoming release.
Not saying that this has to be the case here, but it wouldn't be odd either.
Yeah but also suppresses current product sales since people hear rumors and wait.
I think 5.15" will be the 8, and Apple will either surprise us with, or in 2018 release, an iPhone 8 Plus
I think 5.15" will be the 8, and Apple will either surprise us with, or in 2018 release, an iPhone 8 Plus
There are already rumors of the iPhone 9 (8S?) floating around. If they are to be believed you will see AMOLED phones in about the same physical sizes as the Plus and SE models with 6.5" and 5.3" screen sizes in addition to the 5.8" model to be introduced this year.
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/23/iphone-9-rumored-display-sizes/
Somebody is testing these devices in normal usage scenarios. Keeping somebody beta-testing a device with real usage away from all tech websites isn't real use. And it isn't hard to imagine for MacRumors to contact other popular websites and ask if any of them would be willing to share some aspects of their device logs with them.
A 5.15-inch display area at an 1125 x 2436 ratio would actually be slightly narrower physically than the iPhone 7's display, so content would appear slightly smaller on the screen at around 174 points per inch rather than the 163 points per inch of the iPhone 7.)
That sounds sub-optimal... default text size is already pretty small on the 4.7" devices; smaller, I believe, than on the 4" or 5.5" devices. (I personally use a 5.5" phone in "Zoom" mode... and I have good eyesight.)