Like how they removed the 3.5mm headphone jack? Damn that was so amazing...
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HomePod Firmware Suggests iPhone 8 Split Status Bar, Tap to Wake and No Touch ID Under Display
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Like how they removed the 3.5mm headphone jack? Damn that was so amazing...
The leaks suggest the lock button is growing in size, to about the same size as the two volume buttons combined. No reason it couldn't be integrated there.
1. You’ll probably have both.
2. It’ll be like on the s8 just force push it at anytime to return home. Works really well in my opinion.
It was actually, it made me move away from those stupid wires. Moving to Bluetooth headphones was a needed decision.
That may be so, but the point is that it was not even beta-worthy when it was released. Neither was Siri. Let's not kid ourselves with statements like "Apple wouldn't release an unfinished product".
Wow, so apple just slaps a OLED
display on the phone and charges you $1000... and you're absolutely fine with that?
If I was Apple I could have charged you $500 for iCondoms with Apple logo...
For now I just hope the leaked rear touchID iPhones are real.
Clearly you've not used an OLED screen to see how major the difference is compared to LCD.....
Its the screen size I care about without making the phone a phablet. I don't like plus size phones so the shrunk bezels is best change ever made to the iPhone.
Shrunk bezels with an OLED screen running iOS thats the dream phone to me!
Thats the direction I want my phone to go in. Why would i care about Touch ID? I was using iPhones before Touch ID existed and I'm someone who usually doesnt like having any passcode on but have to now for Apple Pay.
If Touch ID is the major feature of the iPhone to you then haha good luck with that lool I couldnt care less about my fingerprint being registered to open my phone.
I really hope you can tap or force touch the top left corner to change signal strength to the current time and vice versa. 99.9% of the time I don't need network information.
On TouchID, don't worry... they'll include a TouchID dongle in the box!
On TouchID, don't worry... they'll include a TouchID dongle in the box!
Unless the iPhone is to become as thick as an average human finger how will the Touch ID technology on the volume buttons work?
Can’t disagree more you listed one thing that this phone is supposed to have. Add on top better stereo speakers, better higher res display(more PPI), maybe promotion, better battery(7plus battery in a smaller frame), Facial recognition that’s actually secure, wireless charging better camera with better features. Sounds to me like you want this to be a bad release. If all this comes to past I’ll be ready cash in hand.
"there" being the lock button rather than the volume button.
but also, why does it need to be thicker than currently? the "iphone" shape of the home button is what defines it as being a circle, not the technology for touch id. i just unlocked my phone by touching only half of the home button; it could easily work on the length of the lock button.
My point was that Ming Kuo predicted this a month ago that touch ID would not be on the iPhone 8. That's why I used him as a reference as a comparison.
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This is another misconception, people thinking TouchID will come back in the future. Once Apple removes a feature it's DEAD to them.
Per another article by Bloomberg(another highly reputable source) it’s not going to be like Touch ID where it waits for you to interact with it. It’s going to pre authenticate your face so by the time you lift it from your pocket to look at it it should be done. And supposedly it’s going to be wide enough to see you on a desk. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-test-3-d-face-scanning-to-unlock-next-iphone
You're about the hundredth person to ask that so again:
3D Facial recognition or, and this is from Apple themselves:
"Every transaction on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac requires you to authenticate with Touch ID or your passcode"
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201469
TouchID is not required for ApplePay
TouchID is just a more convenient way to unlock the phone, there is denial on that. I know how good OLED looks (I have a LG OLED), but that's 55 inch. There is now way a bezelless 5.8 inch OLED iPhone justifies a price tag which is 2/3 of my TV.
I'm pretty much in the same boat, I do like the smaller iPhone with larger screen, but $1000, hell no!!!
Actually $1000 is affordable in the USA, but you have to realize that in EU and other parts of the world this equals €1300 = $1500...
Apple Maps really isn't a fair comparison. Apple itself has made internal changes over the years and evolved as a company. We're talking about a piece of hardware the Apple releases on an annual basis and Overall it's Time to move on from something that has completely come full circle. Furthermore, Facial recognition it's still undefined what it potentially can offer.
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Chinese mobile phone company Vivo already have a fingerprint scanner which works under glass or even metal.
And there rumours the Samsung Note 8 will include an under display sensor, which will be announced before the iPhone. So we will wait and see.
No right now when you wake your device with raise to wake while your finger is on Touch ID it doesn’t skip your lock screen it just unlocks the phone then you have to press Touch ID to get into the phone(unless you have the other option on, not sure what it’s called when you can unlock just by having your finger on Touch ID) Face ID will work the same. By the time you raise to wake your phone it will authenticate and you have to actually press the virtual home button to get into your phone.
The annoying thing with them rushing out the new iPhone before they've got under-screen TouchID working is it means TouchID is never coming back, it's a victim to their engineering problems. Apple won't "go backwards" as it'd effectively be admitting to having released an unfinished product and that the face sensor was a compromise instead of a progressive decision. It has to be seen as "courage" or whatever and "you don't need that silly old system where you have to go to the effort of lifting a finger"
I don't like the idea - would rather it unlocks when I take a positive action like putting my finger on it, not when I happen to look at it, and presumably only if you look at it in exactly the right way. Currently, can see myself keeping the iPhone SE going as long as possible - if only for the sake of the Apple Watch - and then eventually seeing if there's been any progress on making Android work as nicely (manufacturer-independent updates, a backup system without compromises, etc) as sadly Apple seem to have lost the plot.
What do you do if you have a burqa? I know it's a controversial thing but Apple are known for leftie kind of views which would tend to be against discriminating against religious groups.
I don't like the idea - would rather it unlocks when I take a positive action like putting my finger on it, not when I happen to look at it, and presumably only if you look at it in exactly the right way. Currently, can see myself keeping the iPhone SE going as long as possible - if only for the sake of the Apple Watch - and then eventually seeing if there's been any progress on making Android work as nicely (manufacturer-independent updates, a backup system without compromises, etc) as sadly Apple seem to have lost the plot.
What do you do if you have a burqa? I know it's a controversial thing but Apple are known for leftie kind of views which would tend to be against discriminating against religious groups.