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If you think the leaked iPhone 4 doesn't fit Apple's design standards...
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That's just not true. Here is what the 3G to 3GS gave you.
Compass for GPS and Google Maps
Olegophobic Coating
Better Camera
Video Camera
Better Battery
Better Processor
Better RAM
More Storage
I would say that the upgrade from 3G to 3GS is pretty comparable to the upgrade from 3GS to 4G.
I'm not sure Apple is that bothered about upsetting people by putting out superior elements in other models very shortly afterwards. The iPad buyers on these boards are pretty upset they got a half finished OS and the iPhone update is coming several months before theirs, but Apple are doing it regardless.
With the increased resolution of the 3G, I'm inclined to say the thing desperately *needs* more RAM. Heck, the 3GS needed more RAM. I guess it'll all come down to costs in the end.
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I think the *3GS* does not match Apple's design standards.
The heavy use of plastic and the chrome trim just does not fit into the clean Glass + Aluminum look. Shared by the iPad, MacBook Pro, Air, iMac and so on.
The 4th Gen look is a much more natural fit.
C.
The heavy use of plastic and the chrome trim just does not fit into the clean Glass + Aluminum look. Shared by the iPad, MacBook Pro, Air, iMac and so on.
The 4th Gen look is a much more natural fit.
C.
I totally agree with you. the only thing that I think apple could improve are the rounded volume button. I think that a single black button à la iPad would be the right choice... those ones look too fat and poor.
Anyway that's a small flaw compared to the great work that apple does with this phone. It looks so Braun-ish! It feel so solid even simply looking at it! and finally apple get rid of cheap plastic design (remember guys, now the back is made of some kind of glass!) and of the chromed bezel (that is related to the ipod line and shouldn't be on the iphone!)
Anyway that's a small flaw compared to the great work that apple does with this phone. It looks so Braun-ish! It feel so solid even simply looking at it! and finally apple get rid of cheap plastic design (remember guys, now the back is made of some kind of glass!) and of the chromed bezel (that is related to the ipod line and shouldn't be on the iphone!)
If you search around you can find a close-up of the rounded volume buttons.
They have a microscopic bevel. Perhaps an 10th of a mm around the top. Like something in a high-end wrist-watch.
When I saw that, I became a fan.
C.
I agree the beveling suggests a high degree of engineering precision - but it neglects usability. It's the sort of detail a mechanical engineer would automatically add, but a usability engineer would immediately remove, since it makes the buttons harder to locate by feel alone. The side buttons on the current gen iPhone and iPad deliberately have 'sharp' edges to provide tactile feedback to a distracted user. Go on, feel them.
It suggests to me this isn't a fully refined design - more a engineering prototype, perhaps?
Having owned Apple products for a long time, Apple has ALWAYS been concerned about appearance.
They want their products to have a theme. The current model iPhone has a theme in that it is a truly unique looking phone. I don't have to do much to notice when someone is using an iPhone.
That being said, if the 4G is as Gizmodo found - to me that iPhone adopts a theme as well. That theme is the same as the iMac, the MacBook Pro, and even the iPad. The unibody construction design is very iconic for Apple products right now.
They want their products to have a theme. The current model iPhone has a theme in that it is a truly unique looking phone. I don't have to do much to notice when someone is using an iPhone.
That being said, if the 4G is as Gizmodo found - to me that iPhone adopts a theme as well. That theme is the same as the iMac, the MacBook Pro, and even the iPad. The unibody construction design is very iconic for Apple products right now.
same here. if it looks like it can be easily confused with an inferior brand, even if it's a better phone, i simply wont buy it. personally i wanted something even more unique so everyone can see that my phone isn't just any phone, its an iphone. this is what is most important to me because inanimate objects make me feel better about myself. i want to be able to look down on other people with "lesser phones" without them looking back at me and thinking "well he's only got an [insert anything other than apple here] phone". they should be able to see it is an iphone and instantly feel inferior and poor compared to me and my iphone
You'd fit right in as an Uptown Dallas douchebag.
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2007-11-29/news/douchebags-in-the-mist/
Your sarcasm detector fails you...
Hahaha....read the first couple of lines and determined it wasn't a post I cared to finish.
Sad thing is, too many people really are that way...admit it or not.
According to Gizmodo a lot of engineering constraints influence the design of the prototype.
The inside components are so tightly packed, utilizing every space, that tapering the back of the shell would be impossible this time. If that's the case, they should have made the center of the back thicker, so they could have had the space to round it off. I would sacrifice a little thinness to achieve a more iMac look with a gracefully rounded back. It would have looked like a previous gen iMac with a glass on black front and a rounded black shell on the back.
Of course, it would have been more aesthetically pleasing if it looked more like a mini iPad with an aluminum rounded back, but you wouldn't have gotten any reception with all that metal.
I'm sure Ive was fighting with the engineers the whole time about making the back round but I guess they have a thinness envelope that takes precedence over aesthetics.
The inside components are so tightly packed, utilizing every space, that tapering the back of the shell would be impossible this time. If that's the case, they should have made the center of the back thicker, so they could have had the space to round it off. I would sacrifice a little thinness to achieve a more iMac look with a gracefully rounded back. It would have looked like a previous gen iMac with a glass on black front and a rounded black shell on the back.
Of course, it would have been more aesthetically pleasing if it looked more like a mini iPad with an aluminum rounded back, but you wouldn't have gotten any reception with all that metal.
I'm sure Ive was fighting with the engineers the whole time about making the back round but I guess they have a thinness envelope that takes precedence over aesthetics.
Hopefully it is the final design, as then it means I won't have to upgrade from the 3GS, as the new design looks like a cheap old SE phone to me.
Means I can spend my money on something else!!
Good, ill take your 4g for you
According to Gizmodo a lot of engineering constraints influence the design of the prototype.
The inside components are so tightly packed, utilizing every space, that tapering the back of the shell would be impossible this time. If that's the case, they should have made the center of the back thicker, so they could have had the space to round it off. I would sacrifice a little thinness to achieve a more iMac look with a gracefully rounded back. It would have looked like a previous gen iMac with a glass on black front and a rounded black shell on the back.
Of course, it would have been more aesthetically pleasing if it looked more like a mini iPad with an aluminum rounded back, but you wouldn't have gotten any reception with all that metal.
I'm sure Ive was fighting with the engineers the whole time about making the back round but I guess they have a thinness envelope that takes precedence over aesthetics.
The rounded back is a trick. It allows the phone to have a large volume, but maintain thin edges - which lets the device slip into a pocket easily. No so much rounded, more pregnant with a battery.
This phone does not need thin edges - because the whole device is thin to begin with. It's 9mm! (.37inches) vs. 12mm for the old pregnant phone shape.
If I am right, they have succeeded in making a device which is both 25% thinner and yet has a 40% longer battery life.
C.
That is a pretty misleading statement. Typically all RAM is made to be more-or-less equal with some obvious (or not) exceptions. However, the 3GS' processor has to work and operate independently of the RAM increasing the I/O timing/lag. The iPad uses the Apple A4 integrated graphics and processing chip that appears to reduce I/O lag seemingly pretty significantly. When you consider that the ipad's screen is several times larger with more ability for content creation and performance playback (games and movies), the fact that it doubled the speed (from twitter dev Craig Hockenberry) is pretty significant. It also handles 64-bit chunks of data whereas the 3GS must only run 32-bit chunks. This means more data allowed in comparable sized I/O transactions.