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iOS 6 Automatically Scales to Fit Taller 1136x640 iPhone Display

retinarob said:
Some of you need to go to AA (Apple Anonymous). You're chasing that original high of setting up your first iPhone. It's just gonna be a buzz now, considering we've been analyzing leaked parts for months!
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Oh, man, I know what you mean. I remember the time I did my first iPhone. Wow! What a rush! It felt so good I thought I'd never need another phone, ever.

But eventually I came down from that and slowly but surely started craving more iPhone. The 3G came along, the 3GS, then the iPhone 4 came and man I just had to have them all! They still felt amazing, but somehow no matter how many iPhones I had, it never quite matched that amazing first experience.

And now days it, seems I need to have iPhone more and more often. It's like I need a new iPhone every year just to get by! And no matter how many iPhones I get, and how big and fast and beautiful they are, they're never going to quite live up to that special first time.

Sigh.
 
I have so many apps now that it's recently really started to bug me how few icons I can fit on the homescreen. A slightly taller screen would be lovely.
 
the 960x640 resolution was pretty great for its time, but if Apple can't pull together the hardware for it run 720p native res, that's sad. This is shaping up to be the most disappointing iPhone launch yet.

And yet it will sell in droves :cool:
 
There are two aspects of all this speculation, that strike me as very odd, based on the mock-ups we're seeing.

1) Did J. Ive get involved in the design of this bizarre object at all ?

2) If all the rumors are wrong, then why are they so frequent and consistent?

Based on the various opinions on the forum, if indeed this long ugly stick is the new model, it will disappoint more Apple loyalists than ever before.

Only time will tell.
 
nutmac said:
For one thing, JavaScript on Chrome is much slower.
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Yeah, and I don't like some of the aspects of Chrome. The super-minimal UI is just annoying, and it doesn't integrate as well with Mac OS or iOS. And the latest Safari for Windows is a copy of it, sadly.
 
bb426 said:
If you look at past iPhone design criticisms on MR, you'll notice the attitude is pretty close to yours, and eventually, it'll change directions radically. Something about the next iPhone will rock your socks and make you change your mind.
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Finally someone else understands. Thank you sir.
People on MacRumors always b**** about the next iPhone then suddenly love it.
 
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Fresh Pie said:
So that people can multitask by mistake while playing a game? It's an easy fix but not a very elegant one at all. Then again, elegance hasn't been Apple's objective lately based on the iPhone leaks. I really hope they prove me wrong in September.
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If you are too afraid of that, how about just leaving part of the screen black? Don't try to make it not work if there is enough options making it work. :cool:
 
iEnvy said:
Finally someone else understands. Thank you sir.
People on MacRumors always b**** about the next iPhone then suddenly love it.
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I love iOS and would much rather stay with it, but the dinky screen in my 4S is just too pathetic, and stretching it a bit taller isn't going to cut it. I don't care if siri on the next iPhone can read my mind and obey my thoughts, if this is the screen we get, I'm leaving the platform.
 
Great design isn't about constant, radically shifts - it's about refinement. I think, when this new phone arrives, the thing that will surprise people the most is how natural it feels. The screen is not radically lager, nor is the phone radically longer. It's a subtle change that will refresh the design. Just wait and see.
 
Oracle1729 said:
I love iOS and would much rather stay with it, but the dinky screen in my 4S is just too pathetic, and stretching it a bit taller isn't going to cut it. I don't care if siri on the next iPhone can read my mind and obey my thoughts, if this is the screen we get, I'm leaving the platform.
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Cool story, bro!
 
cwwilson said:
the 960x640 resolution was pretty great for its time, but if Apple can't pull together the hardware for it run 720p native res, that's sad. This is shaping up to be the most disappointing iPhone launch yet.

And yet it will sell in droves :cool:
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What's 720p going to do for you when you can't actually see the difference? Most Xbox 360 games get away with displaying 640p on a TV and nobody knows the difference.

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Nocaster said:
Actually, it happened every year.

This is from one year ago (almost to the day):

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/10/this-could-be-what-apples-iphone-5-looks-like/

We were still calling that the iPhone 5. I don't recall my 4s coming with a tapered aluminum design, elongated home screen and near edge-to-edge screen.

...unless I'm the victim of some elaborate hoax.
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It certainly didn't happen with the iPhone 4. And the 4S wasn't even a redesign so we knew what it looked like, many just expected something different.
 
Iconoclysm said:
What's 720p going to do for you when you can't actually see the difference? Most Xbox 360 games get away with displaying 640p on a TV and nobody knows the difference.
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The Xbox 360 was released in 2005. It's 2012 now. Apple dropping the ball if their new iPhone 4SL really is 640p resolution.
 
No still don't believe it could be possible for apple to make such an error in judgement and make their next phone anything other than 3:2.

Considering how little video 99% of iphone owners watch, to set the screen to a 16:9 aspect is just stupidity. If you use a laptop with 16:9 you know it's not useful at all as an aspect ratio it is so bad.

TVs are for movies only and even still I prefer movies in 16:10 much more like the current Mac Book screens.

I won't buy an iphone with a 16:9 and I am hardcore apple, there is nothing in this world that would make me consider it.

I still don't think the leaks are legit, apple would have locked them down otherwise.
 
lazard said:
The Xbox 360 was released in 2005. It's 2012 now. Apple dropping the ball if their new iPhone 4SL really is 640p resolution.
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The Xbox 360 is a video game console, hooked up to a giant screen, and 640p is unnoticeable there. Dropping the ball on 720p when you can't tell the difference on that screen is a ball I don't give a crap about dropping. This truly is about PPI, retina marketing language or not. You need to get realistic, there's no point in that resolution at this screen size - and no competitor is capable of this pixel density yet, either....so who is actually dropping the ball? It's been 2 years for someone to catch up.

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alexgowers said:
No still don't believe it could be possible for apple to make such an error in judgement and make their next phone anything other than 3:2.

Considering how little video 99% of iphone owners watch, to set the screen to a 16:9 aspect is just stupidity. If you use a laptop with 16:9 you know it's not useful at all as an aspect ratio it is so bad.

TVs are for movies only and even still I prefer movies in 16:10 much more like the current Mac Book screens.

I won't buy an iphone with a 16:9 and I am hardcore apple, there is nothing in this world that would make me consider it.

I still don't think the leaks are legit, apple would have locked them down otherwise.
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It's happening. Really can't understand why it would bother anyone - have you tried using a 4.3" phone before? The width just plain sucks.
 
URFloorMatt said:
Meh. I can understand why the iPad is 4:3. The iPhone being 3:2 instead of 16:9 is a reflection of it being first released in 2007. Time to get with the times. 16:9 is the best ratio.
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Exactly.

The other guys have been making 4" 16:9 screens for years. Time for Apple to catch up in that regard.

Once they establish 16:9 in the iPhone... in a couple years Apple might move to a 4.3" screen or bigger.

I think people forget that Apple never rushes into anything.

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Mad-B-One said:
If you are too afraid of that, how about just leaving part of the screen black? Don't try to make it not work if there is enough options making it work. :cool:
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Because I have no control over how Apple chooses to deal with this problem. Besides, whatever Apple decides to do with the extra space is irrelevant; it isn't going to make it any easier for developers to stretch their artwork and recode their apps.
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chleuasme said:
Wrong, the benefit is not better than with a 4" 3:2 screen in Portrait.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=15410765#post15410765

And many people use their iPhone in landscape, and would even more especially if the width grow. And a 16:9 4" screen in this case is not adding substantial value.
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Yes your 3:2 configuration would be nice if ready text was the only constraint that Apple faces but they've got this thing called Made For iPhone/iPod/iPad (MFI) program. There are thousands of docks that are built around the width of the iPhone. Adding a new dock connector can be worked around but adding width is going to obsolete existing docks.

Eventually Airplay and Bluetooth will make the need for a dock unnecessary and Apple can then work on altering more than just the height.
 
tbrinkma said:
I assume that was supposed to be 480x800? If so, then it would have taken farther-than-iPad typical distances to hit 'retina' for those displays. That's only about 230ppi (which was typical for a 'high-res' phone display at the time), compared to the iPad's 264ppi or the iPhone's 326ppi.

The iPad's 'retina' distance is about 16 inches, so that 3.7" 480x800 display's retina distance is about 18.3 inches. The iPhone's retina distance was 11 inches, so that's *significantly* more than 2 inches difference. (It's actually closer to *double* than 2 inches.)
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That's probably right, I was too lazy to actually do the math on that one. I must have mixed up some pixel densities.

and yes, I mean 480*800. (would be kind of cool to have a 300 PPI 480*80 (6:1 =) ) [www.xkcd.com/541/] display on a phone though
 
Michael Scrip said:
Exactly.

The other guys have been making 4" 16:9 screens for years. Time for Apple to catch up in that regard.

Once they establish 16:9 in the iPhone... in a couple years Apple might move to a 4.3" screen or bigger.

I think people forget that Apple never rushes into anything.

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If Apple can find a way to make a 4.3" screen that is still as easy to use with one hand, they'll do it.
 
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