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iPhone 16 Early Prototypes: What Apple's Next-Generation iPhone Will Look Like
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Maybe they're saving that for the iPhone 20. I'm not sure what else they can really change to the standard candy bar style phone. It's been perfected for years now. I'm not sure if a folding iPhone is the answer, or an external display interface, AI throughout the system, or something else they can
Once the innovation stops, the competitors will leapfrog them coming out with more interesting and innovative products. I'm not surprised the iPhone 16 is more or less the same as the last six releases. People are still going to buy millions of them.
Once sales start dropping like the old Intel Macs (and apparently the ARM Macs now), I'd hope to see some big advancement in the tech.
Edit: Looking at those prototype images. They really like to recycle designs every few years. Never been a big fan of the iPhone X camera pill, but there it is again.
When is the Apple flip phone going to be released? Now that would be on my shopping list.
From someone who has used plenty of Sony phones over the years, that capture button is far from useless.
Honestly I wish they'd stop trying to make out that the camera bump, a feature that is either covered by a case or otherwise makes your phone wobble around on a table is a design feature. 99% of the time you're looking away from it because its on the arse-end.
Honestly I'd prefer a thicker phone with a bigger battery and flush cameras. It can be done. The Huawei P30 Pro had a prismatic zoom in 2019 and that was only 8mm thick. Apple supposedly have the best hardware engineers on the planet; lets see them in action.
Honestly I'd prefer a thicker phone with a bigger battery and flush cameras. It can be done. The Huawei P30 Pro had a prismatic zoom in 2019 and that was only 8mm thick. Apple supposedly have the best hardware engineers on the planet; lets see them in action.
Amen. I really want a largely flush design back again.
They need to keep changing this though so it's visible to others that you have a new iPhone.
what is old, then new, then old is new again!
Honestly, if Samsung adds a wider outside screen to the Fold 6 next year, I am very tempted to try something else. I'll still have my 15 Plus for my iOS needs
Honestly, if Samsung adds a wider outside screen to the Fold 6 next year, I am very tempted to try something else. I'll still have my 15 Plus for my iOS needs
Shouldn't the title of the article be "could" look like and not "will" look like...
Same design (except for the pill), same color, same, same, same. Gotta start digging myself out of this Apple Ecosystem and make a move to Android.
Considering the iPhone 12 went pretty much back to the design of the iPhone 5, we are still waiting for this alleged 'leap frogging'. It hasn’t happened and other than sticking 2 phones side by side and calling it a foldable, there has been no innovation, rather than 'improvements'.
There is no leap frogging and almost all innovation appears to be from Apple. Nothing phone even wanted to call their new phone 'titanium' so they included titanium screws 😂. Competitors phones are only keeping up with Apple, at best.
It's weird how they seem to revisit older concepts and call it an innovation. Over the years we went from round edges -> square edges -> round edges -> square edges -> round edges and they always call it a big improvement. Now it seems we will go back to the iPhone X pill camera aesthetic
God I just want them to figure out the camera bump already. So absurd that it still sticks out that far. I'd even buy an option with a very basic camera to have uniformity on all sides.
Imagine buying anything Tesla makes. Every one of their products is a shoddy mess.
I was expecting a single camera once they switch to a periscope lens, I mean it would cover all zoom levels.
To be fair to Apple, where could they go? The phone form factor is now a settled debate. Nobody moans that Macbooks look mostly the same every year. Foldables are an effort to something but they don't really solve more problems than they create.
Spot-on. No one here has yet been able to articulate in detail what that would be, why the market would embrace it in the volumes Apple expects, and at a price consumers would accept.
Apple is doing extremely well giving the 600,000+ people (who purchase an iPhone every day of the year, on the average) what they want. Apple listens to the people who count.