What I would like to see, is instead of the camera bump, why not have the lenses flush with the back of the casing (so the top of the phone is still thicker) but then instead of keeping the body of the phone a cuboid shape, after where the camera modules would end the phone then tapers at an angle down to its thinnest point at the bottom, so from a side profile it’s a 5 sided shape.
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iPhone 17 Pro: Here's What It Could Look Like
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I'd be all over a silver color like in the render. That looks amazing.
I‘m not feeling it. At all. The stove top camera array introduced with the 11 Pro looks simple yet very premium and recognizable as an iPhone. The design in the renders reminds me of generic Android phones where the camera bump looks cheaply tacked on. I doubt Apple will present something meh like this.
They should just extend the “bump” across the entire back, making the phone slightly thicker so they can add a bigger battery.
Don't worry Tim Cook will come up with a way to tell people how great this design is and how it'll benefit them.
Apple is Toyota in the tech world, with minimal changes every year, and people will still buy it.
Apple is Toyota in the tech world, with minimal changes every year, and people will still buy it.
Ugh I was hoping they will change it so the phone will be stable when on the desk. It's so annoying that it's rattling around when pressed in this position.
Looks like a Xiaomi phone.. thanks but not thanks.
If this is the future of the iPhones (also the copy to Pixel 9 design) I'm out.
If this is the future of the iPhones (also the copy to Pixel 9 design) I'm out.
This has been happening for a while with those cheap Chinese phone brands and it makes me cringe. Crappy camera but a whole lot of plastic to make it seem like that camera is better than it is. A lot of my family back in Mexico are using those
Cannot believe Apple is doing it now.Prosser made up the Apple VR headset, even claiming there would be a Steve Jobs edition with round lenses. It’s so preposterous and yet media including this one repeated it, so much that for a long time we had to cope with reading “Apple Glass” as if the name even made sense.
He is lying.
Also am I the only one with eyes here? This job is so sloppy that the black camera section isn’t even centered!
He is lying.
Also am I the only one with eyes here? This job is so sloppy that the black camera section isn’t even centered!
Jobs wasn’t always right but he was able to select magic for Apple devices and never disappointed. Apple devices are now better than ever but they lack some ingenuity and fun sometimes. The new Invites app is a good example of Apple still doing fine stuffWe went from what Steve would have done to what Jony would have done...
I guess it's progress in a way
This design, if real, screams for a fourth camera to a) make them symmetrical and b) fill the huge focal length gap between 1x and 5x. Bring back the 3x camera and you have most all foto ops covered.
That’s just hideous. Looks like the iPhone 16pro camera bump crossed with an electric stove top.
Ugh… can they not at least make the lenses flush with the bump?
I completely agree.
I still have my old 4s in a drawer (it's functionally dead) but I take it out every now and then just to admire how precise and compact it was.
Also have my old 6s, which still technically works, but it's in the same drawer. I remember when it came out the camera sticking out slightly bugged me; now I hold it and it is so slim and sleep and just beautiful to hold.
iPhones have gotten so chunky and inelegant. My 15 Pro feels fine until I hold my old 6s, and then it actually feels like less-advanced hardware than that 11 (!) year old phone.
I'm not asking for smaller phones, as that ship has sailed, but I am asking for a svelte device that feels compact and comfortable to hold. My 15 Pro is legit slightly uncomfortable to hold for long periods, because I've never used cases on my iPhones.
I'm personally excited about this "17 Air" because I want a sexy iPhone that feels good to hold again!
Seriously, if you have a 6 series phone somewhere, take it out and hold it. It makes the modern phones feel like bricks with ****** tolerances between the materials.
Prosser gets it wrong more often than the weather man. It amazes me that someone can get it wrong so often and still be considered relevant.
Smart phones have become commoditized like toasters or tires.
Sure, some tires are better than others. There are dollar store toasters, and high end toasters you buy at Williams-Sonoma. It still just makes. Toast.
You can buy Nexen tires or you can buy Michelin’s. It’s still a tire.
I’m a Michelin guy myself, I think cheap things end up being expensive in the long run, but it still is just a different flavor of “stuff”.
I see less and less reason to update my phone every year as I have in the past. Apple intelligence isn’t all that, and the cameras have kinda gotten as good as they need to be.
Smart phones have become commoditized like toasters or tires.
Sure, some tires are better than others. There are dollar store toasters, and high end toasters you buy at Williams-Sonoma. It still just makes. Toast.
You can buy Nexen tires or you can buy Michelin’s. It’s still a tire.
I’m a Michelin guy myself, I think cheap things end up being expensive in the long run, but it still is just a different flavor of “stuff”.
I see less and less reason to update my phone every year as I have in the past. Apple intelligence isn’t all that, and the cameras have kinda gotten as good as they need to be.
So basically an Apple Pixel?
Tbh, I'd rather have that if this turns out to be true as the lens are at least flush with the bar, not this weird disaster with the lens poking above the bar!
Only if the lenses aren't going to protrude past the bar and you end up with wobble again.
