Apple needed a “refresh” because they have been rehashing the same design since 2019. I know those iPhone designers are bored out of their minds. The engineers and designers want to be creative but top management is like noooo, people will buy it regardless and we need to save money. Tell them the new phone has AI features that won’t be available until next year.
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iPhone 17 Pro: Here's What It Could Look Like
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I’m sure Apple, and all of the other major smartphone manufacturers, have had that idea. The fact that all flagship phones have bumps/lenses that aren’t flush is probably a pretty good indicator that doing so makes the phone to heavy/unwieldy.
Things I like:
- Black logo (reminds me of the 1st iPhone)
- Double color back (also because it reminds me of the 1st iPhone)
What I don't like? Pretty much everything else.
But especially the amount of different widths:
1. the phone
2. the camera bump (which is quite big)
3. the camera lenses (another bump).
A flat black bar with the lens flush I could understand. But like this? No thank you.
I also wonder how magsafe works with such a huge camera bump. Will the "puck" fit in the little space there is left below the bump and to the edge of the phone?
Also: covers will have to be a feat of engineering with such a big cutout. They will have to avoid all sorts of bending in the "strip of cover" that runs above the black bump (especially because there's screen on the other side). Whereas a cover "covering" the black bar will have to have all sorts of cutouts for flash, lidar and cameras and/or 2 cutouts on both sides making it UGLY with a bar running in the middle and also adding the thickness of the cover to the black bar, making the whole phone even bigger.
A flush to body differently colored bar I can understand, but this?
- Black logo (reminds me of the 1st iPhone)
- Double color back (also because it reminds me of the 1st iPhone)
What I don't like? Pretty much everything else.
But especially the amount of different widths:
1. the phone
2. the camera bump (which is quite big)
3. the camera lenses (another bump).
A flat black bar with the lens flush I could understand. But like this? No thank you.
I also wonder how magsafe works with such a huge camera bump. Will the "puck" fit in the little space there is left below the bump and to the edge of the phone?
Also: covers will have to be a feat of engineering with such a big cutout. They will have to avoid all sorts of bending in the "strip of cover" that runs above the black bump (especially because there's screen on the other side). Whereas a cover "covering" the black bar will have to have all sorts of cutouts for flash, lidar and cameras and/or 2 cutouts on both sides making it UGLY with a bar running in the middle and also adding the thickness of the cover to the black bar, making the whole phone even bigger.
A flush to body differently colored bar I can understand, but this?
I’m sure if they give this a clean silver color option, creating the same contrast like the keyboard on current MBPs, most complaints will vanish.
I wish we could get an iPhone without camera bump at all...
I don't mind the new design. It's a nice change from the same camera bump we have had since 2019 with the iPhone 11. I am sure it will look better in person or in the final build for those worried. Besides, it's not like anything it's gonna change anything. Those that upgrade yearly will still go and get it. Folks like me that upgrade every other year or so will as well. I am on iPhone 15 pro max so I will be due for an upgrade come September.
I'm very skeptical of this rumor. I DO think we're going to see a camera bar, but I have very low confidence that it would look like this. It simply makes no sense to add a camera bar AND keep the lenses in the same triangle orientation. The whole point of the camera bar is so that lenses have room to be spaced out.
Plus it doesn't seem like we're seeing any confirmation of this particular gigantic camera bar design leak from any other sources.
Plus it doesn't seem like we're seeing any confirmation of this particular gigantic camera bar design leak from any other sources.
At least with the iPhone, it feels like Apple is moving further and further away from making “sexy” hardware in favor of… I’m not really sure.
Remember when the iPhone 4 came out? Or the 6? Or the X? One look at those made people open their wallet before the phone was even powered up.
Perhaps the market has just matured and there is limited innovation remaining in the current form factor, which kind of explains the investment into foldables and AR eyewear.
Remember when the iPhone 4 came out? Or the 6? Or the X? One look at those made people open their wallet before the phone was even powered up.
Perhaps the market has just matured and there is limited innovation remaining in the current form factor, which kind of explains the investment into foldables and AR eyewear.
I get it, this is just a "rumored" design, so it's definitely grist for this particular mill.
I've been holding onto my current iPhone 14 Pro, waiting to see what's next... so if this rendering were to become reality, I'll most definitely upgrade to a... 16 Pro, rather than this nasty-looking obnoxiousness.
I've been holding onto my current iPhone 14 Pro, waiting to see what's next... so if this rendering were to become reality, I'll most definitely upgrade to a... 16 Pro, rather than this nasty-looking obnoxiousness.
Apple makes a phone with a camera bump.
Public: We hate the camera bump.
Apple makes it bigger.
Public: We hate it more
Apple: We don’t know what the public wants, let’s try making it humongous and taller. .
Public: We hate the camera bump.
Apple makes it bigger.
Public: We hate it more
Apple: We don’t know what the public wants, let’s try making it humongous and taller. .
At this point, to me, anything new will be welcomed. The iPhone's design has be stagnant for years.
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I am not someone who upgrades because of the luck of a phone, but that looks a lot like a Google Pixel which is surprising from Apple. I have a 16 Pro Max though so there won't be a need in the next few years to upgrade anyway.
the current iPhone design is already worse (the last one I didn't mind was the 11 Pro), and this "leak" doesn't look any better.Can't be worse than this:
at this point, having a dedicated model for these extra cameras (like the Galaxy S4 Zoom) would make more sense to me. every iPhone user in my family thinks these cameras are overkill, and none of them like the design.