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iPhone 17 Pro: Here's What It Could Look Like
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In 2025 we have MacBook displays with a notch, a fantastic MacBook Air that isn't allowed to run macOS because they call it iPad Pro and a ridiculous iPhone Pro design still with a fat pill.
In case someone from Apple marketing department reads this (I don't care if you are just an intern - please get my message to Tim), I just wanted to say that I absolutely love this design and I wish they come up with the same aesthetic (silver aluminum / black glass / white plastic) for Apple Watch Ultra.
It's from an era when Apple products would complement each other (just like a white iMac could compliment a white iPod in the 00s). But since 2010 iPhone design seems to be all over the place. iPhone was like some rich spoiled kid who would put on a different persona every year trying to figure out who he really is. It tried to be Sony (iPhone 4), Oakley (iPhone 7 Jet Black), a piece of jewellery (iPhone 14 Pro), a kids toy (iPhone 5C). The kid who couldn't quite figure out how to wash his black clothes: they would either fall apart (iPhone 5 and 7 in plain Black) or loose color (50 shades of "Space" grey). Now this kid finally grew up, figured it all out and started to dress just like his dad.
So I guess this year they will make the iPhone Pro finally acknowledge it's moniker and fall in line with all the other products from the "Pro" category: silver and black / space black. Plus a couple of gypsy/girly/trendy colours like gold and "whatever the Pantone orb tells them to".
It's from an era when Apple products would complement each other (just like a white iMac could compliment a white iPod in the 00s). But since 2010 iPhone design seems to be all over the place. iPhone was like some rich spoiled kid who would put on a different persona every year trying to figure out who he really is. It tried to be Sony (iPhone 4), Oakley (iPhone 7 Jet Black), a piece of jewellery (iPhone 14 Pro), a kids toy (iPhone 5C). The kid who couldn't quite figure out how to wash his black clothes: they would either fall apart (iPhone 5 and 7 in plain Black) or loose color (50 shades of "Space" grey). Now this kid finally grew up, figured it all out and started to dress just like his dad.
So I guess this year they will make the iPhone Pro finally acknowledge it's moniker and fall in line with all the other products from the "Pro" category: silver and black / space black. Plus a couple of gypsy/girly/trendy colours like gold and "whatever the Pantone orb tells them to".
So basically the only iPhone designs you approve of are the first three which were only actually two designs- the original and the 3G/3GS.
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It would make sense to have a wider area for the cameras, but not in the way it’s currently rendered. I believe the wider area should be achieved by placing cameras on both ends to capture a wider field of view for spatial video. I’ve always felt that the cameras are too close together, which doesn’t accurately represent the distance between the eyes of actual humans. This lack of distance between the cameras prevents them from capturing a true field of depth for a 3D image or video. Placing the cameras further apart would make more sense.
So will the 48mp telephoto give it an extra zoom like the 48mp did for the main camera?