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I'll take function over form, plus how will anyone know you have the newest phone?
They won't know and they won't care. Most people cover their phone with a case, and are too busy to look up and see the other. "Oh, sorry, I wasn't aware you existed."
 
Considering how much time the thumbs are at the bottom of the screen, the balance needs to be shifted towards to about 1/3 from the bottom.
Ok so you're asking for the phone to be bottom heavy, got it. The original comment that started this discussion claimed that the phone is top heavy, which it isn't. Not sure about what you're suggesting, you may be right. But apple probably ran some trials before settling on the current weight distribution. I'm guessing that if they went ahead and made the phones bottom heavy, this forum would be flooded with upset users about that too
 
I'm definitely waiting for iPhone 18 pro if this is the most horrific design Apple has come up with!
 
Seriously what is with the bumps? Am I the only person who wouldn't mind a thicker phone to accommodate a battery that won't run out within a few hours?!
No but at this point apple are actually designing a car battery with a screen to please all you people. It’s a ‘mere’ 26.2 cm thick with a 10” diagonal screen. And weights 10kg but ‘its what the people are asking for’ according to sources close to Tim Apple.
 
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Seriously what is with the bumps? Am I the only person who wouldn't mind a thicker phone to accommodate a battery that won't run out within a few hours?!

A few hours and your battery is dead? What did the Apple Store employees say when you brought it back? You did that, right?
 
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😂 The details that get leaked are soooo small and specific. And here I am reading every one
 
I'm not sure this is how the antenna's actually work. The common understanding is that the RF lines allow breaks in the metal chassis for signals to pass through. However that doesn't make a whole lot of sense for iPhone's with full glass backs. I always thought the chassis itself was used as an antenna, and the RF lines are breaks to separate different types of antennas...
You may be right and it does sounds familiar now that you mention is, but I'm not entirely sure. So what would the additional lines mean in this scenario? That the camera bump also acts as an antenna? Or maybe it's being done to avoid running longer antenna lines the way they had to do with the iPhone 6
 
I'm not sure this is how the antenna's actually work. The common understanding is that the RF lines allow breaks in the metal chassis for signals to pass through. However that doesn't make a whole lot of sense for iPhone's with full glass backs. I always thought the chassis itself was used as an antenna, and the RF lines are breaks to separate different types of antennas...
it is said that iphone 17 will come back to aluminium instead of glass, or maybe its just the frame
 
Ok so you're asking for the phone to be bottom heavy, got it. The original comment that started this discussion claimed that the phone is top heavy, which it isn't. Not sure about what you're suggesting, you may be right. But apple probably ran some trials before settling on the current weight distribution. I'm guessing that if they went ahead and made the phones bottom heavy, this forum would be flooded with upset users about that too

The original wasn't me.

I have no idea what to do, actually, but I agree that it's not top heavy...but it doesn't feel balanced in the sense that the weight is where it needs to be in the hand either. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
I'm not sure this is how the antenna's actually work. The common understanding is that the RF lines allow breaks in the metal chassis for signals to pass through. However that doesn't make a whole lot of sense for iPhone's with full glass backs. I always thought the chassis itself was used as an antenna, and the RF lines are breaks to separate different types of antennas...
Yes, that’s how it works. At the beginning I was confused, but now the render makes sense.

The bands on the bottom basically work as of now, by splitting the frame with an aluminium-glass sandwich (they reach the glass charging area), so they isolate the bottom part.

And if you look closely, the bands on the top surround the camera bump, so they isolate the body in three additional parts:
  • The middle part.
  • The bump itself.
  • The top part.
IMG_0056.jpeg

I guess Apple could add additional cutouts on the top and bottom, as of now.
 
Yes, that’s how it works. At the beginning I was confused, but now the render makes sense.

The bands on the bottom basically work as of now, by splitting the frame with an aluminium-glass sandwich (they reach the glass charging area), so they isolate the bottom part.

And if you look closely, the bands on the top surround the camera bump, so they isolate the body in three additional parts:
  • The middle part.
  • The bump itself.
  • The top part.
View attachment 2536477
I guess Apple could add additional cutouts on the top and bottom, as of now.
Actually looking at teardowns, those cutouts in the chassis are superficial, meaning they aren't traced internally. So the external symmetry is just aesthetic. I edited my original post.
 
Are you serious. You can't be serious. It looks like the Fiat Multipla of iPhones. Would you buy a Multipla and be like yeah, who cares, all I look at all day is the road and it's the same road on every car.
Yes, I'm serious. Is it ugly? Yes. Will I ever see the back? No. So why should I care that it's ugly?
 
**** that's ugly. Ugly. The ugliest thing I've ever seen in a smartphone. This year will be year of the ugliest iPhone ever. Apple will redefine what "ugly" means. If they can't shock with innovation, they will shock with...ugly.
How is this uglier than the current bump? Which I agree is kinda ugly but I'm used to it by now. Square bumps, rectangular bumps, what's the difference?
 
I hope this rumor is true and it actually helps reception because it's embarrassing for Apple how much better my OnePlus 13's reception is than my 16 Pro Max. Heck I was out eating with my partner the other day and his crappy Nord N30 I got him from Metro for like $40 had blazing fast 5G+ on AT&T while my 16 Pro Max, also on AT&T, couldn't get a 5G signal at all and dropped to slow LTE in the same location. As soon as we stepped outside my 16 Pro Max blew past his Nord thanks to the massively better modem but indoors my service was barely usable. I love the 16 Pro Max and it fully replaced my OnePlus 13 as my daily driver but I have to have two services now to make sure I can use my phone everywhere when AT&T worked everywhere on the OnePlus.
 
Apple to busy working on software improvements
Where is the underscreen Face ID that Samsung has had for years
Where are the transistorized buttons,
Why are we going back to stainless steel frame instead of Titanium which is lighter and better
The list goes on….
The answer is simple, Steve Jobs once said ‘they’ll buy what we give them’ and now Tim Cook is following that idea
 
Why don't they just put the antenna in the camera bump?

(only half kidding—I know nothing about RF engineering)
 
Apple UI designers after looking at the faces of the RF engineers:
"We call it the Denver Jockstrap!"
 
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