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iPhone 17 Pro Max's Internal Design With Metal Battery Allegedly Leaks
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It made more sense for the Fold which will be using Liquid Metal.
Your comment makes me think you missed the point of Larry_G’s post. He was commenting on the poorly written headline.
Don't they say that Apple likes to integrate software with the hardware? The new liquid glass UI is also ugly for a reason.
I think you got that backwards. Apple decided to move the Apple logo down, while Magsafe remains centered. This makes the Apple logo overlap with the MagSafe ring, which is why the clear cases are leaving out that portion of the ring.
The move of the Apple logo isn’t due to MagSafe. The change in the clear case design is due to the Apple logo being moved while the MagSafe ring is not being moved along with it.
Not true.
During the X and Xs steel was the absolute best.
Then we had titanium on the 15 Pro, the best and most robust
This year we got the Aluminium unibody with clear advantages for thermals and strength.
The marketing perspective is a dynamic one and changes from product to product
Seems so. Not that great.
While I like this two tone design on the backside as rumoured for the 17 Pros, having the apple logo centered in the mag safe ring was also nice.
Some cases might offer weird design choices.
Completely disagree. While aluminum is lighter weight, it’s extremely soft compared to titanium. So, drop it without a case, major damage every time. I have seen it so many times. Since I have had the titanium iPhone, not a single ding in my frame. I have dropped it at least 50 times. Many times on concrete or hard floors. Aluminum is a much worse material for a portable phone. It’s not even close. The Air and Fold will both be made with titanium. Apple sold us titanium because it was premium for pro iPhones, now they can’t afford it or cannot source enough with the Airs and Folds next year which require more strength. Aluminum is about the cheapest metal there is…
Well, I have an iPhone SE 3, and I have dropped it a few times without the case, and this thing has held quite well. And mind you, this is the cheapest iPhone model there is…
Yes, with the squared edges it’s easier to make dents, but we don’t buy an iPhone to drop it every now and then, we must be careful because, aluminum, steel or titanium, the back is made out of glass anyways, and that glass shatters easily. Well, maybe now that the back glass on the Pro models won’t be edge-to-edge, the rear glass won’t be an easy target of a any accidental drop.
By the way, I didn’t know the iPhone Air was going to receive the same thin external layer of Titanium that was used with the 15 Pro and 16 Pro.
Definitely. But to be honest I don't even care about the chip throttling a bit. It's the display dimming that's the most annoying. They advertise peak brightness at like 2,000 nits or whatever, but when you actually need it on a sunny day it dims within seconds. I don't need 2,000 nits in the dark or inside the house, it's specifically useful for sunny days outside. And that's exactly where it fails miserably.
I kind of doubt that switching the frame to aluminum will fix this behavior though.
Looking at this design, I can't wait for the twentieth anniversary iPhone, because surely that one will introduce a new design. It has to, after the same design since the iPhone 12. And of course there's no hope the iPhone 18 will get a redesign, just 1 year ahead of the twentieth anniversary one.
Not to me and not to many people. I'd bet my house we'll see a redesign for the twentieth anniversary. The iPhone is still Apple's biggest product, the need for something new is much much greater than with the Apple Watch, Mac or anything else. We saw that with the Series 10. In any case, we'll see at the end of next year when leaks start coming of the twentieth anniversary model.
So what are you gonna say when/if it turns out this is indeed how ugly it’ll look? 😏
Or maybe you didn’t understand his reply to the joke. The purpose of the metal shell is to contain the leaking battery 😂
If you’re excited now wait till you see the iPhone 20/30. It’ll have an advanced polymer construction 😂Not true.
During the X and Xs steel was the absolute best.
Then we had titanium on the 15 Pro, the best and most robust
This year we got the Aluminium unibody with clear advantages for thermals and strength.
The marketing perspective is a dynamic one and changes from product to product
I said iPhone 20/30 because I thought the iPhone 17 was supposed to be the iPhone 26. Named after the year 2026. Maybe that’s been scrapped
I think the only iPhone model that didn't have a design leak was the original one. But the rest did have leaks, including the 3G
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Can make excuses any way you want, Apple is going cheap on the materials and making the iPhones Pro worse.
If they're adding a metal cover, why not add tabs to make the battery screw-attached to the chassis, so it's easier to repair without needing another tool?
I'm still running on my iPhone Pro Max 13. The rumored camera updates (and the orange color) has me ready to jump.
Me too! Aluminum is ideal for its weight and its heat dissipation. Apple's move toward more "premium" materials was a misguided attempt at justifying higher prices they wanted, and it added NOTHING to the user.
Yet you have clueless people crying about losing their "premium" materials when they are only worse for the actual product.
Is the aluminum 12.9" iPad Pro somehow less premium? What about the 16" MacBook Pro? LMAO.
I wasn’t making any excuses, just following a discussion defending my opinions, one of them being “cheap doesn’t always mean worse”. But hey, I respect your disagreement and we can agree to disagree.