iPhone 17 Pro Max's Internal Design With Metal Battery Allegedly Leaks

So the new camera module design is purely aesthetic? If that’s the case, it would be pretty disappointing.

Change for the sake of change = Lame!
 
novagamer said:
I don’t think the Apple logo is moving either. Nobody cares about it lining up with magsafe, the clear case will either not be offered or will be redesigned.

To think the entire phone would be ugly in order to center magsafe behind the logo is moronic and I can’t believe people keep sharing that design like it’s final or was even ever considered.
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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.
 
DrWojtek said:
So funny that people were convinced they got an upgrade in the form of titanium. Now all of a sudden they’ll find out they paid for a downgrade. But it’s all good, of course!
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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 :)
 
klasma said:
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.
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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.
 
Populus said:
I’m so glad to see the Pro line going back to a full aluminum case, the best heat dissipation from all the materials tested.

I guess this year the cameras are making a big jump in quality, but I’m still not sure if that bump will allocate something else besides the camera system, such as… the rumored vapor chamber? Or maybe all the antennas and comm chips in there?
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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…
 
ThailandToo said:
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…
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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.
 
The Game 161 said:
Better cooling is one of the most needed features for the iPhone
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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.
 
BelgianChoklit said:
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.
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Wishful thiking

What new design!?

Most importantly are the internals imo
 
N0ughtsAndCr0sses said:
Wishful thiking

What new design!?

Most importantly are the internals imo
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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.
 
novagamer said:
I’ve never been more convinced pre-release renders are wrong.

The back won’t look like that and I don’t think the Apple logo is moving either. Nobody cares about it lining up with magsafe, the clear case will either not be offered or will be redesigned.

To think the entire phone would be ugly in order to center magsafe behind the logo is moronic and I can’t believe people keep sharing that design like it’s final or was even ever considered.

For similar reasons I don’t understand why nobody is talking about 2TB.
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So what are you gonna say when/if it turns out this is indeed how ugly it’ll look? 😏
 
Biro said:
Your comment makes me think you missed the point of Larry_G’s post. He was commenting on the poorly written headline.
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Or maybe you didn’t understand his reply to the joke. The purpose of the metal shell is to contain the leaking battery 😂
 
Reeneman said:
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 :)
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If you’re excited now wait till you see the iPhone 20/30. It’ll have an advanced polymer construction 😂


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
 
Moonlight said:
Remember the days when the iPhone didn't have leaks like this, and seeing the iPhone 4 in the wild was the only leak we got? I guess they stopped doubling down.
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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

www.macrumors.com

3G iPhone with Glossy Black Back?

iPodObserver posted an image that they claim represents what the rumored 3G iPhone will look like:Apparently the new iPhone will also sport a glossy...
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Populus said:
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.
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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?
 
Populus said:
I’m so glad to see the Pro line going back to a full aluminum case, the best heat dissipation from all the materials tested.

I guess this year the cameras are making a big jump in quality, but I’m still not sure if that bump will allocate something else besides the camera system, such as… the rumored vapor chamber? Or maybe all the antennas and comm chips in there?
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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.
 
ThailandToo said:
Can make excuses any way you want, Apple is going cheap on the materials and making the iPhones Pro worse.
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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.
 
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