iPhone 17 Pro With All-New Camera Bar Design Allegedly Revealed

[eysiskal]

That looks like ****.

 

[mrr]

Wouldn’t it be cool if the iPhone 17 supported the Apple Pencil?

 

[verniesgarden]

Sigh…… my idea of a camera on every corner was better.

like the Amazon Fire Phone

 

[Crickster]

Whatever they do can they arrange the cameras so they can get rid of the annoying rocking? Maybe put them in a slightly spaced out triangle in the middle?

 

[Itzik Templeman]

It doesn’t make any sense that the lidar sensor and flash would be so far away from the lenses

 

[verniesgarden]

the long bump might be there to to do the periscope lens thing

 

[UliBaer]

No!

 

[audir10]

It’s very straightforward to think that the blank space perfectly fits a small OLED screen and it blends in well. Why nobody was commenting that.

 

[jonblatho]

Do these people actually take a step back and look at these terrible renders before they post them? I doubt Apple would do something this ugly.

People said exactly this about the legitimate iPhone 4 prototype that was found in a bar.

 

[CausticSoda]

IF that turned out to be true, it would be one of the laziest "look I've got the new model" designs ever, and it's horrid.

 

[LoveToMacRumors]

It’s ugly but because it’s different than since the iPhone 12 pro, im all for it..

 

[Rogifan]

Just saying right now…it won’t look anything like those renders.

 

[VisceralRealist]

Thanks, I hate it.

I'm all for changing up the camera layout, but doubling the size of the camera bump is not what I had in mind.

 

[Joshuaorange]

There may very well be a camera bar but no chance it will look like the render. Perhaps the whole top 1/3 of the phone will be black. Kind of like the original iPhone flipped upside down.

 

[Makosuke]

I’m relatively neutral as far as this possible design goes, but the question that immediately comes to mind is: If you’re going to have one whole side of the phone be a camera bump, and the phone is the only commonly-owned consumer product on the market capable of recording spatial video for one of your other products, why not go all in and move one lens to the other side so you can get some actual 3D separation of the lenses?

I suppose that would negatively impact the ability to smoothly switch between lenses or combine them for composite images, and those tools are used by vastly more people than Spatial Video, but part of me feels like if you’re taking it that far, and they’re committed to the Vision line, you might as well go all-in. Heck, stick a fourth lens on the other side just for spatial video.

 

[NetMage]

Plus, it would require more material and deliver no benefits whatsoever.

There would be a benefit for those that complain about the phone wobbling when set flat and those that complain FaceID doesn't see them when flat. It wouldn't wobble and have a slight tilt giving it a better angle.

 

[Rogifan]

If course it does. It's to:

1. Encourage people to upgrade by giving the new model a unique look that will tell other people at a glance you have the latest and greatest(?) model.
2. Make sure it's not compatible with existing cases, requiring you to buy a new one.

There are plenty of ways to give a new model a new look. Why this?

 

[NetMage]

Just hide the entire back behind 1 way glass and put a larger battery in it. Voila!

I don't want a heavier phone.

 

[SoldOnApple]

I guess it would let Apple pack more sensors in the black part down the line, and let them have iPhone cases from now on be compatible with those sensors. I thought iPhone/Pro was due for a form factor upgrade soon though?

 

[Purrific]

Very ugly, I wish Steve could come back to throw it against the wall and tell them to come back with a proper design (assuming this render is halfway accurate).

 

[Seoras]

I wonder, if that design is correct, if there's some new optics tech in there that require depth that a thin phone can't provide so instead they've placed a 45degree mirror below each camera and the optics are mounted horizontally under that huge bar. Maybe there's some impressive new zoom capabilities coming in the '17.

 

[Apple Fan 2008]

Whoever made this... never cook again ❤️

 

[555gallardo]

Do these people actually take a step back and look at these terrible renders before they post them? I doubt Apple would do something this ugly.

I remember when people doubted a rectangular iPhone 4, a slightly taller iPhone 5, a plastic iPhone 5c, two larger iPhone 6 models, the iPhone 7 and 8 having a recycled design and an ever-growing camera tumor since the iPhone 11.

 

[marinersaptcomplex]

Prosser was “certain” the 14 Pro would look like this btw:

 

[marinersaptcomplex]

There’s gotta be something missing here if this is really it. They wouldn’t make it bigger for no reason. It’s like the Dynamic Island before anyone knew about the fill, the leaks had it right in terms of hardware but it just two dots and looked odd. The software fill between made it what it is.

If (and a big if) this is real, it’s likely because the individual lenses have gotten so obscenely large, that the current square camera bump on the 6.1” Pro would take up more than 2/3rds of the back glass, and it would make more sense to just take it all the way to the edge for symmetry.