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'iPhone 17 Slim' Could Move Rear Cameras to Top Center in Biggest Redesign Since iPhone X
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Why not make them thicker with more battery and no camera bump?
Please no, my hands hurt as it is. What we want is battery life, which could be accomplished with another die shrink, as performance is already pretty great
If this indeed sits above the Pro Max, Apple will unexpectedly push the boundaries of thinness once more, which I believe is a good thing as long as they can find ways to maintain structural integrity and battery life. With the recent iPad Pro release, it seems they may move in that direction.
I would have expected an iPhone Ultra to move in the direction of being thicker and more rugged (like the Watch Ultra) than the Pro phone lineup but perhaps Apple will surprise us all….
I would have expected an iPhone Ultra to move in the direction of being thicker and more rugged (like the Watch Ultra) than the Pro phone lineup but perhaps Apple will surprise us all….
Are they going for a Samsung Galaxy S10e/S10/S10+/S10 5G or Google Pixel 6/7/8 look?
I actually find the Dynamic Island concept to be fantastic asymmetrical thinking and a brilliant use of the space. I use it every day.
But it does nothing that the notch didn't achieve, except eat further into the screen.
The objection isn't to it being thin, it is to the inevitable compromises that come with thinness. If it is thinner, it can't have as much battery or as good a camera. (Yes, advancements elsewhere can partially compensate for this, but thin never helps anything.). "Thin" is often the excuse for losing ports and features we like. And it risks bending the phone. It shows Apple's arrogance for telling, rather than asking what we actually want.
? …it’s dynamic… it adds visual multitasking to the iPhone, it’s great
Well, you don't really have a choice, do you?
Anyone who honestly wanted that area could implement it in software, without the need for a dead area on the screen below it.
That’s objectively false. The notch was just a black screen element. It didn’t show you the status of any background apps, etc. in other words, it wasn’t “Dynamic.”
If they can give you all day battery life and still make it thin and light, what’s the problem? No one should be using an iPad more than 10 hours in a day, and if you forget to charge it, that’s not really the fault of Apple and everyone else who would prefer it to be lighter. It’s also bad for the environment for everyone to be carrying around extra battery capacity they don’t need
Uh, yeah, you do. It’s a UI/UX element— you can choose click on it to access ongoing directions in Maps, music in Spotify, Voice Memo recording, etc. Or you can choose not to and ignore it. 😁
But it could have been had it been coded to do so like the dynamic island. The DI is literally a notch further down the screen.
The way the Dynamic Island shows info about media playing in the background and controls or shows timers or gps information couldn’t be replicate the same with the notch.
They could program the notch to do the same. The notch could stretch horizontally and vertically in the same manner.
Yes it could, the notch could literally stretch horizontally and do the same thing, if they coded it to.
It's been said that a large portion of both Windows and Intel chips are crud that is rarely used but are there to support all the outdated crud. It's a circular punch in the face. My worry, as with the latest MacBook Pro is they listen to the loud minority and they figure, why even try? And we end up with the stagnation of both Windows and Intel and every other company that stagnated and got leapfrogged by catering to current consumers who like conformity and want cars to be compatible with the horse.
So basically you're unironically whining about Macbook PROs having too much port variety while complaining about others expressing their interests with valid reasons behind them (you're definitely in the minority in the ports vs thickness opinions). And to top it off you used the tired Steve Jobs wouldn't have done this line... speaking of being outdated and not moving forward.
If you really care about the highest fidelity screen for your entertainment of choice, and not missing a single pixel of the action, should you really be watching it on a phone at all?
It’s a phone, it’s trying so hard to be everything to everybody, but there will always be some compromises when space is at a premium.
The island is more visually pleasing to look at than the notch was, and Apple cares about that, in addition to the usefulness. If you care more about having edge to edge pixels look at an Android where they don’t have faceID.
And a hot swappable battery, and a headphone jack, and a home button, and no stupid notch/pill!
I don't care if it's twice or three times as thick as they are now. I don't care if it weighs 5x as much. I'm just sick of the HORRIBLE compromises Apple has made to functionality because of Ive's gross anorexia fetish.
That would have no battery life. Apple's fatal mistake with the 12 Mini was keeping it the same thickness as its other phones that had greater surface area; it should have been a little thicker to offer more volume for a battery. The 13s battery life is fairly decent, but the reputation was already tarnished and Apple had already canceled future plans by the time the 13 mini came out.
I am interested to see if a mini device could succeed in a Pro form factor (sadly probably not), but throwing it in a thinner chassis definitely won't work out.
Won’t argue on that headphone jack. What exactly do we need a home button for though?
Hot swappable batteries were a thing because battery life sucked on everything at the time. Is 10 hours of screen-on time in a day not enough? They make battery banks and battery cases in that case. Most people don’t want a phone that heavy, especially if they’re holding it all day.
Have you tried turning off Background App Refresh?
Well said. Thank you! Some people will never be happy.