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iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max Design Rumors: Translucent MagSafe Area, Display Sizes, and More
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Also means way worse thermals. Makes everything else mentioned even more dubious than it would otherwise be.
Knowing Apple, they’ll tweak them ever so slightly that the 17 series cases won’t work with the 18.
I still don't get why their transparent case has that white square over the MagSafe area, and now they're going to make the phone itself transparent? Just to cover it up again?
I'll be ready to upgrade to the new iPhone 18 Svelte, 5.4 inch display, less than 100g, three decent cameras and a two day battery life.
Think the next year's update will be a small one. It will have the usual chip improvements and maybe a smaller dynamic island. Hope Apple will have a bright color for the Pro every year going forward. Apple's star will be their foldable in 2026.
I'd have said black is more likely than orange, but here we are... Let's see in a years time if it was just a 1 year absence or a continued trend. Luckily I prefer blue anyway so it was an easy choice for me but I know so many that prefer black.
I tend to agree re next year being minor improvements to the Pro. Going to the next generation in geometry could see fairly significant improvements in performance and power, efficiency especially if that is coupled with any significant changes to any of the CPU/GPU/NPU architectures, and if so that gives Apple something to focus on in the launch event to distract away from the fact that there are very few if any other significant improvements.
I also suspect that 2026 might be the year when Apple pushes the eSIM-only versions out to more territories, perhaps to every territory so that it can get back to only having one internal design for each model (same PCB, same battery shape, same internal layout, same manufacturing process/steps apart from the case colour application, etc). Tim is a logistics man so I'm sure he wants to get to that point ASAP.
If Apple can overcome the current issues with the Air eSIM in China and spends the next year pushing hold-out mobile operators in its major markets to release eSIM options for their plans that might well clear the way for Apple to go global on eSIM-only across all models for the September 2026 iPhone releases.
Every time I see a pic of the 17 Pro it just looks off, am I alone in thinking that? A rectangle design, with an elongated rectangular camera bump, then another rectangle for the ceramic back. It looks kind of whacky.
The back glass on the navy one matches a lot better than the back glass on the orange one. The glass colour choice on both were not accidental, but if their intention was to create more contrast on the orange one to make it even more unique that decision was misguided. A more blended transition with a glass colour closer to the orange aluminium colourway would have made the phone better looking.
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Yes. Now it is two toned. Love the orange but would have liked glass to have similar color as that of aluminium.
What's your idea of what they should be doing, if not releasing new products like you're complaining about?
The 2nm fab is supposed to bring significant power savings (up to 20%) and same with the C2. Hopefully we also finally see 16GB of RAM and a smaller, less intrusive Dynamic Island.
Think carriers might push back if Apple goes all eSIM in 2026? Even in iOS 26, a file manager that I used in my Android, isn't available. App store has this, but it's not the real one. I want this file explorer to be installable from the App Store. (Both's name is same but actually aren't) Is there any way to request apple to bring it? I hope they will by 2026...
This makes sense. If they know next years update is minimal, of course they’re saving the good colors for that. Otherwise no one would choose them over the 17 line.
