nothing like making it thinner, slipperier and even harder to hold onto that it already is.
no way in hell.
no way in hell.
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Except for the Verizon iphone. Every story was posted as though the verizon iphone was definitely expected to arrive "this time for sure". This went on and on for years. It was so annoying.
This is what MR could do better, those stories where reports from other sites. I'm talking about specifically when Arn (or anyone else at MR) has heard something from their sources that's when they have a great track record.
Meh, not for me. I have trouble gripping my 2ng Gen iPod touch, this is just asking for disaster. 
I will say something I find funny is all the people calling the mock up ugly and the design stupid I just need to point back to about a year ago when the iPhone 4 leak out. People called it ugly, stupid, fake ect. And right after its release people said how great it look. Design looks great and so on.
I honestly expect a repeat here.
Reason I think Apple is going to try something very different is lets face it for the past 3-4 years almost all phones out there (iPhone included) have been pretty much just a solid flat slab. The design of the phone has not exactly changed much in a long time.
I honestly expect a repeat here.
Reason I think Apple is going to try something very different is lets face it for the past 3-4 years almost all phones out there (iPhone included) have been pretty much just a solid flat slab. The design of the phone has not exactly changed much in a long time.
This is clearly a mock up of the iphone.. ive seen this pic long back now.. its a users concept of the next iphone.. this is not a design made by apple.. com on macrumors.. did u really have to check this from a reliable source to know whether this was fake or not..
Oh yes indeed.
Mind you, there were some horridly hot AMD chips (as there have been Intel ones) at some times in the past, and they have indeed learned a lot since those days.
One thing they have learned is that they can't push CPU speeds anywhere near what they thought they could. Intel famously said we would be a 10Ghz years and years ago, before they realised they could not do this.
So they had to come up with other tricks and multiple cores to try and work around the thermal barrier they were hitting. I mean, we don't really want liquid nitrogen cooling systems on our computers
Yet despite this, cooling systems have got a LOT better over the past decade. Just look even at an official intel fan and heatsink on a Sandybridge CPU as opposed to one on a 286, 386, 486 CPU. They are MASSIVE these days in comparison, with 3rd party coolers being even larger.
That's just the CPU's.
Look at a modern medium (medium for a PC, hi end for a Mac) graphics card. It's MASSIVE when you put it against graphics cards of the past, with superbly designed heat pipes and cooling fans.
So, yes, you are quite correct, clever design will overcome heat to a point. However, unlike iMacs and PC's you can't get clever with heat pipes and fans in a phone. I'm sure clever design can only get so far, and we could see customer expectation for speed hikes overtake the ability to have ice cold chipsets in phones is a tight and snug thin case design.
Heat has got to go somewhere
Yes, heat dissipation would be disastrous. There is no fan or cooling system on these devices. release heat through the material and thus they need an extremely low amount of power conducted or the need for a forced cooling system [fins at least] to spread the heat out would be the necessary minimum.
I do like 3.7" screen, would prefer 4".
I do not mind the current thickness, any smaller and I might lose it, haha.
I do not mind the current thickness, any smaller and I might lose it, haha.
I hope this isn't what it looks like..
I certainly hope Apple has more sense than to put out an phone that looks retarded. It would be a sad day if ever Apple designed a phone with a screen that looks like that..
The edge to edge screen along with the smaller black border on the top make this phone like it takes the short bus to work.. NO, Apple, NO!!
I do, however, like the teardrop shape.
I wish Apple would go back to the aluminum backs, though.. a-la the iPad..and DUAL quadcore processors..
Now THAT would put a hurt on the competition..(which isn't really there to begin with..)
I certainly hope Apple has more sense than to put out an phone that looks retarded. It would be a sad day if ever Apple designed a phone with a screen that looks like that..
The edge to edge screen along with the smaller black border on the top make this phone like it takes the short bus to work.. NO, Apple, NO!!
I do, however, like the teardrop shape.
I wish Apple would go back to the aluminum backs, though.. a-la the iPad..and DUAL quadcore processors..
Now THAT would put a hurt on the competition..(which isn't really there to begin with..)
Well that doesn't apply to everyone. I think this mock-up is hideous but never complained about the iP4 design.
I think it's funny how a lot of people think this mockup is "hideous" when it is not that far off from their current iphones or form past iphones.
Edge to edge display a complete win for Apple and the other repair shops that perform broken screen replacements.
A complete fail for the case makers.
So thin the battery life is sure to be a negative, or in the best case scenario stay the same which is nothing to brag about.
A whopping 3.7" display Really? What a technological miracle that is
I'll pass, without hesitation, Apple seems to give a crap less about their loyal customers of many years. They'd much rather grab some new ones that have no clue, and don't care.
For them it's all about being "cool".
Hint: If you need to buy an iPhone to be cool, you have a real problem.
A complete fail for the case makers.
So thin the battery life is sure to be a negative, or in the best case scenario stay the same which is nothing to brag about.
A whopping 3.7" display Really? What a technological miracle that is
I'll pass, without hesitation, Apple seems to give a crap less about their loyal customers of many years. They'd much rather grab some new ones that have no clue, and don't care.
For them it's all about being "cool".
Hint: If you need to buy an iPhone to be cool, you have a real problem.
I certainly hope Apple has more sense than to put out an phone that looks retarded. It would be a sad day if ever Apple designed a phone with a screen that looks like that..
The edge to edge screen along with the smaller black border on the top make this phone like it takes the short bus to work.. NO, Apple, NO!!
I do, however, like the teardrop shape.
I wish Apple would go back to the aluminum backs, though.. a-la the iPad..and DUAL quadcore processors..
Now THAT would put a hurt on the competition..(which isn't really there to begin with..)
There is no portable device with multiple processors, Only servers need to have dual quadcores anyway, I think you meant just a dual core. You also would not be able to hold a dual quadcore device in your hand with current tech you will get burned.
I don't like the teardrop design, although I'd welcome any changes they made. I like the current design although I think a 3.5 inch screen is too small for me. I'm currently on the Android wagon and love the top specs the phones have; however I currently have an upgrade and if they new iPhone 5 has great specs and a slew of new features, I would have no problem switching over.
Update to article misinterpreted?
I think the update simply means this won't be how the next release of the iphone will look (due this summer). But then we've been given to understand that the next release of the iphone will be an iphone 4S. The same form factor as the current iphone, but with a faster processor, a more reliable antenna, and maybe more memory on the base models.
To me, this looks like a very likely design for the iphone 5, due for release Summer 2012.
(Therefore MR is correct to keep this article on page 1.)
I think the update simply means this won't be how the next release of the iphone will look (due this summer). But then we've been given to understand that the next release of the iphone will be an iphone 4S. The same form factor as the current iphone, but with a faster processor, a more reliable antenna, and maybe more memory on the base models.
To me, this looks like a very likely design for the iphone 5, due for release Summer 2012.
(Therefore MR is correct to keep this article on page 1.)
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He forgot to mention that it will be available in 12 colors as well as a Gold leaf and titanium. LOL
Nice story and great photo.
He forgot to mention that it will be available in 12 colors as well as a Gold leaf and titanium. LOL
Nice story and great photo.
Rather than a larger display on the same size device, I would prefer the same edge-to-edge technique used to make a smaller phone with the same size display as the current iPhone. The current iPhone still seems a little wide and tall to me compared to some of my previous cell phones.
I care less about what it looks like and more about LTE tethering. Please, give us fast internet!
What's more funny is the people who think the mock-up looks anything like past, much less current iphones.
The old iPhones look nothing like this one...
On another note, I'm glad this ended up being fake. I don't like the feel of an iPod Touch im my hands because it is slick and way too thin. I hope that isn't the route they decide to go.
Too big. With phone that big Apple would not be able to make their favorite commercials (with small manicured hands in them). So, no deal.