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iPhone 6 Concept Imagines iPod Nano-Like Design
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This post was funny enough to make me laugh. Samsung and other vendors have made numerous phones without a home button. The entire surface as a print scanner... rumored to be on the S5 before they went with the finger slide. So that's nothing new either. There hasn't been a phone that copied the look of the iPhone in a number of years. Pretty much everyone has their own style which can be easily identified. You're sort of recycling old cliche's.
Current ipods and ipads are flat back, just a more rounded bottom edge than th iphone.
I mean with the edges. I like the last generation of iPads (3 and 4) and iPods (4), with the curves. I just can't like the iPod 5/iPad Air.
I'd be happy with that, so long as the camera doesn't protrude like it does on the iPod touch.
No way the sides look like this. No way.
I totally expect it to look like the iPad air with a 4.7" display and TouchID.
I totally expect it to look like the iPad air with a 4.7" display and TouchID.
I for one really like these concepts. It's all subjective. However, if this is how the final product will look, I'll be upgrading my iPhone 5 on launch day.
Got a window for the wifi/BT combo antenna already
Going to need 3 more if it's going to get MIMO 2x2 support, and a pair for diversity cellular reception, maybe 3 if they upgrade cellular performance bringing the total to 4.
Needs more cowbell. XD
I like the idea off less bevel and a thinner design. But I'm not fond of the idea of the square corners for the same reason others have pointed out. (Yes pun intended)
Someone's been spending too much time looking at Nokia phones. The iPod nano morphs and changes because it always has, and it's hardly a "mainstay" product; I severely doubt Apple would make such a radical design change for SUCH a "bread and butter" product line.
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Percy? Have you just left a French language lesson?
Why would it be a "good idea" to abandon rounded corners? Is that an arbitrary observation? Seems to make as much sense as abandoning round wheels for cars... there's no logic to it; Apple don't just make HUGE design changes in one generation for no apparent reason; I just can't see that.
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I don't get where all this "it's going to be "inspired" by the seventh generation nano and the iPhone 5c" are coming from. iPhones have almost never taken cues from iPod nano designs (if anything, at best, it's vice versa), and what...possible point would there be to them copying the iPhone 5c? The iPhone 5s has been a much better seller to them, and if there's one place I wouldn't expect people to think that Apple are a bunch of moronic idiots who would take such a stupid plunge as to put their new iPhone 6's bread into the same basket as the way worse-selling 5c, it's MacRumors.
Oh, and uhh, I hate the design. It's very reminiscent of a phone from another company I've seen (and yes, my thoughts went directly to the Xperia phones, but it was something else), and I can admit, I've been eyeing the HTC One a lot, because it is a pretty phone, and the iPhone 5 is actually my first iPhone ever (had a few iPod Touches before that, and a few old nanos), so I am open to liking other designs, but Apple has its own style that a lot of people have grown fond of, and I don't think they're gonna change it this radically. They do need to pull themselves together and put in place a, y'know, half-way normal feature-to-price ratio, but a re-design of this caliber is not going to help them.
Oh, and uhh, I don't really get the iPad Air hopes too. When has the iPhone taken cues from iPad designs? (And why the iPad Air, the 5th gen iPod Touch is pretty much a smaller iPad Air design-wise >:c) I'm sure there were a ton of stupid concepts like this before the iPhone 5 was unveiled, but Apple are not just going to release an iPhone Air (*shudder*). Admittedly, I'm not an Apple expert, but iPhones have always seemed to be their main bread and butter, and never the ones to copy other, pre-existing devices. The original iPhone, the 3G/S, 4 and 5 have always brought out their own new designs.
It's fun to speculate, but when you make concepts and it makes the news, you shouldn't be **** at it.
Oh, and uhh, I hate the design. It's very reminiscent of a phone from another company I've seen (and yes, my thoughts went directly to the Xperia phones, but it was something else), and I can admit, I've been eyeing the HTC One a lot, because it is a pretty phone, and the iPhone 5 is actually my first iPhone ever (had a few iPod Touches before that, and a few old nanos), so I am open to liking other designs, but Apple has its own style that a lot of people have grown fond of, and I don't think they're gonna change it this radically. They do need to pull themselves together and put in place a, y'know, half-way normal feature-to-price ratio, but a re-design of this caliber is not going to help them.
Oh, and uhh, I don't really get the iPad Air hopes too. When has the iPhone taken cues from iPad designs? (And why the iPad Air, the 5th gen iPod Touch is pretty much a smaller iPad Air design-wise >:c) I'm sure there were a ton of stupid concepts like this before the iPhone 5 was unveiled, but Apple are not just going to release an iPhone Air (*shudder*). Admittedly, I'm not an Apple expert, but iPhones have always seemed to be their main bread and butter, and never the ones to copy other, pre-existing devices. The original iPhone, the 3G/S, 4 and 5 have always brought out their own new designs.
It's fun to speculate, but when you make concepts and it makes the news, you shouldn't be **** at it.
Samsung went with the fingerprint sensor (inside the home button), when they heard that Apple was not pursuing a retina scanner for the iPhone 5s. Samsung had even been publicly contemplating eye-scanning technology for their new model, and then, as usual, went with the home button-based solution, copying Apple's design yet again. I am really hoping that Apple will shake up the design of the iPhone to distance it from competitors, who just can't stop copying it...
Way to move the cheese. Go back and read your quote and my response. Since that argument fell apart you decide to bring up eye scanning? It was one of the options they were looking at. It wasn't viable in the time frame to release the S5. Samsung went with tech that has been used for years in laptops and such. My laptop has the same print scanner on it. So if they copied anything they copied that. Honestly to call that copying is weak sauce.