Not since the 5S with it's different colored top and bottom. Plus, I'm sure with a little bit of work Jony Ives could find a way to hide the seam just under the antenna band.
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Not since the 5S with it's different colored top and bottom. Plus, I'm sure with a little bit of work Jony Ives could find a way to hide the seam just under the antenna band.
So the device is seamless, amazing, and beautiful. You start adding parts that are removable you immediately start taking away from the beauty and simplicity of the device.
thinner and lighter
a removable battery design will need a sturdy battery compartment and a sturdy battery casing.
both of which will increase the bulk of the phone.
plus for ultra thin designs require irregular battery shapes are required (ie. the unibody macbooks)
removable batteries are not possible in that scenario
NO NO NO, no more non-standard, non Full HD, random, and odd screen resolutions. It's becoming absurd! Please Apple stop this practice. What will be easier for developers is if they can use standard resolutions and multipliers... i.e. 1080P or 2X1080P. This way their assets can be the same as most other platforms they develop for and they don't have to hand craft specialized sizes just because Apple decides to use some odd ball resolution. Furthermore it would make content viewing much more predictable since content (especially video and the web) are usually scaled to real standard resolutions. Lastly don't go through all the trouble of introducing a larger display and STILL have a lower PPI count and lower resolution than already come standard on other platforms. Stop making your fans and yourselves look foolish by introducing something that is behind what's already considered industry standard and then go on and on about it as if it was better than anything in the industry. As a long time Apple fan who's spent over $25K on Apple products for myself and family; this behavior bugs me to no end. If you're going to make a larger display and then predictably market it as industry leading then actually make it industry leading in some way. Make it sharper, higher resolution, better colour saturation, better viewing angles, brighter in sunlight, etc... you get the idea. Make it BETTER not just bigger, with a lower resolution, and lower PPI, and decent color but say it's great just because you are the one that made it. /end rant
We'll have a pretty good guess of the screen size once resolutions leak within the iOS codes like they did with the iPad.
Doesn't Apple let developers know ahead of time new resolutions so their apps can be ready?
If we hear nothing, then I'm guessing the new iPhone could have a resolution the same as an iPad so apps would be already ready.
Doesn't Apple let developers know ahead of time new resolutions so their apps can be ready?
If we hear nothing, then I'm guessing the new iPhone could have a resolution the same as an iPad so apps would be already ready.
Would be nice if they can figure out a way to make the screen edge to edge and make the physical par of the phone as small as possible. I guess we'll see soon.
Come on Mr. Cook it's 2014 now CES is over.. let's pull some good old fashion Apple product announcement bomb and give us something new and cool! iWatch iTV iToaster something!
Come on Mr. Cook it's 2014 now CES is over.. let's pull some good old fashion Apple product announcement bomb and give us something new and cool! iWatch iTV iToaster something!
thinner and lighter is true, yes
now we get into all the reasons I deplore the iMac, but this is a phone, so your logic holds
Agreed! 4.5 is totally doable, even on the existing 5 series. Screen can easily expand to the side edges. an 1/8 on each side, and possibly a 1/4 inch on top? With me, any phone needs to be one hand usability. Aren't rumours exciting?
I finally broke down an bought an iPhone 5S and I have to say, I would like a bigger screen for two reasons. First, at 52 my eyes aren't what they used to be. Second, I'm a big guy and have big hands. The keyboard is too small for my big fingers. I don't see why they don't make two sizes - big hands and little hands.
On the flip side, those who shout bigger is better aren't always right. Before I bought my iPhone, I saw a smallish woman trying to use her big Samsung phone while at the store and attempting to control her little kids. Sheesh, the phone was nearly the size of my iPad mini. It didn't work out well. She had to use two hands while the kids ran around the store and had no place to put the phone while she wasn't using it.
Bottom line, I'm glad I selected the iPhone as I bought in to the Apple ecosystem and it does a lot of things and does them very well.
On the flip side, those who shout bigger is better aren't always right. Before I bought my iPhone, I saw a smallish woman trying to use her big Samsung phone while at the store and attempting to control her little kids. Sheesh, the phone was nearly the size of my iPad mini. It didn't work out well. She had to use two hands while the kids ran around the store and had no place to put the phone while she wasn't using it.
Bottom line, I'm glad I selected the iPhone as I bought in to the Apple ecosystem and it does a lot of things and does them very well.
Even if they could, and made it look completely amazing, I still wouldn't want it, it is simply not needed at all. The vast vast majority would never change or remove the battery.
Apple's worst idea to me in the past few years has been the iPod Touch Loop. Completely useless, and no one used it, the only thing that did was make a button people would press in and out because it is addictive. Design wise it was the best they could make it look, but as a functional standpoint, it was 100% useless, and NOT needed.
If this holds true, I'll even stand in line.
A 4.7-4.8" display is definitely the sweet-spot in my opinion. I'm also happy to hear that Apple are developing (r)evolutionary software features, which I'm sure will utilize the larger screen.
I believe the iPhone 6 will be the most revolutionary iPhone in a long time. The iPhone 6 will be what the iPad Air was, to the iPad 4-lineup.
CAN'T WAIT!
A 4.7-4.8" display is definitely the sweet-spot in my opinion. I'm also happy to hear that Apple are developing (r)evolutionary software features, which I'm sure will utilize the larger screen.
I believe the iPhone 6 will be the most revolutionary iPhone in a long time. The iPhone 6 will be what the iPad Air was, to the iPad 4-lineup.
CAN'T WAIT!
That's exactly the reason why Apple silently introduced that swipe-back-gesture some time ago. Believe me, they will certainly justify the bigger screen with software tweaks like that at the coming press event.
My issue with that is the fact that very few people know that the swipe gesture exists. It brings me pain when I see everyone I know reach for that arrow in the top left corner or click on the little "x"s to close Safari tabs...
i dont know where you come up with all this vast majority crap
anyone with an older ios device with a deteriorated battery would replace the battery, rather than suffer with it or simply throw out the device.
its all part of planned obsolescence.
I agree. I just switched to a nexus 5. Loving it, (the issues I had with android before have been solved, and it's a really solid device). I can't go back to a 4" screen, honestly been thinking about going bigger to the note 3 hahah
4.7 is the biggest I will ever want. My gs4 was to big. If it went my way they would keep the phone the same size and just make the bezel narrower. However if they came out with a 4.8 inch phone I will probably end up getting it.
Soon even men who have these large screen phones will be carrying them in a under the arm purse but I'm sure it will be called a mini satchel or something.
They already do it with iPads... now they'll have almost and iPad in a smaller form-factor while it's capable of calling.
Not sure what's idiotic about what he said. It's true for a number of people. I'm no devotee of a specific brand. I look at what's important to me, narrow my choice, and decide. With phones, the final qualifier was size. If Apple makes a larger phone then they will be in the mix when I decide to upgrade. If they don't, there's no harm/no foul for me or Apple.
I bolded a sentence from your quote. What does that sentence actually mean?
You know people who wear stilettos that prefer a 3.5" phone. /jk Or were you saying because someone has a lot of money their preference for a smaller phone carries more weight? Neither makes sense.No one is saying "Get rid of smaller phones." Why is that so hard for you to see? What some people are saying is "Give me a choice of a larger phone." One does not cancel out the other.
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Every design has its own ups and downs .. I dunno about you guys but I would love a 4.7 inch iPhone because iOS is slowly being tweaked for larger screens .. The swipe to go back is a clue .. I love watching movies on my nexus 4 and if the iPhone can adopt the screen size it'll be awesome ...
Just wait before claiming 4" is ooptimal because let's face it ..sometimes I look at my 5s and think it looks like a remote
Just wait before claiming 4" is ooptimal because let's face it ..sometimes I look at my 5s and think it looks like a remote
