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iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Launch Predicted to Be Week of September 12th [Updated]
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What I never understood was how Jobs was happy with the NeXT OS. Unix and its clucky motif environment wasn't exactly Macintosh.
Yes they apparently had plenty at launch. Then they had a big dry spell for months afterward when positive word of mouth got out.
I'm looking forward to these. Though I stayed away from the 6 series for being so badly aesthetically designed and how old fashioned they looked with the honking 2007 type bezels, this looks like a great refinement. What the 6 series should have looked like had Ive's team not been on strike.
So I'll pick up this years Plus model as I already have an SE as my daily driver and will skip next years all new model and get the following year's S model .
But again, all the little touches, the attention to detail on this years model all add up to what SJ strove for. Product excellence. That's something we couldn't say about the 6 series or the UI starting with ios7. Sounds like Apple is getting back on track.
So I'll pick up this years Plus model as I already have an SE as my daily driver and will skip next years all new model and get the following year's S model .
But again, all the little touches, the attention to detail on this years model all add up to what SJ strove for. Product excellence. That's something we couldn't say about the 6 series or the UI starting with ios7. Sounds like Apple is getting back on track.
I've never seen an Android phone that I thought looked good. Fortunately I can assume most Android phone companies have better judgement than to copy the 6S or 7 designs.
But your 6s Plus has even uglier antenna lines than what they predict for the next one to have, confusedI am holding up until September 2017, better off with iPhone 6s plus than those horrible looking antenna lines and fugly protruding camera phone
I'm thinking there won't be much need for a 4"/SE version to go along with the iPhone 8. If the rumors are true, the bezels will shrink so much that the 4.7" screen won't be in a much larger phone than the current SE.
I've got Amazon's $60 Blu R1 HD smartphone headed to me in the mail today. I'm going to check that out. But if it is a competent phone and it is readily available in the U.S., I've got a feeling that Apple is going to have to start lowering its prices. I think the SE at $399 was the start of that process and that this launch will launch at lower price points than last year.
I also wonder what the heck other Android phone makers are going to do to compete against a decent Amazon phone which is given away nearly free.
I also wonder what the heck other Android phone makers are going to do to compete against a decent Amazon phone which is given away nearly free.
This^ I could care less about camera bumps and antenna lines. I look for software, battery and camera improvements. Sure, I would appreciate hardware advances, but in the end, you will look past this. iPhone 7, day one purchase.
It's only a threat if people are willing to tolerate all the ads. They may be. I wouldn't. But if it results in a lower iPhone price, I'm happy it exists.
I don't know... That dual camera looks really good to me. It's that single camera that is bugging me: stupid pimple-crater looking thing.I just walked into the Apple Store and launch day and bought two. They had plenty. Maybe it was because I was in Cow Hampshire.
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1986 called, they want their dated designs back.....and that counter top as well!
Same here! Beats me why the look would be important at all.
I never buy things for show or because i get tired of a look.
Functions and what I do with it is ALWAYS #1 reason.
Wondering how many of the form complainers put a case on it anyway,
which means the design doesn't even matter.
But then, people like to waste money.
What I do know is that the current iPhone generation is very slippery and of course anybody who appreciates design has to agree the 4/4S was the best design (Rams inspired)
Plus, since the iPhone is at the end of its life cycle I will switch when the 8S is around with hopefully 512GB.
September 2018.
Form follows function.
That's a legitimate philosophy to designing stuff, so I don't really see a problem.
The 4 was the last model where I remember people being blown away by the features revealed at the keynote. HD video camera, FaceTime, Retina Screen, FaceTime - it was just a quantum leap from everything else out there.
Hard to do that in today's age, but it would be nice to get SOMETHING that seemed like an upgrade
Hopefully they will come up with an SE upgrade next spring, so we will have a fresh 4" phone.
Well you can spend another $50 and buy it without ads on the lock screen. So it is a $110 ad free phone. Still very cheap. I understand that the camera is crap. That would be the deal breaker for me to have it as my only phone. But since I carry two and one is always going to be an iPhone with a great camera, I don't care about some features on my second phone.
In any case, I think it is a major threat to all the android manufacturers. It is also a bit of a threat to Apple, but of course you aren't going to get iOS on it so there will always be that major differentiator even if some aspects of the hardware are comparable.
That's a good theory. I'm not sure how I'd feel about it, because I think the bezels serve good functional purposes like being able to hold the device without obscuring the screen, and I prefer having the physical home button, but they are things that might be solvable, I guess we'll see, and it'll depend on just how radical the iPhone 8 design is.