iPhone 7 May Feature Flush Camera, Stereo Speakers and Thinner Lightning Port

[PlainviewX]

Great, I'd have to buy more ****ing cables to replace the ones in my bedroom, living room, car and office.

 

[doelcm82]

Insanity. Hope these rumors are wrong. Glad I bought a 6s, I would not want a phone without a headphone jack; without it, you could not listen and charge the device at the same time, not to mention the ubiquity of the 3.5mm jack. Foolish. Observe sales crater if this turns out to be the case.

I'm glad you bought a 6s, too. There will be ways to listen and charge at the same time. There will even be ways to listen through earphones and charge at the same time. I expect the iPhone 7 to be the best-selling iPhone ever (or rather the best-selling iPhone so far).

What is their freakin' obsession with thinness? Keep the 1mm and provide better battery life!

It's a dedication to thinness.

Coming out with a 7 "pro" where the only difference is a dual-lens camera would just be stupid.

So all they need to do is have one additional difference on the "pro" model.

 

[Thunderhawks]

these are just rumors.
I don' t mind about the 3.5 mm, but I also don' t care about a second speaker.

I am not worried about the soc either.
Apple has shown large improvements with all new releases.

Like the fact there will be no lines on the back and a flush camera.

I am just worried about the design and the screen.

I really hope the rumors about the dimensions (width, height)of the unibody iPhone 7 are not true.
It would mean that the large chins and bezels wil still be the same as the 6/s+.
Or they would have to increase screen size to 4.9 and 5.7 inch to shrink the bezels.
They could, but they also should bring a new 4 to 4.2 inch iPhone 7 for people that want a smaller iPhone , or the se is so advanced, they won' t have to.

Now the screen itself. I really hope the 4.7 inch gets a minimal res of 1920x1080 and the 5.5 inch of 2560x1440.
But Apple always goes for a thin design, which has the cost of lower batter life.
So my guess is they wil go for 1704x960 and 2208x1242 at the most. And that would be a shame.

I like the rumors of the iPhone pro though, but they would have to add more than just a better/dual lens camera.
The pro should have a better soc with more memory, faster gpu, a way to multitask/split screen.
And a smaller footprint , by making in screen touchid, in screen home button by 3D Touch, etc.
if we are gonna pay more for it, they have to deliver the latest tech.

Actually the pro is what Apple needs to maintain margins . It would have to be cutting edge tech that can' t ship in large quantities right now, has low yields, so is expensive right now.
By starting to produce this cutting tech for the iPhone pro , the yields will improve over time, and will be cheaper to produce in time.
This way Apple will be able to implement this tech in the next gen cheaper, "non-pro"' iPhones and maintain margins.

This is the only way to push innovation in iPhones for Apple and maintain their so precious margins.

You don' t have to like it, but that is just the way Apple works.

If they shrank the iPadPro to a phone size that would be the winner.
People could even use a (pardon me) stylus, em Apple Pencil.

 

[doelcm82]

Great, I'd have to buy more ****ing cables to replace the ones in my bedroom, living room, car and office.

Why would you have to buy more cables?

 

[Gudi]

Why would you have to buy more cables?

Because no reading comprehension.

 

[sinsin07]

Why would you have to buy more cables?

Because reading the article and comprehending its meaning is too difficult.
Much easier to jump to conclusions.
Whining on the Internet is a pastime.

 

[PlainviewX]

Because no reading comprehension.

I concur.
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Why would you have to buy more cables?

Because I made an idiotic, knee jerk reaction to a headline and failed to read?

 

[nilk]

nope.. it's always been because of apple's obsession with thinness. form over function. they could've added a bigger battery instead, and that would've made the camera lens flush. looks like they still haven't learned if the rumor of the 7 being even thinner is true..

I may be in the minority here, but I want my phone to be thinner and, more specifically, lighter. I enjoyed the iPhone 6's thinness and it's weight, so much so that I felt the difference when going to a 6s and didn't like the feel as much (6s is a dramatically better phone, though, so I'm overall happier, but that is the one and only complaint I had in upgrading).

I actually want to switch to the plus model next, but the current model is too big and I'd like it to be smaller in whatever way can be achieved. I want the plus model to be thinner, lighter, and/or smaller dimensions so that there is less phone to hold. Hopefully they can trim off some of the bezels, which would help.

The 6 and 6s do fine with battery life for my use case, and that is with me often playing a game that using GPS constantly. I only need to charge every 1.5 days. If I didn't play that game, I could easily go 2 days without a charge. I imagine the plus model will last 2 or more days without a charge with my current usage. I don't want more battery if it means making the phones thicker or heavier.

 

[gaximus]

Thinner phone - hell no!

If battery and all other things the same, why wouldn't you want a thinner phone?

 

[Jbs541]

ATTENTION MR READERS: the Lightning Port is not changing. The cutout is getting smaller. It will not effect your current cables or accessories, and you will still be able to use all of them.

People simply can't read nowadays.

 

[co.ag.2005]

I would love if they also ditched the vibration button and create a toggle for CC. As I've stated before, that's one less hardware thing that could eventually break.

I actually prefer the hardware toggle. I can switch the phone to silent while it's in my pocket. It's handy for those quick impromptu meetings at work where I can switch the phone to silent while walking into the meeting and not having to fish my phone out of my pocket.

 

[aPple nErd]

can't tell if serious

Glad to see Apple leading the way with innovations like stereo sound.

 

[KPandian1]

If battery and all other things the same, why wouldn't you want a thinner phone?

Because the feel in ones hand of holding something substantial is not the only point - the damned thin ones slip from easily.

I've held scalpels that do fine work which give you a good grip while enabling the finest work.

Every mm increase in thickness, by the way, also enables a better battery. We are not yet there at 10nm layered batteries!

 

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Apple are now repeating the mistakes of the pre Jobs era, there is simply too many SKU's for their products, in this case the iPhone and iPad line, they need simplified.

While Apple don't officially sell the 5c it is still available from carriers, but being a non tech savvy consumer who wants an iPhone or iPad must be a confusing experience now. Numerous iPad mini's, two iPad Air's, an iPad Pro and possibly a 9.7" iPad Pro to supersede the Air line up.

As for iPhone you'll have the 5c, 5s, SE, 6, 6 Plus, 6s, and 6s Plus all available to you depending on where you shop.

The product line up needs simplified, massively.

Old stock is irrelevant. The choice isn't that hard. Do you want the newest features or basic model? Big or small? What color? Here is your new phone!

 

[citysnaps]

ATTENTION MR READERS: the Lightning Port is not changing. The cutout is getting smaller. It will not effect your current cables or accessories, and you will still be able to use all of them.

Oh man... Why'd go and do that? I was dying laughing watching everyone getting so frothed up.

 

[ThisBougieLife]

Getting rid of the headphone jack is a stupid idea--really hope they don't do that.

 

[HVDynamo]

About time Apple got rid of the headphone jack. Personally I haven't used it a single time since I got my iPhone 6 Plus.

I've used mine on my 6S that I bought in January several times. If that port goes away it's a deal breaker for me.

 

[brunosh]

Apple are now repeating the mistakes of the pre Jobs era, there is simply too many SKU's for their products, in this case the iPhone and iPad line, they need simplified.

While Apple don't officially sell the 5c it is still available from carriers, but being a non tech savvy consumer who wants an iPhone or iPad must be a confusing experience now. Numerous iPad mini's, two iPad Air's, an iPad Pro and possibly a 9.7" iPad Pro to supersede the Air line up.

As for iPhone you'll have the 5c, 5s, SE, 6, 6 Plus, 6s, and 6s Plus all available to you depending on where you shop.

The product line up needs simplified, massively.

Totally agree! The product naming is a big mess.

 

[BenTrovato]

I actually prefer the hardware toggle. I can switch the phone to silent while it's in my pocket. It's handy for those quick impromptu meetings at work where I can switch the phone to silent while walking into the meeting and not having to fish my phone out of my pocket.

Same here. If my phone goes off in a meeting and I have to touch the screen to change the setting, that's horrendous. It's already humiliating, every millisecond it takes to make sure it doesn't happen again makes it worse. Rather have the physical toggle for sound.

Getting rid of the headphone jack is a stupid idea--really hope they don't do that.

I agree. I hope they don't remove it!

 

[That70sGAdawg]

If the "stereo speakers" are going to be both on the bottom - It's a TOTAL waste. Apple is WAY behind on speakers already (see HTC the last 4 years)...

 

[Flow39]

Oh man... Why'd go and do that? I was dying laughing watching everyone getting so frothed up.

lol Sorry to ruin all the fun!

 

[Mr. Buzzcut]

True if you're about over-ear headphones. Earbuds however, if the weakest link fails you just gotta chuck them in the bin sadly.

Not necessarily but the cost isn't any better.

http://www.shure.com/americas/products/accessories/earphones-headphones/earphone-headphone-cables

 

[naeS1Sean]

How could the lightning port be thinner, yet still fit the current ones...?

 

[journeyy]

"You can always be thinner, look better"

 

[ValO]

We all think that we know what Apple is going to do, but I think this could go different, Apple style!

Think about this:

iPhone 7: 4.3-4.5 inch 16 gb base at 599-649
iPhone 7+: 4.9 -5.1 inch base 16 gb at 749
iPhone 7 Pro: 5.5-5.8 inch 32gb base at 899

We all think the iPhone 7 will be bigger than the 6 or is the same size.
Apple could pull another rabbit out of his hat .

They think different(but most of asp and margins though).

with the se, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s+, they would have all bases covered.