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iPhone 7 May Use New Packaging Technology for Antenna Switching Module to Save Space
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yes keep on making it thinner while maintaining that f bezel from like 8 years ago. the iPhone is so unnecessary big bc of that it is redic
A retinal projection display would surely attract better, smarter games than the - now declining - bird game.
Apple: DON'T MAKE DEVICES THINNER JUST FOR THE SAKE OF MAKING THEM THINNER
The devices are thin enough. Stop busing everyone's ass to try and come up with ways to make the device thinner. You're creating difficult and unnecessary work for your engineers.
The devices are thin enough. Stop busing everyone's ass to try and come up with ways to make the device thinner. You're creating difficult and unnecessary work for your engineers.
Thinner? I don't see What's In It For Me.
Unfortunately, this thinness fixation seems to be a primary marketing angle Apple feels its consumers want with iPhone. Unfortunately for most Apple tech enthusiasts like us, this tends to be the case for Apple's predominant common-man lemming userbase.
Did you just mistake "antenna switching module" for "antenna lines". Sorry, but totally different things. This article has nothing to do with how the antennas are exposed to the outside world, but instead how the microchip package is done. Internals stuff.
And wow, the complaining about the battery life... spoiled brats.
Indeed classic, if you've been following Apple at all since the early 2000s.
I'm looking forward to my thinner iPhone 7 this fall.
when you think about it, fingers are really just a brain-world interface and overdue for replacement. I think direct neural interface will be ready by version 78. After that the Angry Birds will join us in the matrix for version 79.
No worries! The innovation is there too. Apple is working hard on thinning everything, including battery.
1) iPod Not the first mp3 player.
2) Graphical User Interface - borrowed from Xerox. THEN the next entry on this list was a whole decade later!
3) iMac - Candy-colored cases are an innovation?
4) iTunes - seriously?
5) Mac OS X - it's a Unix front end
6) iPhone - not all that smart for a "smart phone" when it first came out
7) Apple Newton -- nine years after the Mac. Is a nine-year gap acceptable for a LEADER in innovation? If so, then the inclusion of the Apple Watch on this list means you need to wait until at least 2024 before you can credibly claim that Apple innovative days are in the past. Assuming Apple doesn't innovate in the meantime.
8) Apple II -- just four months before the Commodore PET.
9) Keynotes -- Come on! In 1933, we witnessed the unveiling of Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World!
10) MacBook Air -- Thinner! (I thought we hated thinner.)
11) iPad. It's just a big iPhone, without the phone.
12) Apple Watch. So Apple's days of being a leader in innovation ended a little less than a year ago. You're sure there's nothing in the pipeline?
A battery case gets you everything you want, thicker and more battery!.
You can thank me later.
Same huge bezel since original iPhone. Looks like a kids toy. If they don't slim the bezel down I'm prob jumping ship to android. So ridiculous
Yep, it looks like an iPhone, when are they going to change the name toPhone?
10th Anniversary.
Apple hasn't announced the name for this year's flagship phone. It could be iPhone 7. Could be iPhone 6T. Could just be iPhone. Probably won't be iPhone 6SS. Save your disappointment over the name until Apple tells us what the name is. Whatever they call it, I guarantee someone will take offense.
That chart is not really something to be proud of... The improvements besides audio playback are barely there.
I wouldn't like it if they didn't redesign the phone somewhat more than just removing a couple of antenna bands on the back of the phone and making it a little thinner.
With 2-year contract subsidies gone, I don't mind sticking with my iPhone 6 for another year.
Biggest thing I'm looking for is cutting the size of the bezels on the top and bottom of the phone. Especially on the plus model.
With 2-year contract subsidies gone, I don't mind sticking with my iPhone 6 for another year.
Biggest thing I'm looking for is cutting the size of the bezels on the top and bottom of the phone. Especially on the plus model.
Definitely same here, and I really don't think it's popular belief. Sure, it's popular belief amongst internet nerds, like here in Macrumors but I'm inclined to believe the mainstream customer base won't be complaining much about having a thinner and lighter device.
