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'iPhone 7' Thickness Likely to Approach iPod Touch
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Surely its only a matter of time before a manufacturer somewhere starts introducing a 'thicker' model, so they can see what consumers really want. How many people would go for a "iPhone 7x" or a "Galaxy S7x" which was 2-3mm thicker, but had far superior battery life? I know I would.
I predict also that...
It'll be the fastest iPhone yet
It'll have the best screen of any iPhone
It'll have the best camera
etc etc.
This analyst lark is easy, sign me up!
It'll be the fastest iPhone yet
It'll have the best screen of any iPhone
It'll have the best camera
etc etc.
This analyst lark is easy, sign me up!
Annoying to you and a few others perhaps. Although I acknowledge the camp between battery vs thinness is firmly divided, as long as Tim Cook keeps Apple's philosophy alive, which I hope, thinness will always win out.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I want to see an iPhone as thin as a few credit cards one day. Make it happen Tim!
What philosophy? Providing the best experience for customers? Poor battery life is not the "best experience". Think different? Thinking different would mean perhaps forgoing slimming down the iPhone and instead adding super battery life.
Philosophy as in simply look at Apple's history. Every single one of their successful product lines, from the iMac, to the iBook and MacBook, even right down to their most professional Mac, the Mac Pro, have undergone years of thinning out. A philosophy spearheaded by Steve. And I hope the trend continues.
Battery life has remained consistent over the past 8 years while design has continuously thinned out and that's fine by me.
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Thin boring slabs pretty much sums up every phone, I don't even see how it is beneficial to have the current design on everything. I don't browse the internet, I don't watch video and I don't play games on my phone, they're just not fun experiences when doing that stuff on a PC/TV is much better. All I ever use my phone for when it comes to video is a quick 5 min Youtube video here or there and streaming to Chromecast, which you don't need a big thin slab to do.
I text, call, take pictures, use it as an MP3 player, a tracker and to look up quick information.
For me the camera and one handed use is the most important thing, but not even the iPhone 6 provides one handed use, I have to shuffle the phone in my hand to reach the far away top corner.
I want the return of phones like the Nokia N93i, a flip phone, with a big camera sensor and optical zoom. You could easily make a lot of that design smaller now, you could put a 4 inch screen on either side, use the front as a keypad and then when it's flipped have a qwerty keyboard like a Blackberry. I would love that with a 1 inch sensor...
I text, call, take pictures, use it as an MP3 player, a tracker and to look up quick information.
For me the camera and one handed use is the most important thing, but not even the iPhone 6 provides one handed use, I have to shuffle the phone in my hand to reach the far away top corner.
I want the return of phones like the Nokia N93i, a flip phone, with a big camera sensor and optical zoom. You could easily make a lot of that design smaller now, you could put a 4 inch screen on either side, use the front as a keypad and then when it's flipped have a qwerty keyboard like a Blackberry. I would love that with a 1 inch sensor...
Oh good lord 
....... I certainly hope NOT! I dislike my Touch. Guess gonna keep my 5s....... - love LOVE how it looks and feels - really solid in my hands.
....... I certainly hope NOT! I dislike my Touch. Guess gonna keep my 5s....... - love LOVE how it looks and feels - really solid in my hands.
If you're really not able to plug it into your computer or a charger whilst you work why don't you just carry this in your pocket then? http://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Thin-Portable-External-Lightning-USB-Charged/dp/B00QQ0VHH8/ref=pd_sim_107_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0QXHVMTPHDJTM5KYBWW8&dpSrc=sims&dpST=_AC_UL160_SR160,160_
I mean you did say you wanted it to be thicker, so there you go, you wont mind that extra bulk in your pocket will you, problem sorted - I get a thin phone you get the extra battery you want. After all, there are lots of options to make the phone thicker or carry extra battery power with you - there is no option for me to make the phone thinner.
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Thin boring slabs pretty much sums up every phone, I don't even see how it is beneficial to have the current design on everything. I don't browse the internet, I don't watch video and I don't play games on my phone, they're just not fun experiences when doing that stuff on a PC/TV is much better. All I ever use my phone for when it comes to video is a quick 5 min Youtube video here or there and streaming to Chromecast, which you don't need a big thin slab to do.
I text, call, take pictures, use it as an MP3 player, a tracker and to look up quick information.
For me the camera and one handed use is the most important thing, but not even the iPhone 6 provides one handed use, I have to shuffle the phone in my hand to reach the far away top corner.
I want the return of phones like the Nokia N93i, a flip phone, with a big camera sensor and optical zoom. You could easily make a lot of that design smaller now, you could put a 4 inch screen on either side, use the front as a keypad and then when it's flipped have a qwerty keyboard like a Blackberry. I would love that with a 1 inch sensor...
Nokia were really forward thinking in design when it came to their handsets. The changeable covers were fun, too. I adored my 8310, and have often thought about purchasing one of the old Sirocco handsets, simply for their size and style.
I love having access to everything on my phone but I do sometimes miss how fun it was NOT to have just a big screen.
A FEW credit cards?
I'm expecting iPhone 10 to be precisely the thickness of a credit card, and the right size to hide it inside a Macbook between screen and keyboard. 320x227x0.5 mm!*
*with protruding camera scratching the Macbook screen but hey you can't have everything.
During the keynote the iPhone 10 will be introduced by Anja Rubik.
Make it too thin and it becomes difficult to hold comfortably.
With the iPhone 7, I'd like them to do something with the top & bottom bezels. There's so much wasted space & in 2016 I'm sure they can do something clever with the antennas and home button to reduce the bezels. It would make one-handed operation much more comfortable if they were reduced in size.
With the iPhone 7, I'd like them to do something with the top & bottom bezels. There's so much wasted space & in 2016 I'm sure they can do something clever with the antennas and home button to reduce the bezels. It would make one-handed operation much more comfortable if they were reduced in size.
Its a pretty poor philosophy.. its just a part of their process. Honesty I don't know anyone who thinks the 6 is too thick. Poor battery life however, I know plenty who find iPhone battery life abhorrent. We should really be getting better battery life at this stage, considering how thin things are now. Battery life was pretty dismal to begin with and through my own use of the iPhone 3GS, 4 and 5 and other family members with an iPhone 5S, 6 and 4S, things aren't that great.
Maybe Apple could make the iPhone Air for those who prioritise thinness.
I actually think smaller bezels will be the new thin. It makes sense. More people want the smaller bezels, and they can actually do it if they build Touch ID into the screen and make a home button powered by Force Touch. Plus, they have the same advantages and disadvantages (lighter, smaller battery, etc.) but as @Steve121178 above says, it would be more comfortable to hold.
I travel a lot. I need a phone that I can use all day while on public transport, including planes and out-and-about in the street where charge sockets are not available (and rain/theft is an issue). Sometimes I don't have enough charge sockets at night (or I've had a busy day and forget to charge overnight). Carrying a spare battery is a hassle and means I won't always have it with me (suit pocket, informal coat, travel backpack, jeans etc). So 24 hour guaranteed use would be good, 48 hour would be
great. The current 8-12 hour cycle is OK. Lightness, thinness etc I care much less about, but height/width are issues (the iphone 6 is on the limit of being too big - the 4 was perfect for me).
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a new report that suggests next year's "iPhone 7" could be Apple's thinnest smartphone yet, with a thickness of somewhere between 6.0mm and 6.5mm, which Kuo mentions is a near similar measurement of the current iPod touch's 6.1mm. As a comparison, the current model of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are 6.9mm and 7.1mm thick, respectively.
The report also states that the company will stick to a similar Force Touch technology in next year's version of the iPhone, due to the heavy amount of time and investment Apple and its suppliers have put into adapting it for this year's "iPhone 6s" and "iPhone 6s Plus."
Due to this, Kuo believes that Apple is unlikely to switch from in-cell over to glass-on-glass touch panels next year, which a rumor out of Apple's supply chain in Asia suggested last week. The KGI report says that in-cell panels won't encounter any harsh production bottleneck issues, and that Apple won't be looking to create an iPhone display with a resolution of 4k or higher, so it's more likely for the company to stick with in-cell panels for the time being.
The continued use of in-cell panels would also grant Apple the ability to produce an iPhone as thin as Kuo's suggested 6.0mm-6.5mm size. Although glass-on-glass panels allow for the possibility of a bezel-free iPhone, it also limits the ability for the company to create smaller and thinner smartphones, so if KGI's claim of an iPod Touch-size iPhone is true, it would make most sense for the company to keep using in-cell panels.
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