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'iPhone 8' Renders Offer Direct Size Comparisons With iPhone 7 and Galaxy S8
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Make it thicker then. Somehow Apple was able to manufacture much smaller-sized phones with perfectly reasonable battery life in the past. Has the advantage of making the phone more difficult to bend as well.
It's an OLED display so even if it looks like this, they can make the top black to match the 'lip' and still put battery, carrier, etc. info in. And if they were concerned about summetry they could add a similar function/info bar to the bottom.
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That's just the look of the hardware, but the software will hide the 'lip' with black space on the sides occupied with battery, carrier and other info.
I doubt this... All the rumors suggesting this and zero rumors to something resembling a brick type phone.
We already have the SE for that. Plus the rumors are a 'one sided' if its supposed to be even.
There is NO way that those ugly ears/handles up top will be any other color than black with carrier and other info like that on top. This is actually genius since right now that info on our current iPhones is taking up screen real estate if you look at it. By doing this Apple is essentially giving us even MOAR screen! Win/win. Now I do believe they will make it even and add a small bezel on the bottom as well. The screen won't go all the way down like that. Save this comment folk 
I'd rather have a small bezel at the top and bottom instead of that cutout portion at the time for the camera and speaker. Is that simply going to be a blank area for apps, games and movies or will there be a virtual border there?
Nevertheless, it otherwise looks great and I'll probably get one.
Nevertheless, it otherwise looks great and I'll probably get one.
Iphone edition X is the best name for this one off iphone.
Next year they could introduce iphone 8 edition or iphone 8 pro.
I wouldn't be surprised if they end up going with that cutout up top. I'd prefer that over the samsung bottom and top thin bezels. I just hope the sides have more of squared off approach like the 5's design rather than the rounded sides of the 6 and 7.
If the cutout is true, I'd imagine Apple would use the left and right areas for status information. When you play a video, you'll get black bars at the top and bottom for a symmetrical look that'll fit 16:9 videos.
However, I'm not exactly sure how non video apps will work in landscape mode.
I'm a fan of it being shorter than the SG8 but would prefer it be less wide. Hopefully iPhone 8 will to be closer to a 16:9 ratio instead of going with an extra long screen (which seems like a waste of space. I like having as little in my pocket as possible.
Oh, No
And this was the device aligning up with my iPhone purchase cycle. Me no want.
I've been saying this for years. That would be my dream phone. I think something slightly wider and a bit shorter than the current iPhone SE that is all display is the ultimate phone. I guess it depends on what aspect ratio we end up with on this new iPhone Edition or whatever, but I don't see any need to make the display elongated like some of these renders do, but maybe they have some kind of Touch Bar type functionality.
Top row, middle iPhone 8 rendering looks perfect to me. That's what I would call the sweet spot in design.
Now that the OCD guys is gone, why not? Not that I like doing it in this particular case.
Yeah that weirdly shaped screen is not going to be a thing. It's not balanced with the rest of the phone at all and we all know that Jony Ive would burn out the bearings on every one of his exquisitely machined aluminium fidget spinners over that tragedy...View attachment 701629
That upper ^^^^^^^^ camera and earpiece grill cutout from display looks ugly to be honest.Apple will never make it like that.
In comparison with Bezel less model iPhone 7 Plus looks so bulky and outdated with those massive bezels
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"Applesuppliers TSMC confirmed Apple had successfullyintegrated Touch ID fingerprint recognition into the OLED display." :- Macrumors Said
This will be huge win win for me. Never liked the idea of rear touch id
I agree, and it would' t have to be assymetrical, that part/corners of the screen could always be black and have carrier info, Bluetooth , WiFi, etc info on it, you won' t even see that it is a part of the mainscreen, except that it will have letters and signs in white on it. It is brilliant, it will give more real usable screen area and will give you the impression that it is an all screen iphone.
I created a rough mockup of how I think they're gonna do the notification bar, which is basically stacking it. Seems plausible.
I don't forsee this type of design with Apple with the bezel bulge at all. It's not traditional and it doesn't seem like that would fall in line with their design pattern over the years with the iPhone. I highly doubt this seems realistic to me. It's just another render to throw in the pile and ultimately wait for more reported iPhone leaks.