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iPhone 8 Said to Pack Battery Capacity of Current 5.5-Inch Model Into 4.7-Inch Form Factor
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The iPhone 7 is essentially 6" diagonally corner to corner. If you imagine a bezel-less 5.8" screen it more or less fits.
Are you kidding? If they raise the price too high people will stop buying it. Innovation can't overrule price all the time.
I think to truly please all we'd also need to see a 5" bezel-less iPhone which would essentially be the size of the current SE.
Yes of course they are, as you said it is silly to think otherwise. But it's not something they would have immense focus in pushing to market, but then again there aren't many things that they would do that with.
You're right. Not on this board. Read 5 posts today that seemed positive...until this kind of $&)@ shows up.
Perhaps even 4. But it could also be only 2.
There are rumors about a 5.0-5.2 iphone and about a 5.8 inch iphone with oled.
I don' t know how apple will handle this:
-2x iphone 7s( reg and plus)
-2x iphone 8/x (5.0 and 5.8)
Or
1x iphone 7s(4.7 inch only), kind of mid to high end.
1x iphone 8/x 5.1 inch, high end
1x iphone 8/x 5.8 inch, ultra high end
I really can' t see apple not releasing the new iphone 8/x plus in more than 5.1 inches, considering the succes of the 7 plus.
And i mean with at least an 5.5 inch active screen area. I read some posts here and i am hoping it won' t be 18:9 5.8 inch with curves fit into a 4.7 inch footprint with a real active area of 5.1 inch.
Or we are getting rumors , that are mixed up with the 2017 iphones and the 2018 iphones.
And i think that is what happening here.
Apple will release a 5.8 inch iphone 8/x this year and next year they' ll Also release a 5.0 with new improved battery tech.
Some people have more money than sense. If the iPhone goes up even $1 I am out, it is already expensive and Apple easily makes HUGE profit from these, there is no reason the price needs to go up. Unless that reason is pure greed.
I'm sold!
This years iPhone has alread topped my hype from iPhone 6.
September can't come soon enough.
This years iPhone has alread topped my hype from iPhone 6.
September can't come soon enough.
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Yeah... Likely from people who don't have much going on in their lives. The only way to feel good about themselves and validate where they are is to let loose with a tiny whine.
Apple has been investing in battery technology and we're seeing the fruits of that.
iPhone 7-like size with iPhone 7 Plus-like battery life would sell me on the 8 anyway. Add in OLED and all the other rumored goodies and ohhhhhh boy.
Happiness comes with expectations. Most of our expectations are measured by what we know and already is on the market today. If those expectations aren't met in reality you'll get disappointed. The reality today is that a premium brand as Apple doesn't deliver what most of it's competitors are doing for years. So you have to ask yourself why are you paying so much money when you could have the same for far less.... that's the question you should ask yourself (myself included). The question to ask Apple: why are you selling old hardware for todays prices and why are you asking premium prices because you set expectations to premium as well.
You can get the Moto Maxx. It was one of the worst selling smartphones in history, because very few people are willing to trade weight/thickness for longer battery life, and most of those who do are happy buying battery cases that have the advantage of being removable.
We don't know that either.
If it was easy to pull new technologies out of a sock drawer we'd all do that.
If you don't believe that, then that's fine. And also that's not true with a lot of what Apple does because they would want to preserve new technologies for future models. I am not saying that we should see it this year, or even next year, but I think that it has great potential and the number of better battery alternatives is increasing every year.
Yea, this isn't true. You are going to step up and buy a new iPhone even if the price increases. And it doesn't matter how much profit Apple makes, only whether the phone is good value. You can get crappy phones sold with such low margins the phone manufacturer makes almost nothing on them, but you'd rather get the best phone with the best software.
When phone service is $500 a year, balking over paying a few bucks extra for a phone you will use for two years is silly.
My iPhone 7+ gets really good battery life. For me it lasts 2 days on a full charge. I welcome this to be the new standard.
If you are saying that your battery only lasts 7 hrs under normal conditions, then you have an issue with your hardware, software, or both. The only time I see performance like that is when using the phone in GPS navigation mode (GPS running, navigation calculating, screen on full time). But that is not what I'd call normal conditions. More accurately a specialized condition that requires additional power to support. It is a multipurpose phone unit, after all. Not a dedicated GPS nav unit or fitness tracker, but I digress.
This rumor, if true, gives me hope Apple's design team may be getting it now.
The thinness fetish at the cost of things that matter: battery life first and foremost, but also better displays, better cameras and to a lessor extent speed, are what we want from these mobile computers.
Yes, thinness matters to a point, but not at the cost of the other vectors—especially when most people put their iPhones in a case negating the 2mm Apple manages to shave off.
Edge to edge glass, better display, faster, and much longer battery life is a winner for iPhone 8. I'd upgrade instantly, regardless of price.
The thinness fetish at the cost of things that matter: battery life first and foremost, but also better displays, better cameras and to a lessor extent speed, are what we want from these mobile computers.
Yes, thinness matters to a point, but not at the cost of the other vectors—especially when most people put their iPhones in a case negating the 2mm Apple manages to shave off.
Edge to edge glass, better display, faster, and much longer battery life is a winner for iPhone 8. I'd upgrade instantly, regardless of price.
Ok, why not 5 mm thicker? Or 10 mm thicker? Think of it, the battery could last a full week.
Put it like this, everybody has a battery capacity which would get her or him through a full day 95% of the time. Maybe for 75% of all iPhone users that is achieved with the current battery capacity. Add one millimetre and that number goes up to 80%, add 5 mm and that number goes up to 95%. There will always be people who would be happy with just one more millimetre of device thickness (with the implication that this increased thickness goes to battery capacity).
You seem to imply that thinness serves nothing but the vanity of Apple. But I think deep down you know that that is not the case. Thinness also appeals to customers, it reduces weight, it improves handholdability.
I know, lol. Like Apple sits around twiddling their thumbs, 'meh, batteries are good enough. Oh wait, we accidentally redesigned them to fit the Macbook."
Are you implying that for a majority of iPhone users the battery only last until the afternoon? Or are you implying that because for your usage pattern, the battery only last until the afternoon, iPhones should be 50% thicker because you simply do not care if that would mean the majority of iPhone users would literally have to carry around dead weight?
What's interesting is that their premium iPhone 8 will actually be smaller than their plus models. Those folks who love small phones will be ecstatic.