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iPhone 8 Shell Render Features Vertical Dual-Lens Camera, iPhone 5-Style Body
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If Apple only releases a 7S in September, their stock should Crash horribly! 4 years using the same design and charging still charging $1000
Why is Mac Rumors persistent in claiming this design is only 'slightly' larger then an iPhone 7, get over it, face the facts no matter how hard you want to believe Max Rumors, it is NOT going to be slightly larger or the same size as the iPhone 7, it is more or less smack bang in between the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.
And this design has one stupid potential Touch ID hole on the back.
And this design has one stupid potential Touch ID hole on the back.
How much bigger does the screen need to be? I'm not a fan of this whole bezel free idea. I prefer somewhere to rest my sausage fingers. For an anniversary iPhone it should be perfected in every area and it should retain the essence of the original which includes the home button.
The hole in the back is for the CPU fan 
I've thought about switching over to Android but I'm trapped by iOS. The amount of money I've spent on Apps is too much to lose out on. I would be disgusted.
If Touch ID moves to the back I expect that there will be some other way to unlock the phone...
The hole in the back is for the CPU fan
Maybe that's part of their glucose monitoring for diabetes by sticking a finger in the spinning fan. Guilty of having done that myself.
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/12/apple-secret-team-diabetes-research/
The iPhone S8, by Sampple. What a great company. They really know how to innovate. Say what you want, but this is happening. This is what the iPhone looks like in 2017. The size compared to the Apple Watch charging puck isn't even close. Are you serious? You people are delusional, and you might as well get used to it now. It's a fingerprint scanner.
I understand that it's in the best interests of the rumor mill to keep the "mystery" and fuel arguments. But it's so obvious.
Hilarious. So now we get a Samsung phone without the flexibility of Android to even soothe the wounds...nice. Tim Cocking it up again.
I understand that it's in the best interests of the rumor mill to keep the "mystery" and fuel arguments. But it's so obvious.
Hilarious. So now we get a Samsung phone without the flexibility of Android to even soothe the wounds...nice. Tim Cocking it up again.
I don't know why some are still clinging to "the hole on the back is an inductive charging port!"
Um, do you not understand how large the inductive coils are? That's a fingerprint scanner hole man. 100%.
Samsung couldn't integrate the FP scanner into the glass....looks like Apple is suffering the same engineering challenge.
Um, do you not understand how large the inductive coils are? That's a fingerprint scanner hole man. 100%.
Samsung couldn't integrate the FP scanner into the glass....looks like Apple is suffering the same engineering challenge.
it will in the sense it's suppose to be a much smaller device with a bigger screen
TLDR
The courageous thing here would be to put the TouchID on a dongle!
The courageous thing here would be to put the TouchID on a dongle!
remember the camera bump and ugly antenna lines, and not wishing it were real.
well, this is tim's apple, of course.
well, this is tim's apple, of course.
And yet if Apple releases a new phone that doesn't have smaller bezels everyone will absolutely crucify them. Let's face it the tech press has decided the #1 must have with phones right now is reduced bezels. That's all that matters.
So, a new version of the best iphone design yet - 5/SE - that, unlike the 5/SE could possibly use most of the real estate on the front?
I'm in.
And as far as the button on the back goes, it took me about an hour to get used to the LG layout when I first got it. I think it's ideal since the back panel buttons are approximately where your index finger is anyway. Much more natural and intuitive, although on the LG that is the power and volume. My antique G3 doesn't have touch ID. Still, the touch ID on the front is more - how did somebody phrase it here? - contorted than putting it on the back.
But it's not reduced bezels for the sake of fashion - it's phone size to screen size ratio. What matters is functionality and (size) efficiency - easy to fit in your pocket and use one handed with maximum display size.
I'm in.
And as far as the button on the back goes, it took me about an hour to get used to the LG layout when I first got it. I think it's ideal since the back panel buttons are approximately where your index finger is anyway. Much more natural and intuitive, although on the LG that is the power and volume. My antique G3 doesn't have touch ID.
Still, the touch ID on the front is more - how did somebody phrase it here? - contorted than putting it on the back.But it's not reduced bezels for the sake of fashion - it's phone size to screen size ratio. What matters is functionality and (size) efficiency - easy to fit in your pocket and use one handed with maximum display size.
I imagine wireless charging through a Faraday cage (solid aluminum shell) could be tricky so the little hole in the center could be for that. I'd expect the cutout for the Apple logo to be used for that though, just like car makers are using a flat logo (instead of a 3D badge) to hide the radar sensors behind it.
I'd welcome the old school shell, to me the current iPhones are terrible to hold with their slippery round edges. I'd love it if the SE phones lagged a year behind and in a smaller, more affordable package. I'd really like 3D touch on my iPhone SE, other than that it's perfect for me.
I'd welcome the old school shell, to me the current iPhones are terrible to hold with their slippery round edges. I'd love it if the SE phones lagged a year behind and in a smaller, more affordable package. I'd really like 3D touch on my iPhone SE, other than that it's perfect for me.