Problem is, they've already changed it in not giving the iPhone 7 a new form factor.
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iphone 8? ten year anniversary?
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Problem is, they've already changed it in not giving the iPhone 7 a new form factor.
You, Me, and Vast Number of others are happily passing on the placeholder iPhone 7, in favor of next year's Tenth Anniversary iPhone.
Make no mistake, it doesn't matter what model name they use, it doesn't matter what features it has or doesn't have...
It'll be the Epic Tenth Anniversary iPhone!
What cycle? They already broke their traditional pattern this year by giving us the same design 3 years in a row.
Same design? What else do you want?
Smartphones are rectangles 7-8mm thick. You'll have to live with the idea for many years to come. And guess what, the iPhone 8 will be a rectangle 7-8mm thick.
Admit it. All you want is a new material, which is not a new design.
Smartphones are rectangles 7-8mm thick. You'll have to live with the idea for many years to come. And guess what, the iPhone 8 will be a rectangle 7-8mm thick.
Admit it. All you want is a new material, which is not a new design.
No ceramic iPhone?
They have patent in for a ceramic phone
http://www.patentlyapple.com/.a/6a0120a5580826970c01bb093469de970d-pi
They have patents for many, many things, but the point is we have gotten no actual rumors suggesting a ceramic iPhone (unlike no dedicated home button, glass back, OLED, edge to edge screen, etc.). It's currently a pipe dream. Otherwise, you'd find it in MR iPhone 8 roundup.
Fair enough, my main point though is I strongly suspect that the big new changes everyone is hoping for will be reserved for a premium, higher cost model, whilst the normal year on year changes will come in a 7s/7s+ form.
That's what the rumors suggest as well. Some people are insisting that it'll still be called 7s/7s Plus, but they're likely to give the new form factor a different name. The rumors are suggesting three models, as you pointed out.
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Like I said before I don't think it will be a redesign. What more can they do. Technically the 7 was a redesign. The antennas were moved. No more headphone jack. I know that almost nothing but it still is different. I'm. It sure what design change apple can do beside shrink the bezel and make it a tad smaller. Other than that the design will still be a rectangle. I believe next year will be the 7s like always.
No more than the iPhone 5 was a "redesign" relative to the 4/4s, but it was a new form factor. The 7 is keeping the same form factor as the 6/6s series.
Face it, Apple has broken the cycle in not giving the iPhone 7 a new form factor.
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Well I suppose you could say the 5S was a redesign since it had a different home button and a pill shaped flash, but lets be real: the iPhone 5, 5S and SE are the same design just like the 6, 6S and 7 are the same design.
Shrinking the bezels would be a dramatic and very welcome redesign.
I don't think wireless charging is going to work well with the current aluminum shell. Everything I've read suggests that the efficiency losses would be tremendous without some kind of window through the metal.
Scrapping the Home Button would not be a big deal in that it wouldn't mean ditching new tech. Remember that the TouchID sensor has already been in use since 2013 (with some improvements for the 6s version), and the Taptic Engine that makes the "click" can be used independently from a button. The MacBook trackpad is an example of where a whole pane of glass can be used as a "button". What Apple needs is a fingerprint sensor that can be integrated into a display panel.
Of course it isnt hard. Im not upgrading if the iPhone 7 has nothing at all that interests me as a buyer.
The redesign was supposed to be this year but cost and timeframe did not work out. The 8 will be a new design for sure and may come as early as summer 2017...like the old schedule. This 7 should have never happened but they had to release something before the holidays or the stock would have taken a major hit.
D00DS! I just heard a rumor that AFTER the next iPhone (8) Apple has decided to just stop working on everything phone related and let it stand as the best phone of all time. Of ALL TIME! It's a reputable source because it came from the internet. The internets are the best source for rumors.
So you heard it here first: No iPhone 9, no 10, no 11. They stop at 8! The END. iPhone Apocalypse!
It's great news because we won't have to worry about what will be coming next and how awesome the flux titanium sprockets could be. It will just BE. Maybe, if we're lucky, we can finally enjoy the device that is available today instead of always longing for something that isn't out yet.
So you heard it here first: No iPhone 9, no 10, no 11. They stop at 8! The END. iPhone Apocalypse!
It's great news because we won't have to worry about what will be coming next and how awesome the flux titanium sprockets could be. It will just BE. Maybe, if we're lucky, we can finally enjoy the device that is available today instead of always longing for something that isn't out yet.
I don't think both phones will have OLED screen though, there is not enough OLED screen manufacturing capacity in the world to meet Apple demand. If next phone is 10 year edition then it makes sense to call it iPhone 8, since S version was always a minor design changes/tweaks of previous year phone.