Is it really that confusing? Competitors can have like 10+ models at any given time.
Don't be silly, it removed the headphone jack, how can you add an "s" to it
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iPhone 8 to Feature All-Glass Casing in Order to Support Wireless Charging
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Is it really that confusing? Competitors can have like 10+ models at any given time.
Don't be silly, it removed the headphone jack, how can you add an "s" to it
.I hate Johnny Ive's direction more every year. Humans enjoy and can use buttons easily. I don't need my device to be an inscrutable obelisk, I need it to work without having to look at it every time. Buttons allow instant feedback even in the dark. Ergonomic design does not mean reduction of buttons.
I would love wireless charging. I have had it for several years on my Android phones. It is is very convenient to set your phone down and pick it up a little later knowing is fully charged.
I am less sure about a glass only phone. I prefer something more rugged. Perhaps they can try carbon fiber or some other material.
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My android phones and tablets can be charged with their cases on.
I am less sure about a glass only phone. I prefer something more rugged. Perhaps they can try carbon fiber or some other material.
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My android phones and tablets can be charged with their cases on.
sorry but it seems like anything the iphone doesn't have is a gimmick...until the iphone has it a few years later then...wow what innovation.....
Kinda like waterproofing.....i love my 7+ because it finally has a great camera I can take hiking without worry it will get wet (always around streams and lakes) or snowed on. No more having to wrap it in a plastic bag or just leave it at home for one of my other phones.
I wish people would stop fantasizing about those edge to edge screen iPhone mockups. Its not going to happen and it shouldn't. Even the Android devices out noe that go close to edge to edge are difficult to pick up, without activating icons along the aides. It just doesn't work.
Yes.
iPhone 7S 4.7"
iPhone 7S 5.5"
iPhone Pro (all glass, with OLED, new design, very premium price). Or iPhone X
That's my prediction of next year's line-up.
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I don't think it's a case of "if Apple doesn't have it, it's a gimmick", but the fact that wireless charging that requires a wire and a charging pad isn't exactly wireless. Even if everywhere you go, there are charging pads, the current process requiring you set down your phone and effectively not be able to use it, is just not a convenient process.
If Apple simply takes the same solution to wireless charging, I'll say the exact opposite - that they're going the wrong direction.
It is required to get the bezel down to close to zero. And you know full well that getting rid of the bezel is the number one priority here in these forums.
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You don't glass but you do need to get rid of metal. So glass or plastic it is.
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You didn't. But you should have because you know full well that a plastic iPhone would be paned widely.
Sure they have 10x as many models and only a tenth of Apple's profits. This looks like some sort of correlation.
Something tells me their profitability wasn't down to customers getting confused by model numbers. More likely the correlation of more models is down to poor sales.
Simplicity of the model line, easy recognition of a phone as an iPhone due to this, resale value all contributed to Apple's success in terms of sales at high prices. Not offering cheap entry-level phones does help the brand value. Same applies on the Mac line-up, fewer models and significantly higher average prices do go hand-in-hand.
If Apple can provide a solution that will wirelessly charge my iphone from anywhere in my house....I am all for it of course. Have you used wireless charging in it's current form? It is pretty nice and convenient tbh.
What exactly are you expecting? The devices have matured. They are essentially a touch screen with a camera. It's all about the software now, with exception to the internals.
Lightning can offer USB3 speeds (so far only implemented on the 12.9" iPad Pro). And the EU rule originally specified micro-USB as the standard. And it wasn't a hard rule, it was an industry agreement that staved off a legally binding rule. Moreover, 'adaptors' were considered as complying with this 'rule'. This all started when phones came with a charging block with a non-detachable cable (and differing connectors at the cable end). Shipping a charger that allowed using it on a different phone with the help of a separate cable (eg, any charger with a USB-A port on the charging block) was considered as complying.
That said, USB-C would be helpful in that a USB-C to USB-C would be all you might ever need at some point in the future (unless you needed speeds even higher than 10 Gbit/s for which you then needed an active, aka TB3, cable). Not only for charging or synching to a computer but also to connect all kinds of peripherals to an iOS device (currently, you still need a Lightning to USB(-A) adaptor).
Really! A charging station, I thought Samsung already did that, you called that innovation? Poor Apple you're taking things that they already been done and giving then a new style. Let me tell you something, i am not a fan of Samsung ecosystem but if he wasn't for the failure of the note 7. Apple would be in big trouble selling the iPhone 7. By next year if you do not blow everyone away with something amazing, Apple is done!
I like glass but glass really doesn't like the floor.
Hopefully apple has a new material in the works that is not glass, it'd be super nice to have a phone that doesn't have anodised scratch prone aluminium or glass that shatters into shards. I do remember when phones were made from plastic and had no issues apart from feeling cheap.
A polymer or something new that can be polished into the glass edge for zero join lines would be super cool and easy to make water resistant. In the end a case will be slapped on all designs i personally hated the iPhone 4 all glass design and want to see that avoided in the next gen.
Hopefully apple has a new material in the works that is not glass, it'd be super nice to have a phone that doesn't have anodised scratch prone aluminium or glass that shatters into shards. I do remember when phones were made from plastic and had no issues apart from feeling cheap.
A polymer or something new that can be polished into the glass edge for zero join lines would be super cool and easy to make water resistant. In the end a case will be slapped on all designs i personally hated the iPhone 4 all glass design and want to see that avoided in the next gen.
I really hope it ends up being extended- range charging. I'm not at all interested in a charging pad.