iPhone 8 Will Have Curved OLED Screen and USB-C Connector

[joy.757]

While the screen itself wouldn't really be a deciding factor for me, USB-C would be awesome!

 

[pratikindia]

$1000+ for a phone is insane.

 

[snicklesnackle]

Wireless.

Wireless.

Wireless!

As soon as wireless charging for iPhone arrives, the only people plugging iPhones into a cable will be fringe cases. And Apple is not going to risk ditching the (perfectly fine for mobile) Lightning connector for a much-riskier USB-C interface.

It's so obvious this is the way it's going. They wouldn't switch to the USB-C for even a couple of years then go wireless, especially when there's nothing wrong with lightning in the first place.

 

[raghu8912]

Lightning was good for its time but I do feel it has now run its course. Hard to believe we've had it for 5 years already.

It really feels like it needs a push to get the USB-C ball rolling. Roll on USB-C for all iDevices and Macs.

I don't see any difference in capability difference between USB-C & Lightning) other than compatibility with other phone chargers.

 

[44267547]

So then there will be some iPhone users who will have to use a USB C to Lightning to 3.5mm adaptor for their headphones?

Apple will just refer you to the AirPods. (Great product by the way.)

 

[Abazigal]

My money is on USB C never coming to the iPhone or iPad and Apple will will continue to use the Lightning port for as long as they need to.

 

[Reno Raines]

Ugh. I just got a lightening set of headphones.

 

[Lankyman]

Not sh**ing you. First one: Screen went yellow on one half while I was charging it and the next day it was unresponsive. Eventually going completely black before I could even get to a sprint store.

Second one: Worked fine for a couple weeks, then woke up one morning after I had left it on the charger all night and the battery indicated 43% left. Next day it didn't happen. Then it started happening regularly where it wouldn't charge fully. Almost every other night this happened.

I called sprint and told them and they paid off my lease and let me have whatever I want. I went with the iPhone and I will probably never look back. Ive never been impressed with Sammy. I had a Note 5 that was a piece of crap as well. My Note 7 ironically was the only Sammy I have owned that I loved and we all know how that ended.

You must be the unluckiest person on the planet. I'd recommend you don't go out in a storm.
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My money is on USB C never coming to the iPhone or iPad and Apple will will continue to use the Lightning port for as long as they need to.

Makes a lot of business sense for them to adopt it. Their sales have reached saturation point. If they adopt it there is a far bigger market for them to go at.

 

[Commentist]

You do realise USB-C solves the exact issue you're citing?

My home, car, train, plane, airport, railway station, hotel, office, laptop, desktops, meeting rooms, and favourite cafe all have USB-A built in.
USB-C to Lightning goes straight into the junk cable drawer...

 

[oldmacs]

lolwut? How would that have been courageous?

Ditching the headphone jack was courageous because they knew they would get hate from people for it but it was the right thing to do.
Apple would get barely any hate for switching to USB-C.

It would have been courageous as it would have been stepping away from all the money they make having lightning.

It wasn't the 'right thing to do' as they did it wrong. It was a cowardly way of further pushing people into propriety connectors for no good reason and no good advantage.

Moving to USB C would bring on a lot of hate from consumers because it wouldn't be an easy move, but it would be the right thing to do.

 

[DCIFRTHS]

To anyone familiar with Samsung devices: Do the curved parts of the screen accept touch input?

 

[dilbert99]

• Lightning is also a standard. And USB-C (for being a "standard") can cause a world of trouble.
• More pins benefits Apple mobile device customers, how?
• Cheaper doesn't mean anything when you're talking about a $700 phone
• 100w, for charging a phone?

Lightning is an Apple proprietary connector
More pins - more channels in the cable, thus more opportunities.
Cheaper is always welcome.
100w, no but does give more options for fast charging, nice to know that your cables can handle more current than a lightning cable.

 

[ValO]

Since when has ANY Apple hardware decision - when it comes to removing stuff benefit consumers? Again, starting all the way back with removing Floppy disks, to removing firewire, to removing the CD Rom drive, etc. every time Apple has made a decision to remove a key component it's been to benefit THEIR bottom line. The only people who continue to applaud this crap are Apple fanboys and tech geeks and it's always, ALWAYS done at the expense of the broader Apple consumers.

Sure they give us BS technical reasons behind the moves, but ultimately it always meant MORE money to Apple Customers who had to spend replacing stuff, buying more expensive macs, etc. It HAD zero to do with consumers.

Sure years later consumers may come around and it ultimately doesn't matter, but don't sit there and act like Apple makes Hardware decisions based solely on whether or not it 'benefits' consumers. Again, look at the Headphone Jack nonsense as a recent example of their arrogance.

I did not say that i approve what apple does with his own connections instead of industrial standards.
I am just saying that this is the way apple operates, why would they change their minds now? What is the benefit for apple?
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Ugh. I just got a lightening set of headphones.

Yeah, that is the other side that people screaming for usb-c are not considering.
When apple would change to usb-c (and they won' t) there are a lot of people that have lightning accesories that will be left in the cold.

 

[Bacillus]

And before Apple adopted the curved screen it was rubbish and a gimmick.. Now once apple has it, it will be the best thing since sliced bread.. You watch how people praise this when 12 months ago all they said it was such garbage.
James

Ah, the problem with Samsung copying everything and launching it 3 years in advance
[doublepost=1488375003][/doublepost]Oh man, such exciting times. Technology at its best.
I vote for the Ultra Accessory Connection
http://9to5mac.com/2017/02/06/apple-ultra-accessory-connector-uac-mfi-made-for-iphone-headphones/
Imagine its potential for a PRO dongle productline:
UAC to 30 pens male
UAC to 30 pens female
UAC to lightning male
UAC to lightning female
UAC to thunderbolt2 male
UAC to thunderbolt2 female
UAC to thunderbolt3 male
UAC to thunderbolt3 female
UAC to minijack male
UAC to minijack female
UAC to USBA male
UAC to USBA female
UAC to USB3 male
UAC to USB3 female
UAC to USB-C male
UAC to USB-C female
UAC to microUSB male
UAC to microUSB female
UAC to USB3camera male
UAC to USB3camera female
UAC to GigabitEthernet male
UAC to GigabitEthernet female
UAC to VGA male
UAC to VGA female
UAC to DisplayPort male
UAC to DisplayPort female
UAC to MiniDPort male
UAC to MiniDPort female
UAC to TTY male
UAC to TTY female
UAC to DVI male
UAC to DVI female
UAC to HDMI male
UAC to HDMI female
UAC to MagSafe male
UAC to MagSafe female
UAC to MagSafe2 male
UAC to MagSafe2 female
UAC to SmartConnector male
UAC to SmartConnector female
UAC to FireWire male
UAC to FireWire female

Sheep customer: Well, that's all ?
Tim: No. We'll have this list times two. There is also UAC female. Diversity !!!

 

[62tele]

I remember when OS X Lion came out, Apple was focused on a "Back to the Mac" campaign to bring several iOS features to the Mac.

I feel it's long overdue that a "Back to iOS" campaign happens, where Apple brings Mac features to iOS.

One more step towards convergence.

This doesn't need to be a jarring change. They can just put some features in there for power users. iOS could become so much better if Apple gave us some control.

I think Cook has pretty much said that's not going to happen. The "power of the Mac and Simplicity of iOs" is how he describes it. The majority of iOS users are not "power" users, whatever that means.

 

[temna]

Does QC stand for Quick Charge? If so, it's fine to plug into those.. it's not like they push too much power into a device. Devices *pull* the power they need. They simply will charge at whatever rate they *can* handle.

Not exactly 100% true, or cheap Chinese chargers wouldn't be causing so many issues with people's phones..
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LOL iPhones. I haven't logged in here since my iphone 4. Happy af Galaxy S6 Edge Plus user signing off

*sigh* Trolls are so amusing.. But considering all the support calls I get over Samsung phones, they really don't compare.. iPhones are WAY better..

 

[Bryan Bowler]

Who cares

A lot of Apple’s customers cares. For years, Apple’s ecosystem was so great because everything worked well together. As it stands now, you need dongles galore for all sorts of things. Just the other day, I was trying to sort out a way to charge my iPhone while driving and play audio through an aux cord at the same time. Took quite a bit of research to find a way to utilize my iPhone to do the things I want it to do. This is becoming a problem across the spectrum of Apple’s products and only seems to be getting worse.

That’s why we care.

 

[sos47]

i want to connect my new apple iphone 2016/17 to my new apple macbook pro 2016/17 without adapter.

i want to connect my sdcard adapter without an adapter-adapter to my apple eco system.

 

[temna]

A lot of Apple’s customers cares. For years, Apple’s ecosystem was so great because everything worked well together. As it stands now, you need dongles galore for all sorts of things. Just the other day, I was trying to sort out a way to charge my iPhone while driving and play audio through an aux cord at the same time. Took quite a bit of research to find a way to utilize my iPhone to do the things I want it to do. This is becoming a problem across the spectrum of Apple’s products and only seems to be getting worse.

That’s why we care.

Except most newer cars have radio/head units that can read an iPhone right over USB. So you plug your iPhone into that USB port and no Aux cable needed. My truck and the wife's car both do that. And this whole dongle things is so blown out of proportion. Be honest, how often do you REEALLY use those other ports when away from your desk? Be honest. Almost never. And when you ARE at your desk, using a dock makes more sense because then there is just the one connector to the laptop. That's why businesses use docks all the time. It makes sense to go that route.
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i want to connect my new apple iphone 2016/17 to my new apple macbook pro 2016/17 without adapter.

i want to connect my sdcard adapter without an adapter-adapter to my apple eco system.

Lightning to USB C cable. Done.

 

[DUIduckSAUCE]

A lot of Apple’s customers cares. For years, Apple’s ecosystem was so great because everything worked well together. As it stands now, you need dongles galore for all sorts of things. Just the other day, I was trying to sort out a way to charge my iPhone while driving and play audio through an aux cord at the same time. Took quite a bit of research to find a way to utilize my iPhone to do the things I want it to do. This is becoming a problem across the spectrum of Apple’s products and only seems to be getting worse.

That’s why we care.

Sounds like you need to find a solution outside of Apple.

 

[dilbert99]

My money is on USB C never coming to the iPhone or iPad and Apple will will continue to use the Lightning port for as long as they need to.

USB-C and lightning are just means to an end and if Apple has a function that requires higher bandwidth than what lightning supplies, Apple will change to something else that allows them to provide that e.g. USB-C

 

[ColdShadow]

Supply and demand. Samsung is simply not able to produce enough OLED panels at the quality Apple demands. If Apple adopted OLED on all their phones they would sell far less than usual simply due to the fact that they wouldn't be able to produce enough panels to meet demand.

People keep bitching about all kinds of nonsense when it comes to Apple devices, how about people start spending some time in order to figure out how things actually work? Apple is selling more iPhone's than Samsung sells Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. The quality of the AMOLED displays Samsung uses in their lower end models are not up to Apple standards in terms of brightness, uniformity and colour deviation.

In order for Apple to be able to utilise OLED in all their iPhone's, Samsung have to be able to produce over 100 million panels in no time and they are simply not up to the task. Especially when the need to produce for their own devices at the same time.

well that's one side of the story, the other side summary : there are other OLED manufacturers not just Samsung and Apple in the past sourced parts from various manufacturers so they can do the same this time.
also no one was talking about Apple using lower end OLEDS of Samsungs budget phones,I was talking about high end OLEDS they use in their higher end models.do you have the exact figures how many Samsung can produce? because you sound very confident in your opinion.maybe too confident.again Samsung is not the only OLED manufacturer.

you didn't mention anything about the main concern : why should Apple's OLED iPhone be a (extra) premium? many reports claim $1000 upwards..that's just stupid if they reserve the redesign for the OLED version and justify price tag of $1000+..

 

[XTheLancerX]

Not exactly 100% true, or cheap Chinese chargers wouldn't be causing so many issues with people's phones..

An OEM Quick Charge charger is far different from a cheap Chinese charger.. a cheap Chinese charger will have an inconsistent and wildly fluctuating current. That will cause issues. An OEM Quick Charge wall adapter/charger is going to output a consistent current, determined by how much the device wants to pull.

A non-Quick charge device will only pull the regular 2A or what ever it can handle.

A Quick Charge device will pull more, and I'm sure be specifically recognized by the charger.

Even read Qualcomm's FAQ. It's safe to use with older non-Quick Charge devices. Question number 2.

https://www.qualcomm.com/products/features/quick-charge/faq

"Also, since Quick Charge is compatible and interoperable, a certified adapter can be used with a non-Quick Charge device, though the fast charging benefits of Quick Charge will not be available."

Lightning to USB C cable. Done.

No. Not done. What about if you want to use that same cable to plug directly into the wall adapter that came with the iPhone to charge it? Won't work because Apple is still half between using the USB-A shape and USB-C shape. Very annoying.

 

[ILikeAllOS]

It was a cowardly way of further pushing people into propriety connectors

What? Apple removed it to force everyone towards wireless, the exact opposite of "propriety connectors"!

 

[kyykesko]

Lightning is better can't see why they would downgrade to a lesser more bulky standard... most apple users, have plenty of lightning cables lying around.

But think of all the new wonderful adapters they could sell then!
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Apple dropping its own lightning port? Just a short period after switching to it? Dream on, this is never going to happen. Would like to see the faces of those people who just bought new lightning head phones after ditching the 3.5mm head phones..... they will be soooooo pissed.

Serves them right. Nobody in their right mind would pay for lightning headphones.
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Perhaps iPhone 8 will actually be called iPhone Pro and it gets USB-C just like the iPad Pro does at the March event.

Apple should just drop the 'pro' from all of their devices. They gave up on that long time ago.