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'iPhone Edition' Said to Have Polished Stainless Steel Frame Similar to Apple Watch, Vertical Camera for VR

JosephAW said:
My 7+ has poor signal quality vs my 6. I wonder if stainless steel will help improve signal strength?
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if it would be the same design not at all. ever heard of Faraday cage? thats why they use plastic antenna lines.
but a glass back would help a lot...
 
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Just a hunch, I have a feeling the "polished stainless steel" they're talking about is Liquid Metal $LQMT . Glad I bought some stock in it. It's gone up $0.12 in the last few weeks to $0.27/share.

Apple has a history of putting money into that company. The sim pins they package with the iPhone is made of Liquid Metal. Try bending it...its pretty amazing.
 
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puckhead193 said:
I was thinking if apple does indeed make the OLED a "Pro" or more expensive model whatever you want to call it, I wonder if they will include AirPods and a dock. Like apple includes the dock for the ceramic watch?
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Dock? doubt it... you'll get the USB-C to Lightning cable and a USB-C high speed charging brick and you'll like it... Don't be surprised if they stop including any headphones.
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BasicGreatGuy said:
If the polished steel frame rumor is true, I predict a lot of people needing to purchasing AC+ or a good case, as that frame will easily dent.
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Steel is much stronger than aluminum... being polished though means the frame is going to be scratched to all heck.
 
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I hope apple sticks with 16:9 and avoids taller ratios. Media isn't design for taller displays and looks terrible or it renders with pillar boxes and hard coded letter boxing resulting in both at once! 16:9 is the only sensible option for mobiles and if they go with anything other than that I'll be deeply disappointed.
 
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Apple bought this VR company a couple of years ago.

I wonder if the AR camera functionality is somehow related, or what was the purpose of that purchase?
 
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It makes sense that some of the materials work they did for the Watch would end up in the iPhone some day.
 
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Will the vertical cameras allow you to record in landscape while holding the phone vertically? I mean that would be revolutionary. :D:D
 
If this is true and they manage to put Touch ID into the display it will be a great phone, I'll definitely pre-order one!
 
No such thing as a half dimension, the glass is either in 2 dimensions or in 3. Sorry just had to say.
 
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The mockup does look good. If there is an edition model this year, this looks pretty good.
 
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