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

[maerz001]

My 7+ has poor signal quality vs my 6. I wonder if stainless steel will help improve signal strength?

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...

 

[dabirdwell]

I wonder if Corning has a new version of Gorilla Glass to premiere for the panels.

 

[engg2000]

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.

 

[maerz001]

#Bend gate 2.0 ?

stainless steel is much sturdier than alu (E-modul 180 vs 70 GPa). bg is bs

 

[jonnybgood87]

iPhone edition sounds wrong to me. Also, what do the call next version of the 'edition'?

 

[maerz001]

iPhone edition sounds wrong to me. Also, what do the call next version of the 'edition'?

iPhone ES

 

[jonnybgood87]

iPhone ES

And then the next??

 

[MrXiro]

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?

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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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.

Steel is much stronger than aluminum... being polished though means the frame is going to be scratched to all heck.

 

[alexgowers]

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.

 

[maerz001]

And then the next??

i was kidding and also don't like the name. hopefully they won't start to mess like with the ipad line and call it: iPhone OLED, the new iphone, air or pro

 

[ovo6]

iPhone 7s looking better than the 8 at this point lolol

 

[elmaco]

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?

 

[Glideslope]

Well, if this is close to being "real" I'm loving it.
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Camera for VR or AR?

AR.

 

[Rogifan]

It makes sense that some of the materials work they did for the Watch would end up in the iPhone some day.

 

[Glideslope]

Smile Face only? You're next.

 

[Rob_2811]

And then the next??

iPhone 9 - the force touch awakens.

 

[LoveToMacRumors]

And then the next??

iPhone ES 2

 

[zombierunner]

Will the vertical cameras allow you to record in landscape while holding the phone vertically? I mean that would be revolutionary.

 

[Arran]

Meanwhile, the tentatively named iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus are expected to be slightly thicker than the current iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus

Thicker? Has time started running backwards?

 

[Dave245]

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!

 

[mi7chy]

And then the next??

Back to just 'iPhone' like 'iPad' for this year.

 

[gaximus]

No such thing as a half dimension, the glass is either in 2 dimensions or in 3. Sorry just had to say.

 

[rp2011]

The mockup does look good. If there is an edition model this year, this looks pretty good.

 

[carrrrrlos]

Looks nice!

 

[Lepton]

Make the sides more bulge-y and rounded, like the case of the watch.