does anyone really give a **** about these rumors anymore after the IphoneX turned out to be such a piece of ****?
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Kuo: No Apple Pencil Support for 2018 iPhones, Upcoming 6.1-Inch Model to Be Slightly Delayed
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I think Kuo is slightly off base with rumors because I can see a 1080p iPhone 6.1” with a larger battery than 2700 and still have a more attractive price than the X or X+.
You can't make an assumption and base it as fact, you have to either validate it or invalidate it, with user testing. BIG, BIG fail Ming! Just proves what a crock of shyte that Ming is.
Because the iPhone 6.5" is almost an iPad mini.
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The problem then becomes, this $799 6.1" iPhone with 1080p and great battery life cannibalizing the $999 6.5" model.
Apple is doing a beautiful job of putting consumers on the fence. The 6.1" iPhone makes a number of people consider spending extra for the 6.5" model.
Same here. I will hold out on 2018 iPhone to keep my 8+ and it’s Touch ID goodness
So no anti-pencil critics silenced and microphone passed to the pro-pencil critics LOL *clap clap* keep it coming guys
Not necessarily. You have to remember the context in which he said that. Steve was referring to a stylus as a primary input approach (ie small on-screen targets that are too small to accurately touch with fingers), whereas multitouch requires no stylus. The Apple Pencil is not the same implementation as a stylus. And there isn’t any indication that anyone in the industry thinks that late 90s and early 2000-style stylus input and interface elements are going to ever make a comeback on modern smartphones.
They might be lcd displays, but Apple uses some of the best tech available.
True Tone, DCI-P3 wide color gamut
Everyone knows Apple isn’t about “specs” it’s a “budget” phone so why should it get the same oled tech as the more expensive X and X Plus. If customers want OLED, they’re going to have to cough up extra money for it
The lcd iPhones are very nice to look at. Yeah they’re not QHD, but they’re well done.
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And why is it a pos?? Everyone I know that has one loves it.
Do we know that is why he was "thanking God?"
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I don't think it's surprising. What are you going to do, give it a triple camera on the back? Maybe next year, but the 5.8 one already has multiple camera's OIS, etc., just like the 8+ and X last year.
I bet it will be the same camera this year.
“Slightly delayed” assumes Kuo understands the Apple strategy.
We don’t know, but it’s likelu Apple wants the 6.1 to launch soon after, improving mid toward higher end phones at launch.
We don’t know, but it’s likelu Apple wants the 6.1 to launch soon after, improving mid toward higher end phones at launch.
Because, at a year old, the current Plus model (and the 7 for that matter) will come down in price to meet that $699 and likely even surpass it. Sure this new 6.1" will have a better processor and Face ID but processor speeds are already fine for me and probably most users while Face ID is not that attractive to me either. What is attractive is a high quality screen that can, at the least, play 1080p content without downscaling, not to mention 3D Touch! That a phablet phone doesn't have 1080p in 2018 is quite laughable really. What are Kuo or Apple are smoking to think it'll more popular than both X models combined?
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Perhaps its a ploy to get fatter initial profit margins by forcing those who cannot wait to buy the nire expensive oled models. Personally I'm waiting for the new Mac mini and perhaps macbook air? I would never buy iPhones unless I can get micro SD support, and maybe a headphone jack and boot camp to Android haha.
I doubt Apple has had much of any difficulties in production with their partners in many years. They churn these things out like clockwork and all the media does is wring their hands and speculate. How many times has an iPhone really been difficult to get? And how many years in a row has Apple sold over 200M phones? Lol...this is all part of the strategy.
The best selling iPhone that hasn’t had any major problems is a piece of .... what now?
If history has taught us anything, it's that Sir Ive couldn't care less about how or where users store their accessories. Just look at the lack of integrated Pencil storage on the iPad.
The resolution for the 6.1” model doesn’t make sense. It is a multiple of the 6.5” model’s base resolution, which implies it would have more working resolution than the 5.8” OLED model. I’d say the two most likely possibilities for it are:
a) 2436x1125 - same res as the 5.8” at slightly lower density
b) 2338x1080 - renders at 2436x1125, like how the current Plus size iPhones run 2208x1242 assets on a 1920x1080 display
You could also chuck in 2160x998 (same logic as 2338x1080) as a wildcard. 1624x750 would be 2x the X’s base res but that would be lower than 326ppi making it the lowest pixel density on an iPhone since the 4, so that’s definitely not happening considering it’s still a $699 phone.
a) 2436x1125 - same res as the 5.8” at slightly lower density
b) 2338x1080 - renders at 2436x1125, like how the current Plus size iPhones run 2208x1242 assets on a 1920x1080 display
You could also chuck in 2160x998 (same logic as 2338x1080) as a wildcard. 1624x750 would be 2x the X’s base res but that would be lower than 326ppi making it the lowest pixel density on an iPhone since the 4, so that’s definitely not happening considering it’s still a $699 phone.
Well, the cheapest newest iPhone is rocking a 750p display and has been doing it for 4 years,even though you have to go to India to get such a low resolution in any other phone. I do see Apple being cheap and putting in some subpar resolution. Funny to see the horrible screen size fragmentation Apple manages to make, something that android was heavily criticized for from a developer perspective.
It’s a 326 ppi display. The actual display size is approx 6.06” diagonal). Given the 19.5:9 aspect ratio, the width is 2.54” and the height is 5.5”. The approx dims in pixels are:
2.54” x 326 ppi = 828 pixels
5.50” x 326 ppi = 1793 pixels
This.
It doesn't make sense to delay the "base" model for a few weeks, we read about that kind of stuff every year and eventually they're proven wrong except for last year, but they had iPhone 8 and 8+ right on schedule.