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Introducing the new IPhone, The Apple IPhone 6 Totally Unoriginal Re-used Design, also know as the 6T.U.R.D.
First we had the iPhone 6S, and now we have the iPhone 6T.
We think your gonna love it...!

That doesn't deserve to be called an iPhone 7!
 
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People use their phones in private. Ever used a phone in your home?

Or in a movie theatre, online at the store, on a bus or anywhere else where it gets on everyone's nerves... Unfortunately, the people that show disrespect for others make me want to see a headphone only device. When the user steps outside of the range of their home's wifi, the speakers shutdown :)

Just kidding around.

EDIT: Fixed wording.
 
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disgusting camera bump
Tim Cook would't necessarily call it "the bump".
But he would insist, that if you're out on a field trip, taking pictures, it might be kinda nice to have...

Can haz wireless charging??
Just wait for another generation. This year, they are getting rid of the 3.5mm headphone jack. Removing the Lightning Port is planned for next year's iPhone.
 
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Apple puts millions into R&D. They know how eliminate the camera bump. Flush cameras is where it's at, not this half hearted protrusion nonsense. Image quality hasn't been terrible since iP5s.
And with enough millions you can change the laws of physics?
 
Or in a movie theatre, online at the store, on a bus or anywhere else where it gets on everyone's nerves... Unfortunately, the people that show disrespect for others make me want to see a headphone only device when the user steps outside the range of their home's wifi :)
Wouldn't work.

You go to visit your parents and you try to set up a FaceTime so they can see and talk to their grandkids, but the phone won't let you use the speaker because you're not in range of your home wifi?
 
Hideous and embarrassing. The worst iPhone design yet, aesthetically speaking. Possibly practically too, if the no headphone jack rumor is true. That will be a reversal in the next design once people realize how much they miss it. Just yikes.

Look up the word hyperbole. And look up hideous while you are at it. Somehow in your eyes the basic iphone 6 shape has become 'extremely ugly' because the camera is a squarer shape rather than a circle.

That's not a design mistake, that's your own personal issues coming to the fore, especially if it invokes an association with embarrassment in you.

The thing about these unhinged thoughtless comments on things like a low res temp render, is they don't have to be defended against the slow logic and truth of time. And in a few years, when enough Android phones have dual cameras and no 3.5mm jack you will have forgotten what you said here. Doesn't mean we didn't have to suffer through reading it though.
 
2016 will be a no upgrade year for me. No new iPad and no new iPhone. The Air 2 and 6S are solid products. Their half-baked successors (7, 9.7 Pro) are definitely not worth the upgrade. Now the supposed 2017 iPhone will be worth considering. I see the iPhone 7 as a place holder until the 8 or 7s, or whatever the hell it will be called is released.
 
Apple puts millions into R&D. They know how eliminate the camera bump. Flush cameras is where it's at, not this half hearted protrusion nonsense. Image quality hasn't been terrible since iP5s.

It is flush, if you use a case, which 95% of people do. If you don't, your loss and risk every time you drop it, even then it's still fine to have a bump.

Also, millions in R&D? What year is it? Billions

If they change it to flush, lens is smaller, photos are compromised, or phone is bigger and heavier.

Slight bump is the best compromise, effectively no bump for all but a few, and better photos.
 
What's boring is reading all the comments from people who are easily sold on a phone purely because it has a new design. It's what's inside the phone that counts and the software, in this case iOS 10, and how the two work together.

If you take off the casing of every iPhone to date and set aside the increase in screen size over the years you'll see that every generation has been an "incremental" upgrade over the previous model. Not that much changes dramatically in tech over the course of a year.

The sooner people stop moaning about this being an incremental or boring upgrade, the better. I swear that if Apple kept the exact same components as the 6S but changed the external design of the phone people would go mad for it.
Must be tough having zero imagination. A new chassis design every 2 years is what most people look forward to...well except for you of course.
 
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Wouldn't work.

You go to visit your parents and you try to set up a FaceTime so they can see and talk to their grandkids, but the phone won't let you use the speaker because you're not in range of your home wifi?

I was just kidding around. Seriously ;)
 
Two things -

1. Anyone realised the Bezels on the sides are much thinner now? Looks good. (EDIT: Nevermind, can't tell from an all-black front)

2. 3.5mm audio jack is gone.sh*t :(
Do you realize this is a fake picture someone made for fun? It has no basis in reality at all.
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Those saying they had huge expectations for this iPhone clearly haven't been following rumors.

Keep in mind there are a large number of posters on this thread that are anti-Apple. I am not violating the TOS by pointing that out because their signatures actually point that out. I would not accept their disappointment as genuine.
 
hehe...only to make things better.. I don't care about the photo, i'm more interested in the text..
 
Reading the comments above, I think some people seem to forget this is a RUMOURS website.

Rumour: "A currently circulating story or report of uncertain or doubtful truth"
 
So the earbuds will plug into the
The thing that gets me with describing the "all-in-one" lightning connector situation here is that it can only do one thing at a time in normal use. Charge and use wired headphones? nope

This is a big problem for me. Like... fatally bad. I often pop my earphones in while my phone charges at night. Are they really going to limit this functionality? It just seems crazy if it's only in favour of stereo sound. Any chance of two lightning ports?
 
So the earbuds will plug into the


This is a big problem for me. Like... fatally bad. I often pop my earphones in while my phone charges at night. Are they really going to limit this functionality? It just seems crazy if it's only in favour of stereo sound. Any chance of two lightning ports?

You haven't read many of the comments or been keeping up with this rumor if you're still asking this question.

At a minimum there will likely be a simple pass through available in the connector cable of the headphones or adapter you chose to buy, adding no additional bulk, but there's at least a half-dozen other ways to easily tackle this problem.

I'm stunned that anybody continues to ask this question after almost a year of this rumor circulating. The answer is so simple on the face of it. And it presumes that Apple has not put any thought into solving this, despite the fact that Apple has already demonstrated this basic solution in many of its Lightning accessories, as well as its USBc accessories.
 
It is flush, if you use a case, which 95% of people do. If you don't, your loss and risk every time you drop it, even then it's still fine to have a bump.

Also, millions in R&D? What year is it? Billions

If they change it to flush, lens is smaller, photos are compromised, or phone is bigger and heavier.

Slight bump is the best compromise, effectively no bump for all but a few, and better photos.
It is flush -- No it protrudes.

If you use a case, which 95% of people do -- 95%? Source please.

There is no reason for the camera to protrude. Shave 1/2 millimetres off the inside near the camera to sit it further back. Lot's is possible. This is Apple's fabricated can't do it, just can't until... yes we can do it. Apparently the iMac couldn't use a vertical CD drive at one point in its life, then, surprise a vertical CD drive, and a new reason to upgrade. A vertical CD drive was always possible, just like a device without a protruding camera.

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And with enough millions you can change the laws of physics?
Physics isn't required here. Shave off 1/2 millimetres inside the case around the camera assembly and sit the camera back further and just like magic, there you have it, a non protruding camera. Or, increase the case depth slightly. Lots is possible.
 
Look up the word hyperbole. And look up hideous while you are at it. Somehow in your eyes the basic iphone 6 shape has become 'extremely ugly' because the camera is a squarer shape rather than a circle.

That's not a design mistake, that's your own personal issues coming to the fore, especially if it invokes an association with embarrassment in you.

The thing about these unhinged thoughtless comments on things like a low res temp render, is they don't have to be defended against the slow logic and truth of time. And in a few years, when enough Android phones have dual cameras and no 3.5mm jack you will have forgotten what you said here. Doesn't mean we didn't have to suffer through reading it though.

Headphone jack is a necessity for millions. Apple doesn't need to reinvent the headphone jack - they need to reinvent their poor design choices. The phone is similar to holding a slippery bar of soap, now with the added inconvenience of having no jack, and a larger camera bump to hit and scratch. I am sorry for your wrong opinion and lack of taste.
 
Nope. No thanks. As a photographer I want a better performing camera and a phone that isn't thicker. My 6+ with a larger display, as an example, is excellent. Do not want a future iPhone any thicker. A case makes the camera protrusion moot.

LOL so you don't want a thicker iPhone but you use a case...

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Physics isn't required here. Shave off 1/2 millimetres inside the case around the camera assembly and sit the camera back further and just like magic, there you have it, a non protruding camera. Or, increase the case depth slightly. Lots is possible.
Do you really think that wouldn't have reduced the thickness of whatever is behind the camera module (essentially the front glass and very thin black separation layer) as much as possible?

You simply prefer, everything else equal (which includes the thickness of whatever is behind the camera module), a flush camera over a better camera. There is nothing wrong with that preference but you should openly stand behind that trade-off and pretend that there is no trade-off. Maybe there is still some thickness reduction of whatever is behind the camera module possible but that still leaves you with the position that any thickness reduction there should be invested in removing the protruding lens instead of putting a better camera into the iPhone. There is no free lunch.
 
I think I'm going to skip this upgrade. I just can't think of one good reason to make the change. Plus, I like having a headphone jack. We'll see what this thing looks like when it actually comes out.
 
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