Lost Next-Generation iPhone Believed to Be Late-Stage or Final Design

[Anuba]

Quite possibly the most bizarre assessment I've heard about the new design. I read and re-read your post and can't stop laughing.

Hmm, actually it wasn't that far off. He overshot but it is more masculine and it does sort of look like an 80's Braun shaver. Ive's designs are... metrosexual, to put it mildly, and I've heard countless guys worrying about buying a white iPhone because it's too feminine (I wonder what they bought in the mid-00's when all of Apple's products including the Macs were white...). I wouldn't be surprised if the new iPhone is the result of Steve pointing out to Ive that his designs are too prissy, and telling him that the design goal for the next one should be "John Wayne's iPhone".

Mighty Mouse*

Thanks, corrected. The Magic Mouse has absolutely no balls.

 

[hachre]

I also agree that it is more masucline, but being a guy myself I don't really care about such things in technical devices.

As long as they aren't full with little kitties, diamonds or they come in pink that is... I was perfectly okay with the previous iPhones, also the white ones.

This new design is a radical change that people have to get used to first, including myself. My initial thought was horrible. But after looking at it for a while I think I might actually like it, the biggest put off for me are the seams still.

 

[colingray344]

I really don't think it's going to be the final design... the case looks fugly. I really pray that it's only a prototype to mask the real thing

 

[kdarling]

(snip) I wouldn't be surprised if the new iPhone is the result of Steve pointing out to Ive that his designs are too prissy, and telling him that the design goal for the next one should be "John Wayne's iPhone"..

Perhaps the Droid ads touched a nerve at Apple.

Wonder if the iPhone ads will ever break away from their usual happy music and family app showcases.

 

[Anuba]

This new design is a radical change that people have to get used to first, including myself. My initial thought was horrible. But after looking at it for a while I think I might actually like it, the biggest put off for me are the seams still.

Love or hate the seams, but either way, put them into context. All cellphones (including the iPhone 3G/3GS and the better part of the original iPhone) are mostly plastic. Any issues with shock absorption and radio signal transparency pretty much solve themselves when you use plastic. But this phone is metal, glass and ceramics. The normal rules don't apply. Since there's no precedent, we have no basis for knocking the construction. There's no "Nokia and Samsung made metal phones without seams, why can't you?"

Since the phone appears to be made up of rigid metal with a glass front and a ceramic back attached to it, I'm guessing Apple's options were to either split the metal up in parts, or to make a seamless unibody museum piece that can't withstand being dropped even once.

 

[hachre]

Love or hate the seams, but either way, put them into context.

What I don't understand is: Why aren't they symmetrical? There seems to be one on the lower area of the left hand side and the next one on left area of the top side and that's it??

 

[Anuba]

What I don't understand is: Why aren't they symmetrical? There seems to be one on the lower area of the left hand side and the next one on left area of the top side and that's it??

The one on the lower area is on both sides because the bottom 1/5 (approximately) is one of the three parts. The upper half is split vertically, 1/3 + 2/3, near the headphone jack. Not sure why, but maybe they found in drop tests that if the headphone plug hits the ground first, that corner takes the whole impact and the glass (and/or ceramics) breaks more easily, so by having one separate part of metal on the jack side the energy is absorbed in a more non-destructive way. Just a wild, unscientific guess.

 

[hachre]

The one on the lower area is on both sides because the bottom 1/4 (approximately) is one of the three parts. The upper half is split vertically, 1/3 + 2/3, near the headphone jack. Not sure why, but maybe they found in drop tests that if the headphone plug hits the ground first, that corner takes the whole impact and the glass (and/or ceramics) breaks more easily, so by having one separate part of metal on the jack side the energy is absorbed in a more non-destructive way. Just a wild, unscientific guess.

Ahh ok, I didn't know the seam on the side was on both sides... That makes more sense, yeah..

 

[Anuba]

Ahh ok, I didn't know the seam on the side was on both sides... That makes more sense, yeah..

Actually, scratch that... looks like it's only two parts.

According to this picture (ignore the text about the removable battery) it's only two parts. So two of the seams are real (one side + top), the third is fake (other side).

 

[OasisNYK]

Has anyone seen the upcoming Garmin Nuvi line? The 3790T looks strikingly similar to this new iPhone....

 

[netfangwei]

can you accept the design? I'm afraid not, but probably I will change my mind when touch it...