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Major iPhone 17 Pro Redesign Backed by Supply Chain Info, Claims Leaker
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Eh, we’ll get used to it. Just like we eventually got used to the square triple camera island, as I like to call it.
TBH I don’t like it…BUT I like where it is heading. I prefer a more symmetrical phone. Camera bumps have always struck me as asymmetrical. If they could implement a smaller bump with symmetry, I’m game.
That's what most design changes are for.
Radical take: I would like a super thin phone the size of the regular Pro, or folding the size of the Max with a single flush rear camera like original iPhone. Would be much much better quality after all these years 24MP? I also think Apple should release their own camera that could be plugged into the phone for serious pro level shooting. Stop conflating a pro camera and phone. I’d pay $1000-$1200 for that phone and $500 for external camera module. I like dreaming and sidewalks.
I still wonder if Apple won't combine the cameras into one lens array with an f1.8-2-4 variable aperture and a 28-110mm telephoto. You'd lose the Ultrawide but I don't think thats such a huge loss.
Samsung: We've created a new type of foldable phone. It has a triple fold.
Apple: We moved our camera module.
Apple: We moved our camera module.
I actually think most people record video wrong like this. Apple could do spatial video from this orientation just not display it on the iPhone as spatial video. I thought for many years wish no matter what way people are holding their iPhone it records in landscape as that what photos and especially videos are best viewed in.
While I think that layout is better than what we have now, I don't plan to buy another iphone until the rounded sides come back.
With 17 Air rumored to be getting 120Hz display, I’m seriously considering going that route for a thinner and lighter phone. I say that as a Pro user.
The camera suite just isn’t all that impressive anymore and I think I could live with 1 good wide lens.
The camera suite just isn’t all that impressive anymore and I think I could live with 1 good wide lens.
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I'll see your "radical" and raise you "more": Why not just make a true camera with no "thinner" limitations working against quality of picture but install the telephony app as one of the apps on the camera (buds for phone use, NOT holding a camera up to one's ear)... like this...
Optical physics cannot be overcome. An ever-better camera fights against "thinner" phone case objectives. However, if the big focus is "better camera", perhaps they should make a camera that can also run a phone app. There seems plenty of room in that concept for massive improvements to both camera and phone... and battery life, etc... unlike all "thinner" aspirations.
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Yes here is how i hold my 15 PM in portrait mode. Second one shows how my pointer finger always gets in in the camera images on the block, so in first image I move the pointer on the left and problem solved and i hate the 16 line camera button I have tried at store a lot do not like it so my mode makes it hard to use the camera button instead of app button LOL
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I hear yah, but I'd imagine Apple's never liked the asymmetrical placement of those cameras (which I believe are placed out of the way of the centered, front facing camera)
I think enough people here have complained about the lack of a redesign to warrant this. To be fair, how many different ways can they redesign the rectangle?
Don’t worry, there would be cases to restore most of that beloved wobbliness.
This would be great to reduce table wobble. I can't stand the fact that I have to have a case just so I can place and use my phone on a flat surface. And it still sucks.
However, this design would seem to interfere with recording Spatial Photos and Videos for Vision Pro. I wonder how Apple justifies this.
Apple needs to just stop with these cameras bumps for normal phones. Go ahead on the Pro models but not everyone wants to carry around these stupidly huge cameras in their pockets. It's just ridiculous and is in some part driving me away from the company. The OS is tolerabl-ish but it's embarrassing to own any newer iPhone.
Edit: I was just thinking... it would be pretty cool if some upstart were able to hack older iPhones (4, 5, SE, 6, etc) and entirely replace the OS with a super minimalist yet totally usable OS.
However, this design would seem to interfere with recording Spatial Photos and Videos for Vision Pro. I wonder how Apple justifies this.
Apple needs to just stop with these cameras bumps for normal phones. Go ahead on the Pro models but not everyone wants to carry around these stupidly huge cameras in their pockets. It's just ridiculous and is in some part driving me away from the company. The OS is tolerabl-ish but it's embarrassing to own any newer iPhone.
Edit: I was just thinking... it would be pretty cool if some upstart were able to hack older iPhones (4, 5, SE, 6, etc) and entirely replace the OS with a super minimalist yet totally usable OS.
I hope they also release one normal iPhone model for those of us who don’t shoot Hollywood films on our phones. Maybe iPhone Air will be flat with 1 or 2 cameras.
I just want an iPhone that weighs less than 150g IDGAF how thick the thing is.
That's easy: bring back rounded sides. "MICTHA" (Make Iphones comfortable to hold again).
At this point Apple engineers are just playing Tetris with the camera module, but Tim will still sell it as a redesign ya bet. 🤑
Guys, what am I missing?
I was under the impression that you only needed two cameras that are separated by some distance to get spatial video. From my understanding, it does not matter if the cameras are spaced vertically, diagonally, or horizontally.