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More Photos from Claimed Next-Generation iPhone Include Front Panel with Centered FaceTime Camera
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To all those in denial, these pics are definitely real - look at the enlarged ones and check out the detail. They are not finished pieces hence lack of text but I'd put money on them being the next iPhone design.
The design is nowhere near as bad as many of you are making out once you can visualise it properly and it'll look great in the flesh. The asymmetry makes sense on the bottom, next to the jack are the small section of holes for the mic, the other side larger because it's the speaker.
Nearly all of you whining about the bad design will change your tune once it's released and buy it. That's a fact. Who knows, there may even be good reasons for the material changes that will incorporate new features anyway. It'll look a lot better when official pics come out I'm sure.
The design is nowhere near as bad as many of you are making out once you can visualise it properly and it'll look great in the flesh. The asymmetry makes sense on the bottom, next to the jack are the small section of holes for the mic, the other side larger because it's the speaker.
Nearly all of you whining about the bad design will change your tune once it's released and buy it. That's a fact. Who knows, there may even be good reasons for the material changes that will incorporate new features anyway. It'll look a lot better when official pics come out I'm sure.
I will probably buy it because I have never owned an iphone, and I need a smartphone because I start graduate school next fall.
But that doesn't mean I think it looks good. If I could get a 3GS for free with iOS 6 I would, because I like that design better.
lol yase, people bought the iPhone primarily based on the criterion of 'how it looks'. A few twits on MR who whine about this rumored iPhone design and lose their minds at a curvy back aren't exactly reliable indicators of what designs are ugly.
I haven't been through all 20 pages of posts, but where the hell is the SIM tray slot? It doesn't appear to be on the side... Maybe they moved it back to the top? It kinda looks like it's on the same side as it is on the 4/4S, but much lower toward the speaker/dock area. That wouldn't make sense to me.
Now that I really think of it we have two missing sides of it. If people have the parts in hand right now, is it that hard to take a picture of the other corner? Especially since it appears the antennas are set up in the same manner as the 4/4S, and antennas are things we care about with the potential inclusion of LTE and whatnot.
Now that I really think of it we have two missing sides of it. If people have the parts in hand right now, is it that hard to take a picture of the other corner? Especially since it appears the antennas are set up in the same manner as the 4/4S, and antennas are things we care about with the potential inclusion of LTE and whatnot.
Do you really want a list of reasons? The fact that it would wobble like an egg every time you set it on a table is enough reason to treat it like the stupid joke it is.
It's all about the internals, screen and iOS. I think the 4/4s is an awesome looking piece of design, but mine is in a case. I imagine most people's will be. The dock connector could be an issue though. I've got an Arcam rCube and unless the new phone can be made to work with it I'll be annoyed.
The actual phone itself, I imagine, will look great in the flesh. Then it'll disappear into another case.
Guess we'll all see soon enough. There are never usually this many leaks until close to an announcement.
The actual phone itself, I imagine, will look great in the flesh. Then it'll disappear into another case.
Guess we'll all see soon enough. There are never usually this many leaks until close to an announcement.
This and the fact that the design would make one want to set it down on the flat surface. That being the front glass facing. Not very good engineering.
This is not an official iPhone design.
The design has too many attributes that clash with Johnny Ive's previous products. Two being, it is cluttered and disproportionate.
Another red flag is the fact that the metal band on the black design is black and the one on the white is silver... An inconstant color scheme not only confuses consumers but could also cause problems in the supply chain. Take a look at the iPod Nano line and you'll notice that the parts that have color are the same throughout all color schemes.
Anytime you see a leak of a design that resembles another one of their products (iMac in this case), don't believe it.
This leak is a joke.
The design has too many attributes that clash with Johnny Ive's previous products. Two being, it is cluttered and disproportionate.
Another red flag is the fact that the metal band on the black design is black and the one on the white is silver... An inconstant color scheme not only confuses consumers but could also cause problems in the supply chain. Take a look at the iPod Nano line and you'll notice that the parts that have color are the same throughout all color schemes.
Anytime you see a leak of a design that resembles another one of their products (iMac in this case), don't believe it.
This leak is a joke.
Ironic as Jonny Ive hates iPhone cases (read that in a MacRumors post a week or so ago). If he see's an employee at Apple with an iPhone case, he gets angry. Perhaps if they made the device with a stronger shell, people wouldn't need a case (although it has a solid exterior, doesn't make it immune to scratches/scuffs/etc).
So you're saying this is all Apple's got?
I can think of two great designs that make the iPhone look like last years used watch:
yeah well he can go to hell unles he place to replac my iphone every time it breaks from a fall..
I'm not sure whether I agree with everything you've typed, but those designs certainly put the iPhone's design into perspective.
(Blunt version: Those phones aren't 'great designs', they're novelty crap. Apple doesn't need to change what isn't broken.)
I guess it's either fake or more likely a prototype, so they can experiment with the new technic without spoiling the new design
This is kind of why I'm skeptical these are production parts... especially if they stick with an October launch (these would be around waaaay too soon).
It's really the same design as the 4 and 4S. I have a hard time buying they would keep the same design essentially for another version.
And yes... there will be that insane person who will nit-pick just how different it is:
"but they changed the glass to aluminum"
"they shrunk the doc conenctor! OMG!"
"They moved the head phone jack and it's longer!"
"How can you even say it's the same design!?"
which will come from the person who also argued the samsung phones were total iphone knock offs.
Ports are due to under the hood changes. It's the same form factor...argue all you want how different it is. It's like saying the last 2 gens of nanos were totally different because they changed the shades of the colors...
Not likely in June.
If anything, Apple might refresh the iPhone 4S when they release the sixth-generation iPhone, presumably in September/October. The main change would be a 32-nm dual-core A5 chip to replace the 45-nm part in the current handset. The benefits would be slightly better battery performance, less heat, and cheaper component cost (to Apple).
Note that this would mirror Apple's move to change the iPad 2 to the 32-nm part when they announced the third-generation iPad.
The current Apple TV is using a 32-nm A5 chip with one core disabled, probably following the industry practice of "binning" to maximize yield from a wafer.
The HTC One X is easily the sexiest phone on the market. Where it fails is for being so god damn BIG. If they made a 3.5-4in sized version of it, it would be pretty much perfect.
Have you by chance missed that the new phone is TALLER? So unless your case stretches like a slinky... be prepared to be annoyed. By a good inch
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Well, it's almost all screen. There really is no design to the phone. That however, is what I like about it. That they make the screen itself the design feature and not a big ugly bezel. While there is some bezel, when you see this HTC phone in person you realize how little bezel there is. The photos don't illustrate that well because you don't grasp how big and in your face that screen is, and without being a block like the Galaxy Note.
This is more in line with what I was hoping the new iPhone would do. Bezels are so 2005. Even TV's are getting rid of them.
Please don't post lies on the forum. The HTC One X is *not* plastic.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/13/htc-details-micro-arc-oxidation-says-your-one-s-will-be-strong/