I suspect, whatever way the jack ends up going, well quickly come to terms with it.![]()
Yeah, and Samsung will adjust their designs
I suspect, whatever way the jack ends up going, well quickly come to terms with it.![]()
One possibility for the new material on the back - to make the iPhone more durable as a touch-and-pay iWallet.
I like it. Will be a good step up from iPhone 4/4S design.
All of these part leaks makes me feel like we will see this sometime this Summer instead of fall. Maybe that is just because I WANT to see it sometime this summer though.
I like it. Will be a good step up from iPhone 4/4S design.
Apple better do something good with the next iPhone, and quick. If they don't, the competition is going to come in and destroy them. Far better rival phones are popping up left and right, such as the Samsung Galaxy 3. The galaxy s3 has faster mobile networking through LTE support, a far faster quad core CPU, a better GPU, double the ram, a larger battery, a higher resolution and larger screen, better wifi support with access to 5ghz bands, better front and rear cameras, NFC support, an SD slot that will allow up to 128Gb of memory, etc... Why any one would buy any iPhone at this point is a mystery.
Originally Posted by e-coli
The way you hold your phone, drop your arm to your side and slip it in your pocket, the phone is always upside down, making the headphone jack on the bottom really reasonable as a design decision
Unless you wear a suit, in which case your phone goes into your breast pocket the right way up...
While it's wise not to rush to judgment of a design based on leaked and incomplete parts it's also probably a good idea to consider that Ive and his team have developed a strong design philosophy at Apple and they're unlikely to break from it easily.
That design philosophy is about form following function. Remember when people made such a noise about the seams on the iPhone 4? It later turned out that they served a function and they weren't just random lines. I wonder if we aren't seeing something similar here.
Assuming this does represent what the final design will broadly look like, might the different materials not serve a purpose? Either as part of a more advanced antenna or maybe even as an input mechanism? Touch sensitve panels on the back, similar to that on the PS Vita maybe?
Let's give Jony and his team the benefit of the doubt, eh? I mean, sure, not every design they come out with is a world beater but they have had a fair few more hits than misses over the last decade. Let's wait and see because this may look rather nice when fully finished and properly presented and it may even transpire that these apparently superfluous design features are important in some way that we couldn't yet know about.