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The ONLY thing I know of to support that is this: applications do resize themselves during a phone call to make room for a bigger header. So, perhaps, it would be possible for them to resize themselves for other screen sizes.
It has been awhile since I've looked at the SDK, so I really can't say much more, except that, even if Apple says to write the apps with support for multiple screen sizes, 90% of developers won't do so (granted, these developers stink anyway, but still...) So a lot of apps could still break with a different sized screen.
no matter what happens, MR forums will turn into a whining-fest immediately after the keynote is over. Even if they announce a $1, 128 GB, OLED-screen, front-facing camera, etc. iPhone, there will be whining
I agree. Everyone will say something like "What happened to Marble?" or "The price for SL os too high, does anyone know where I can get a cheap copy?" or "Why isn't there a Verizon version?"
Don't forget "My $1 iPhone wont be my laundry, SJ lied to me
I are sends angry email to show I am angry with angry face >:-( <---See? Shows I angry grrrr"
Is Tallest Skil still in time out? I've not seen him in any of the WWDC related threads telling people with absolute authority that we won't see SL at WWDC or a MB or MBP update until Intel comes out with their new processor in a year.
why i don't like this
A lot of people are saying that they like this but there is one obvious flaw. The home button placed at the bottom of the phone is an inconvenience because if you pushed it while sitting on a table, it would lift the top end of the phone off the table. I thought I read somewhere that this was proven fake made by a guy in Germany, so I'm pretty sure it is not gonna happen, and I doubt that Apple's design team would come up with this design not realizing that. I do like it otherwise, I just feel the home button on the iPhone is an iconic figure.
I know the picture here is a fake. I also know the one I am posting is a fake. However, I would much rather the one pictured here than the one pictured in this thread.
I think this looks amazing....
A lot of people are saying that they like this but there is one obvious flaw. The home button placed at the bottom of the phone is an inconvenience because if you pushed it while sitting on a table, it would lift the top end of the phone off the table. I thought I read somewhere that this was proven fake made by a guy in Germany, so I'm pretty sure it is not gonna happen, and I doubt that Apple's design team would come up with this design not realizing that. I do like it otherwise, I just feel the home button on the iPhone is an iconic figure.
Apple did have the puck mouse and I've discovered replacing the zip drive in a PM is pretty terrible.
2 cores, 4 thread and the onboard IGP there.
It's a mess with Intel's mobile IGP outlook since it's literally tied to the processor. I haven't seen any other solutions besides Intel's 5 Series and you'll need Arrandale to provide the IGP support. Not to mention that the IGP onboard the processor is some sort of X4500HD spin off. You'll need discrete solutions otherwise.
I don't see AMD/ATI providing another Intel IGP solution ever and nVidia has been quiet about Clarksfield/Arrandale support.
thats why he should have designed it to be touch sensitive rather then a physical button
Your forgetting, Tallest Skil knows everything...in fact, I heard he was SJ!
Could you dumb it down a bit for me? I read a bit about it and couldn't understand it.
I know the picture here is a fake. I also know the one I am posting is a fake. However, I would much rather the one pictured here than the one pictured in this thread.
I think this looks amazing....
EPIC. I think this looks gorgeous.
I don't think phones are designed to be used while sitting on a table anyway.
It requires a physical button of some kind in order to do a hard reset. Otherwise, you'd be left with a brick if the touch screen is unresponsive.
Maybe they could end up making more money, and gaining more credit, if it works. But I personally don't want Apple to take that risk. Because if the new design would be a dud, I would hate to see Apple be trashed just because they gave into the want of the glamourous shopper.
I can't believe people are still debating whether this is real since the above was posted....
Horrible photoshopping.....not even worthy of being debated as to it's authenticity.
As I said before, it doesnt matter what it will look like cause people will still buy it.
Then why is it that every handheld device I owned before I bought iPods and iPhones look fine after years of use, but anything from Apple looks butchered? Prior to using their products I never even considered using weird protective gear like rubber skins for cellphones and such, but after I bought the iPod Nano (the original one with clear plastic front and chrome back) I learned that Apple's portable products will get scratched up if you sneeze within ten feet of them. So, again, don't blame chrome for Apple's inability to produce durable iPod shells. There's a 1954 Oldsmobile outside my window, and the chrome on that thing looks infinitely better than my iPod Nano did after 2 days in my pocket.
So what you're saying is that Johnny Ive and his team are in fact incompetent idiots who have no idea how to design a device that works in real life. Right? I mean, they did design the current iPhone and the previous one, and they both had chrome trim. Steve Jobs gave it two thumbs up and said this is what we're going with. If only you had been there to lecture them on the distracting nature of metal rings, it wouldn't have taken them two years to finally discover this.
When the hell was it EVER common practice to put reflective metal around a friggin' TV? I'm old enough to have lived with black & white wooden TVs, and I must have seen thousands of TV sets over the last 4 decades but I sure never saw this mythical mirror TV you're alluding to.
I don't give a rat's ass about "bling" and I never "flash around" anything. Why the hell would I care what other people think about it? Am I in junior high? As long as it pleases *my* eyes -- I am the one who paid for it after all -- it's all good. I just want a good balance between function and form. If you consider aesthetical values superfluous and people who appreciate them shallow, you're definitely a fan of the wrong company, and you should run away from Apple like the devil was chasing you, far away from their über-glossy laptop screens and rainbow-colored iPods, and get a normal smartphone with practical features like a real keyboard and a battery door for easy swapping. You should hate Apple, really, given that their CEO likes to make a point of how "gorgeous" their products are, this is his favorite adjective when doing keynote addresses. Well, his second favorite adjective, after "thin".
Metal trim on an iPhone isn't "bling" -- for heaven's sake, it's already one of the most minimalist designs in existence. But an all black K.I.T.T. iPhone shoots the balance between form and function all to hell. It doesn't improve function in any way (the chrome on the current model isn't the least bit distracting or detrimental to perceived contrast), but it ruins form. Not that chrome is ideal, it's kind of tacky and I'd much prefer brushed aluminium, but at least it's one step up from the devoid-of-contrast, bargain-bin appearance of the all-black Darth Vader iPhone presented in these mockups.
Well, here is the belated news...
Annoyed, and I am totally for real guys...Found out only yesterday my flatmate's friend is a tester for Apple and has it and Nokia to compare to for a week, I'm hopefully getting my hands on it in a couple of days time. She is unimpressed, although she's not aquainted with it and not a Fangirl/boy like us. However, my flatmate was out with her Friday Night and her peers are not impressed with how it looks, as it's too similar to the 3g. So even if they are fakes, it looks roughly like this, i.e. dull and boring and not the wow factor I'd hoped for. It looks like more money is saved with each model's design, looks wise, whilst the software just gets better and better. Why only 3.2meg camera with no flash still, pathetic? When I go out I wanna to be able to not take a camera with me. I love everything else about my 3g and couldn't live without it, though. Don't get me wrong, I'll probably be one of the idiots queing up4 it at 7am again, but just updating the software will be enough to satisfy me for now. Maybe, I'll get it in white, just for a change this time? I'd hoped for something to take design ques from macbook air or macbook pro. I really am hoping for a tiered model range and an iphone pro model in a thin aluminium unibody....
Annoyed, and I am totally for real guys...Found out only yesterday my flatmate's friend is a tester for Apple and has it and Nokia to compare to for a week, I'm hopefully getting my hands on it in a couple of days time. She is unimpressed, although she's not aquainted with it and not a Fangirl/boy like us. However, my flatmate was out with her Friday Night and her peers are not impressed with how it looks, as it's too similar to the 3g. So even if they are fakes, it looks roughly like this, i.e. dull and boring and not the wow factor I'd hoped for. It looks like more money is saved with each model's design, looks wise, whilst the software just gets better and better. Why only 3.2meg camera with no flash still, pathetic? When I go out I wanna to be able to not take a camera with me. I love everything else about my 3g and couldn't live without it, though. Don't get me wrong, I'll probably be one of the idiots queing up4 it at 7am again, but just updating the software will be enough to satisfy me for now. Maybe, I'll get it in white, just for a change this time? I'd hoped for something to take design ques from macbook air or macbook pro. I really am hoping for a tiered model range and an iphone pro model in a thin aluminium unibody....
O RLY? You should have a look at my wife's Sony Ericsson phone. Or any phone I owned prior to the iPhone. Or my old Palm Pilot (screen protectors were an absolute must on those things).
The scratch-happy Nano was an aberration, in my experience.
That said, more durable materials would always be welcome, but I certainly don't see Apple falling short in this area compared to other companies.
Agreed 100%. Not liking the monochromatic iPhone one bit, if indeed these spy pics are real. A brushed aluminum bezel would be fantastic.
Apple has a habit of turning 180 when competitors start to copy their look. A good habit sometimes, but other times not.
For one it was never meant as a "leaked" photo and was in fact done in Germany, they never claimed it to be real. Also it depends how heavy the phone is, then the button wouldn't make the rest of the phone move.
Also remember how Apple put the recessed jack, then changed it in the 3G? That seems like a late realization.
I do agree with you though, the iPhone's home button has made it iconic. The squircle in the middle is said to represent the shapes of your apps.