People really consider the current iphone 5 and upcoming iphone 6 thin? Thin by American bulky standards? 
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No better battery... There is no way they could increase battery space... they must make the phone thinner. (Johnny only works in 2D) Not until iPhone is thin enough to be a lethal edged weapon. Then we'll have to use cases to not cut ourselves. (But we will be able to shave with it too, so Johnny can keep that shine!)
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Oh yes, when have we EVER heard about any screen quality issues with Apple Products.
LOL, made me laugh
If the phones get thinner as sales go up... Will they EVER stack to reach the Moon?
If Apple wants thin, maybe they should just take out all the technology that we want and make it thin. No compromises. That is what they said about Microsoft Surface and why they have a Macbook Air and an iPad.
I feel like my case defeats the purpose of a thin iPhone anyways.
I feel like my case defeats the purpose of a thin iPhone anyways.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's the market which has purchased 500 million of them.
When people start lining up to buy thick phones instead of iPhones, Apple might change course.
Graphene ICs, batteries and displays allow devices which have a height of < 1000 nanometers.
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Sharp COULD be making easier parts on their line for part of the year... But they have to WAIT on Apple. That means Sharp is letting money go every minute their most state-of-the-art line isn't going full speed. Paying for 9 months is different than taking all year with one week per month shut down...
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
The sales volume spin is- IMO- the weakest argument for or against any one feature or benefit of anything. 500 million in sales is not a vote for thinner over thicker; it's a vote for iPhones as a whole, great benefits and not-so-great issues we have to tolerate if we want an iPhone. Else...
Suicides are up so clearly more people want to kill themselves
Murders are up so clearly more people want to kill each other
Oil sales are up so clearly people want higher-priced gas
War casualties are up so clearly more people want to fight wars
Drug use is up so clearly more people want to use drugs
Government revenue is up so clearly more people want bigger government
World population is up so clearly more people want bigger crowds
Windows OS far outsells OS X, so clearly Windows is far better than OS X
Android devices far outsell iOS devices, so clearly Android is much more desirable than iOS
And on and on.
People can't buy thicker iPhones because there are no such choices. Roll out an iPhone 6 at- say- the thickness of the iPhone 5s and cram that space with battery to deliver a benefit of better battery life and see what people choose. Even in this thread, you can see lots of people longing for battery life instead of "thinner". How do we get thinner? By shrinking the thing that takes up most of the space inside the iPhone. What is that? The battery. How can we shrink the battery? By engineering more energy efficiency into the chips. What's that get us? The spin of "thinnest" with "about the same battery life". How about: "just as thin as the iPhone 5s with double the battery life"? Which would we rather have "even thinner" or "double the battery life"?
What for? Gimmick? Current LED does the same (turn on LED for Alert in Accessibility)
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Well, use the bumper.
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what for? the look? No one complained about iPhone 5/5s bezels.
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People can buy a thin iPhone 6 and put it in a case for that adds battery life. Then they will be happy (or miserable, but it will be because they like being miserable). Those who like the thin iPhone 6 can enjoy their iPhone 6 without the case. Everyone's happy. Problem solved.
But a thick iPhone 6 can't be made thinner, so only the ones obsessed with thickness would have a chance at happiness.
The modeling industry. They been pushing models to become thinner and thinner over the years. This gives an unrealisitic perception that ultra thin is how everyone should look and how all products should be.
Hmmm, if the profile is thin enough and the battery is thinner, this might allow people to carry two iPhones in the same pocket for all-day usability!
I'm pretty serious when I say this: I would love a phone that opens up into two touch screens. So, this is like have two phones in your pocket, as you said! The way I see it is, you have a normal 4" or 4.8" screen. At the bottom, there is a hinge that connects to another 4" or 4.8" screen. When not in use, the bottom screen would fold on top of the other screen. The added benefit of the additional screen is, when folded over each other (i.e. not in use), both screens are protected! Having a thin, phone, like you suggest, would allow for this design.
Kind of like how other handset manufacturers are spinning screen size. Most people would realize bigger and bigger screens are not practical for phones but that is how many manufacturers are spinning size to get people to buy and to manipulate them into thinking the phones are better (look how big the screen is!).
Also, what will be "innovation" if Apple just make a bigger phone to accommodate a bigger battery? Fandroids will laugh all over that. The difficulty is that you make a thinner phone but will not sacrifice battery life. That's Innovation...like Macbook Air 12 hr battery life, no one even comes close to that on a laptop...
If that's the case i'll likely pass. In 2014 a high end smartphone should at least be coming with 2600mAh battery. it will sell like hot cakes good for them.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Sure we can put them in battery cases. However, probably many doing that would rather NOT. They'd rather have that added battery power inside the phone itself. They could get the same amount of battery power out of an overall thinner case by eliminating the multiple walls between phone and battery case.
And again, is there a genuine big segment of "everybody" that covets an iPhone case even thinner than iPhone 5s? Is the 5s too thick for many? I just don't see that gripe ANYWHERE.
If there is enough of those "everybody" people wanting thinner, Apple could have modestly thinned it from the iPhone 5s "thick" and use the increase in width & height of bigger-screen iPhones to add battery life. So instead of a dramatic thinning, they could still get to spin "thinnest" and add the terrific spin of dramatically improved battery life.
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Next thing to go will probably be the 3.5mm headphones plug, and the signal will be wireless/bluetooth/other or via lightning port (maybe the whole beats by dre acquisition will be helpful in the process?).
If this thinner trend will keep going on on apple mobile device I really hope they'll improve the strength, because I predict much more 'bent iphones' than now.
Btw, what's the purpose of small thickness for a big phone besides marketing and a bit of weight? You can't put it in your pocket anyway. Maybe it's just me, but the 5c it's just perfect, it feels awesome.
If this thinner trend will keep going on on apple mobile device I really hope they'll improve the strength, because I predict much more 'bent iphones' than now.
Btw, what's the purpose of small thickness for a big phone besides marketing and a bit of weight? You can't put it in your pocket anyway. Maybe it's just me, but the 5c it's just perfect, it feels awesome.
wafer thin
Isn't this just what is said every year, this could be 2012 , or 2016 and you'd be saying the exact same thing right?
Personally, I'd like my phone to be as thin and flexible as a credit card, maybe slightly thinner and slightly more flexible.
How thick do you want yours to be? A couple of inches, like a stone tablet?
Isn't this just what is said every year, this could be 2012 , or 2016 and you'd be saying the exact same thing right?
Personally, I'd like my phone to be as thin and flexible as a credit card, maybe slightly thinner and slightly more flexible.
How thick do you want yours to be? A couple of inches, like a stone tablet?
Have you tried it? Might as well have your whole house light up in the middle of the night.
For the first time i touched the new ipod touch and it felt very comfortable and solid. Would not mind the 6 coming in at the same thin factor
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
I'm not saying thicker, nor "stone tablet" smart *ss. The point is simple. Apple always wants to make everything thinner. iDevice users often express a great desire for longer battery life. Those are in almost direct conflict.
Here was a prime opportunity to make the 6 a little thinner (so Apple could still get to spin "thinnest ever") while filling the expanding width & height (of bigger-screen iPhones) with more battery. Instead, if rumors are to be believed, Apple chose to dramatically thin the new ones and we're assuming another round of "thinnest ever while maintaining the same battery life".
Take a poll of objective people and I bet the vote for "same thickness" or "slightly thinner" with "much longer battery life" would significantly thrash, "thinnest possible body with the same battery life."
To get what you want requires innovations beyond Apple. Someone else is going to have to innovate a new kind of battery (or energy storage) that is that thin. OR, Apple is going to have strip power features out of the iPhone so that it can run on the trickle of energy from something like a solar cell or similar. That would also likely have pitiful structural integrity, meaning phones will be breaking from just sitting down on them (back pocket) or even bending out of shape by playing a game with too much enthusiasm.
But I hope you eventually get what you want. I can't see me being interested in a phone that thin but I never take a mentality of what I want is what everyone should want… unlike some people.
The 5S battery is already at 2 days.
I prefer thiner.
Also, a thiner backlight, means more space for battery.
iPhone is very thin to begin with, will makeing 0.0001mm thinner worth all that??
It will likely work fine, but....
It will likely work fine, but....
Oh, definitely not! The rMini's color gamut was an inside job with Samsung terrorist!