Once again, what do people want? It's a rectangle with a screen. You want a foldable triangle or what? This is as far as it's going to go with phones.
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New Dummy Video Gives Yet Another Look at Prospective iPhone 8 Design
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Once again, what do people want? It's a rectangle with a screen. You want a foldable triangle or what? This is as far as it's going to go with phones.
Am I the only on who isn't impressed with the design? It lacks a wow factor. The Galaxy S8 has a significant wow factor and it's starting to look like iPhone won't be the best looking phone on the market soon...
If the phone is going to be slightly thicker – which I actually like – why is the protruded camera still a thing? Can't they fit it or it performs better that way?
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Ugh, that intruding ear speaker and the crazy camera bump.... What happened to Apple's products being symmetrically beautiful?
Hmm, using these measurements with my callipers and my 6S in its Apple leather case, this iPhone dummy is wider whilst the S8 is longer. I think this iPhone will look a million times better with an anodised aluminium colour like black or silver.
Do they sit around every year thinking of new ways to make the camera even uglier? 
So was the iphone 4, and the iphones before it.
yet they were simple to use, made for normal people, and looked decidedly different to the DROIDs, the Galaxys of the time. a 5 year old could figure out how to use the iphone back then. today? im not sure its that intuitive.
in the same way that the iPod looked different and sexy compared to other mp3 players at the time...or how the imac looked different to the wireboxes of pcs that it competed with.
i wish they'd differentiate themselves more and not be in the same league as the galaxy. mature tech or not, its possible.
see the mac vs pc 'race' back in mid 2000s.
i genuinely 'wanted' a mac...even though id been using computers for legit a decade already back then. and it surely wasnt because the mac had the best screen ratio, or the best processors for the price.
After 30 seconds, I couldn't take anymore, especially with the obnoxious music.
I hope the camera bump isn't still present.
Yeah, I don't understand why that wouldn't be more/as important as the dual lens thing, or the whole 3d touch stuff.
It's not edge to edge if it has "almost no bezels", also known as "bezels".
I agree, if they go with this it's essentially just keeping the iphone 6 design, which was boring from the beginning.
But, if you look at Apple designs since the iPhone 4, they've all sort of been duds if you ask me.
I imagine it's a "conservation of mass" issue. The components have to go somewhere else if you shrink the width and height.
I want to concur here as well. I don't really need it to eliminate bezels, but don't pretend about it. If it's like what we've seen guessed at, it still has bezels.
After having seen a few of these, I hit mute before I hit play.
I also scrubbed through the video rather than watch it in real time.
Additionally, for the love of all that is holy, Apple had better not call it the iPhone 8.
I'm worried about this phone named the iPhone 8 alongside the iPhone 7s. What happens next year when the iPhone 8 is due?
I, for one, am really looking forward to a larger screen without the larger package. What Apple is probably going to do for AR is going to take Google years to catch up with. This is probably going to be a phone worth getting excited about. I keep using the word "probably" because it is all speculation still. We don't know.
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I think it's all going to hinge on how little bezel there is. I don't really care about bezel, but it's clearly where high end phones are trying to innovate. Edge to edge screen is what people want, and the S8 does it on the sides but not the top or bottom.
A lot of iPad Pro users would say You suck. Tens of millions of people buy the ipad pro.
I think johny ive is getting old and busy with move to the apple park campus