New iPhone 5 Cases Suggest Longer and Wider Form Factor

[fertilized-egg]

I have the iP4, and my buddy has the SII. The iPhone walks all over the samsung when it comes to battery life.

I use the old Galaxy S and One problem with that phone is that its stand by battery life seems decent, especially if you manage the power issue carefully, but as soon as you read bright stuff on your display the battery goes down fast. So it's hard to tell the whole story just from the static battery life testing. But yes, iPhone 4 does last a few hours longer than the Galaxy S when it comes to surfing the web.

While movie directors and electronics designers are a strange comparison and a little off topic, I would have have to agree with you taste in directors. Nolan is my favorite living director.

I don't know if he's my favorite and I am not that big on his Batman as others, but I really loved Memento and, to a lesser extent, Inception. In any case, he's definitely a director whose movies I'd watch just because he's directing.

 

[mandis]

And how did they achieve the financial success? By making a series of appealing products. When you have a successful history of delivering results, people begin to trust you.

A lot of companies have achieved large financial success only to be followed by a larger financial failure. RIM, Nokia, The Ms Windows Mobile Platform, are just a few recent examples of this. What I'm trying to say is that annual profits or stock market value are not valid selection criteria for technology.

In other words, you think Nokia and RIM should be dominating the market since they are considered the best at reception and battery performance, which is the opposite of the market trend.

I don't think any one company should dominate the market. Monopoly is bad for consumers. If you're a mac user you should know this.

I don't think you're being pedantic. It's just that you're trying to use own judgement criteria when the market says otherwise.

Market trends are often followed by the uninterested or the uninformed (or both). Self conscious people on the other hand make informed decisions which at times follow or oppose the market trends.

Back in 2004, In a world of Microsoft Windows, I and most of my colleagues chose to switch to the mac. This was a decision against the market trends of the time. We made our decision based on the advantages of the osx platform over windows in regards to Adobes CS and Vectorworks. According to you we should have simply upgraded our pcs...

 

[mandis]

Thoose numbers are complete BULLS**T!

I have the iP4, and my buddy has the SII. The iPhone walks all over the samsung when it comes to battery life.

The Nokia E6 has fine battery life, but with 3G usage it drains it FAST.

The numbers are as advertised by the phone manufacturers.

I bet an SII owner will claim the opposite...

 

[Reach9]

I hope this shuts up whoever wanted an iPhone 4S, or was thinking that the iPhone 5 won't be a major update.

From all the recent rumors, i believe the iPhone 5 will completely exceed the iPhone 4 more than we imagined.

Also, i hope this puts away all the "4S, 4GS" or the "S" label people have put on the device. There is no tick-tock pattern guys, every iPhone is major.

This might actually be my most ideal iPhone.

 

[Bytor65]

I don't know if he's my favorite and I am not that big on his Batman as others, but I really loved Memento and, to a lesser extent, Inception. In any case, he's definitely a director whose movies I'd watch just because he's directing.

The Prestige is my favorite Nolan film. I don't see any modern director that is producing as consistently interesting work. He brings quality writing and directing to the table and where he has had that level of control the result is usually superb.

 

[roow110]

I did some messing around in photoshop, and here is what the iphone 4 would look like it it were that size and with a 4 inch screen.

 

[mac9000]

I fail to see how a company's financial success guarantees the quality and competitive performance of a yet unreleased product. Take the iPhone 4 for example: It is a great device at everything other than being a phone. This is mostly due to its signal reception issues and low battery performance both of which are the basic deciding factors for choosing a phone.

I'm not trying to be pedantic, but It should go without saying that when a self-respecting person decides to shed a ton of money on a purchase they do so after some thorough market research.

Low battery performance? According to every review I have heard and my own experience, the iPhone has the best battery life because it is not user serviceable (a sacrifice I would make). And the antenna issue was hardly legitimate. I couldn't replicate the issue, and neither could anyone else on Macrumors I saw.

Either way, the phone is becoming obsolete. This system has been around for over 100 years. In that time, IP has become superior. Sure people will still use phone numbers for a while, but phone users don't actually talk much.

 

[mac9000]

I hope this shuts up whoever wanted an iPhone 4S, or was thinking that the iPhone 5 won't be a major update.

From all the recent rumors, i believe the iPhone 5 will completely exceed the iPhone 4 more than we imagined.

Also, i hope this puts away all the "4S, 4GS" or the "S" label people have put on the device. There is no tick-tock pattern guys, every iPhone is major.

This might actually be my most ideal iPhone.

I would never buy the 4s. It's a total trap like the 3Gs was. No new features, just faster.

 

[mac9000]

Stereo speaker?

Isn´t that just one speaker and one mic, like on all the past iPhones?

Oh right, one of them is a mic. Even then, the iPT has its mic next to the camera, not on the bottom like the iPhone. There's no need to have it on the bottom obviously.

If any real images come out with two holes on the bottom, it's definately an iPhone.

 

[mac9000]

i hope that hole is for a thunderbolt port and not a camera hole
sorry i just had my 3rd shot of jim beam bourbon at happy hour bar
my freind has reminded me not to leave the iphone 5 prototype behind this time

Everyone has successfully ignored the troll

 

[OutSpoken]

Looks like an iPod Touch...

I agree, plus have you held one before?...not very comfortable imo.

I really don't see whats so awesome about this mock up.

 

[fertilized-egg]

The numbers are as advertised by the phone manufacturers.

I bet an SII owner will claim the opposite...

No, it's just the fact. Here's web browsing battery life test, which is a good barometer of how long a phone lasts while you're using it.

http://blog.gsmarena.com/showdown-s...ng-battery-life-championship-not-so-brightly/

Web browsing battery life test:
Apple iPhone 4 – 7:40 h
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc – 5:25 h
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II – 4:59 h (Opera Mobile browser)
LG Optimus 2X – 4:54 h
LG Optimus Black – 4:30 h
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II – 4:22 h (stock browser)
Samsung I9000 Galaxy S – 4:06 h

As you can see the Galaxy phone fare the worst here and iPhone is a head and shoulders ahead of the pack.

 

[DeathChill]

No, it's just the fact. Here's web browsing battery life test, which is a good barometer of how long a phone lasts while you're using it.

http://blog.gsmarena.com/showdown-s...ng-battery-life-championship-not-so-brightly/

Web browsing battery life test:
Apple iPhone 4 – 7:40 h
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc – 5:25 h
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II – 4:59 h (Opera Mobile browser)
LG Optimus 2X – 4:54 h
LG Optimus Black – 4:30 h
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II – 4:22 h (stock browser)
Samsung I9000 Galaxy S – 4:06 h

As you can see the Galaxy phone fare the worst here and iPhone is a head and shoulders ahead of the pack.

Wow, the iPhone destroyed it by two hours and forty minutes! I guess Samsung is having real issues with battery life if the iPhone 4 has low battery performance and it still beats the Samsung that badly.

 

[koobcamuk]

Does everyone on this thread have fat fingers and poor vision?

Being as most forumites are American, I am sure that they are at least one of the two above statements.

 

[stevenlangley1]

I like it. I wasn't planning on getting this update, but if it looks like this and performs, I'm game.

 

[Darrylmcmullin]

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As a apple fan I can't say I will be upgrading to ip5 if it looks like the touch or iPad 2. iPhone 4 is the best they have made and I have had all gen from day 1. Always the first inline sorry apple I won't be this time. If I wanted a breadboard I'd buy a galaxy 11

 

[Shearwater]

Retro......

Surely if a new iP5 has a curved back ala iPad2...it will be an iP3??.

..and where do people get iP4g or iP4s from???

 

[MagnusF]

Surely if a new iP5 has a curved back ala iPad2...it will be an iP3??.

..and where do people get iP4g or iP4s from???

What the hell are you trying to say?

 

[lilo777]

Wow, the iPhone destroyed it by two hours and forty minutes! I guess Samsung is having real issues with battery life if the iPhone 4 has low battery performance and it still beats the Samsung that badly.

It's much simpler than that. iPhone having a tiny screen compared to other phones obviously has huge advantage. But it's just a trade-off as opposed to technical superiority and as we know many people choose bigger screen size. Another issue with this test is that they set brightness on all phones at 50%. This is an amateurish approach. All screens are calibrated differently. Besides, SAMOLED+ screens have few orders of magnitude higher contrast ratio than LCDs thus making it easier for eyes to read at the lower levels of brightness.

 

[fertilized-egg]

It's much simpler than that. iPhone having a tiny screen compared to other phones obviously has huge advantage.

It has been said before but the iPhone display size is bigger than its diagonal indicates because of the aspect ratio. The Galaxy S' 4 inch display, for example, is bigger but nowhere big enough to justify the 3+ hour battery life difference.

It's much simpler than that: Apple made iPhone and iOS more battery efficient.

 

[Michael Scrip]

Why this is another bogus report.

The case is fake because the iPhone won't have a bigger screen. All you have to is apply a small of logic to see that:

1. Apple won't dilute the pixel density because the whole theory of the Retina display 'brand' is that the ppi was determined to be close to exactly the right density of 326 ppi so that pixels are indistinguishable by the human eye. So how/why would Apple turn around now and say 'oh well we didn't really need those extra pixels so we are going to dilute the density down to 300 ppi (for example) so that we can make the screen a little larger'.

So... Apple is locked into a puny 3.5" screen forever because they don't wanna mess up their PPI ?

Most people don't even know what PPI is.... but they know which phones have larger screens...

I hope you're wrong... because I'd love a larger iPhone. Even if it was "only" 300ppi.

 

[mrelwood]

The case is fake because the iPhone won't have a bigger screen. All you have to is apply a small of logic to see that:

1. Apple won't dilute the pixel density because the whole theory of the Retina display 'brand' is that the ppi was determined to be close to exactly the right density of 326 ppi so that pixels are indistinguishable by the human eye.

Yeah, 'coz 325 ppi would look all grainy. It must be the exact number 326.

The ppi was just doubled from the 3Gs. 3Gs did not just happen to have precisely half the magical ppi that an eye can detect.

Do you think viewing distance could have anything to do with anything?

 

[Prof.]

If the iPhone 5 has a larger screen, which I doubt it will, I guess we can kiss better battery life goodbye...

 

[vitzr]

..and where do people get iP4g or iP4s from???

These designations come out of thin air... with a dash of humor in my case.

After all they don't call it "MacRumors" for nothing

 

[daveathall]

I'm of the opinion, and I accept it is only my opinion, that most people would want a larger screen, and that most people that visit Mac rumours would probably not, I've read about pixel size/density/angle of view etc etc, but, the trend for mobile (cell) phones, like it or not are for the larger 4" or even slightly larger screens, all the other big players have now larger screens. IMHO, if Apple don't follow suit, they will be left behind. I think that they will go larger.

Wonder how many posts it will be before someone explains "Apple doesn't follow suit"?