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New iPhone 6 Images Depict Rear Shell and Front Panel Together for the First Time

I'd also like to point out all the people who said the lost iPhone 4 prototype was ugly and now a lot of those people now say that the iPhone 4 was the "best looking iPhone ever". Same thing is going to happen here.

antonioj1015 said:
I mean Apple, the big Apple the saviour to so many people or whatever god form you wish to put apple in, haven't come up with an alternative to hiding those screws in sooooooo many years.
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They have actually, it's called industrial grade adhesive. Don't give them any ideas, because at that point if you break the phone at all you can't replace anything. That's what they use on the battery for the 15" Retina MacBook Pro. You can't replace that battery without replacing the top case too.
 
the whole "Take my money" thing.... I get the feeling Apple owns a money tree, and everyone like to take the fruit without thinking first.

It takes more guts to just walk away.
 
flatfoot99 said:
wrong...

scratched/cracked screens are a rare issue, really?

Did you see the video by that kid Marques? His screen looked a lot like this one and didnt seem very fragile to me. Try bending glass.
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"scratched" does not equal "cracked". You're trying to inject "cracked" as if I said that. I did not.

Cracked screens are very common and Sapphire is not going to change that. Scratched screens seems unusual, even rare (to me anyway). I haven't personally surveyed every iPhone user but subjectively, I don't see or hear (or read here) many griping about scratching their iPhone screens. I do see, hear and read plenty griping about cracked screens.

Sapphire is an attempt to solve the scratched-screen "problem" (is it a mainstream problem?) but "we" seem to be jumping to some (wrong) conclusion that it is going to be more shatter resistant too. It's not.
 
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Finally,an improved version of the original BEST design

As an Apple fan, I always thought the double glass bricky designs of the past few were inferior to the original(while always improving the technical aspects).

I'm glad Apple finally has come around......
 
Mavelous said:
As an Apple fan, I always thought the double glass bricky designs of the past few were inferior to the original(while always improving the technical aspects).

I'm glad Apple finally has come around......
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Completely agree. It just seems logically inferior to have a square design, a box with sharp corners will never be as ergonomic as curved edges like the original iPhone and the 3g. And when putting this in my pocket, the sharp edges do stick out, whereas in a curved phone wouldn't.
 
matrix07 said:
The humanity. lol. We will be extinct one day.

I'm sure many are Android fanatics that come here because of the fear of iPhone 6. I can smell their fear in the air. :p
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There's only few Android fans who visit this site... Mostly they are paid Samesung shills hiding as Android fanatics.
 
wtf

Looks like it was put together by a 5 yr old. horrible workmanship. No way that would fly if jobs was around. This whole protruding lens thing has me very suspicious.
 
iLilana said:
Looks like it was put together by a 5 yr old. horrible workmanship. No way that would fly if jobs was around. This whole protruding lens thing has me very suspicious.
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Sigh. Read. It's just some parts that they assembled to show what the built device might look like.
 
cmaier said:
I'm sure if I dumped half the heavily used and prototype parts of a iPhone 5s in front of you with some glue and asked you to assemble a phone it wouldn't look so good either.
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I've always been a fan of the bezelled sides, it's distinctively Apple. These shots whether true or not look like a copy of pretty much every other phone. I don't know what any rumoured 5S prototypes looked like so I can't comment.
 
sixrom said:
Very mundane. It's sure to be hailed as the finest ever.
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Sounds like some people have a case of impossibly-high-yet-vague expectations for hardware.

By all appearances, it's thinner, it's got smoother volume buttons, a more reachable sleep/wake button, a larger display, smaller bezels. This is on top of a razor-sharp display, 64-bit processor that devs still do not fully tap, an imaging system that is arguably second only to the 50% heavier Lumia line, and a home button that reads your fingerprint in half a second.

It's easy to say "meh", but who is doing a better job of consistently, relentlessly improving their hardware? Nobody does design, performance, and imaging like Apple.
 
HobeSoundDarryl said:
"scratched" does not equal "cracked". You're trying to inject "cracked" as if I said that. I did not.

Cracked screens are very common and Sapphire is not going to change that. Scratched screens seems unusual, even rare (to me anyway). I haven't personally surveyed every iPhone user but subjectively, I don't see or hear (or read here) many griping about scratching their iPhone screens. I do see, hear and read plenty griping about cracked screens.

Sapphire is an attempt to solve the scratched-screen "problem" (is it a mainstream problem?) but "we" seem to be jumping to some (wrong) conclusion that it is going to be more shatter resistant too. It's not.
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"Scratching" may be rare, if you're implying a large and deep indention. "Scuffing", however, is not rare at all. Almost all iPhones have some scuffing on their front screens, and a significant number of people use screen protectors to prevent this. Due to my flight suit pocket being near the leg, my screen gets pretty well scuffed to hell and back. It's not noticeable when the phone is on, but it's still annoying.
 
HobeSoundDarryl said:
"scratched" does not equal "cracked". You're trying to inject "cracked" as if I said that. I did not.

Cracked screens are very common and Sapphire is not going to change that. Scratched screens seems unusual, even rare (to me anyway). I haven't personally surveyed every iPhone user but subjectively, I don't see or hear (or read here) many griping about scratching their iPhone screens. I do see, hear and read plenty griping about cracked screens.

Sapphire is an attempt to solve the scratched-screen "problem" (is it a mainstream problem?) but "we" seem to be jumping to some (wrong) conclusion that it is going to be more shatter resistant too. It's not.
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The simple fact that screen protectors are popular shows you that scratched screens are, at least, at the forefront of consumer's minds. I usually don't use one, but my 5S seemed to scratch rativy easily and I am certainly looking forward to a completely scratch proof display.
 
My money.
Take it.

I love the original iPhone look with the silver casing and black front. It always seemed the most premium, I'm glad it's back.
 
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JT24 said:
What does everyone think of this design? I can't be the only one who thinks this phone is ugly as heck.
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Of course you won't be the only one showing a tremendous lack of taste.
Now get out of the way! :rolleyes:

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Yojimbo007 said:
No way in hell this is what the final product will look like..with all those huge gaps at the seams everywhere.. No way in hell !
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Thank you, Sherlock Holmes, but this is mentioned in the article already. So please read BEFORE you post!
 
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