That is a yuge camera wart. Even bigger and uglier than the iPhone 6/6s. Sad. Jobs would have fired somebody over this! We need someone to make Apple great again!
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Look at the picture! That IS a silly design failure.
Yeah, I'll get a lot of push back from fanboys but Apple since Job's passing, despite their monetary success has devolved in terms of design and innovation. Their current success is draft off of Jobs past brilliance.Steve Jobs please come back
I like the bulge. And I like the idea of a further beefed up camera.
Not sure what the killer features will be though.. a slightly better camera, less headphone jack.. the usual speed bump.. What on earth can they add that they haven't already?
Not sure what the killer features will be though.. a slightly better camera, less headphone jack.. the usual speed bump.. What on earth can they add that they haven't already?
I think the real problem isn't accidentally turning off the screen, but accidentally NOT turning off the screen. When pushing the lock button, pressure is put on the opposing side of the phone. On the opposing side of the phone is the volume button. When pressed simultaneously, the volume takes priority and the screen doesn't lock. I'm used to just pressing it as I'm putting it I'm my pocket, so I don't notice that the screen isn't locked. I have have discovered the phone on in my pocket more times since getting the 6s than all other iPhones combined, all the way back to the original iPhone. The new placement is kinda dumb. Lots of people have been complaining on the internet about it.
Aren't you cutting your nose off to spite your face? A Lightning to 3.5 mm headphone adaptor will be a quite small box that costs a tiny fraction of what you have spent on iPhones and headphones. Yes, it will make things a bit bulkier but your investment in headphones very likely also includes things noticeably bulkier than the standard earbuds.
There is a difference between inconvenience and inoperability even though many equate the former with the latter. The right description is that Apple is saving "a few millimetres of thickness" at the cost of making things a bit more inconvenient for maybe 15% of all iPhone users. But I guess that doesn't sound quite as damning as your formulation.
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Keeping the same form factor, they could potentially add water resistance, a front facing flash, IR blaster, VR capabilities, more RAM, and truly wireless charging (ie Watt Up). It would also be nice if the 4.7" model gets OIS.I like the bulge. And I like the idea of a further beefed up camera.
Not sure what the killer features will be though.. a slightly better camera, less headphone jack.. the usual speed bump.. What on earth can they add that they haven't already?
Next year they can hopefully slim down those bezels drastically and integrate the touch sensor into the display.
I'm sure there are lots of other great things too that I would never think of too. I'd imagine they have a team of people who works on big ideas for upcoming iPhones.
Other health sensor would be cool too. I've heard before there was some people working on a method to test blood glucose levels without breaking skin, but I don't know if this is practical at all.
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I remember reading a while back that Apple were aiming for something bolder and if they couldn't pull it off in time they were going to fall back on a design very similar to the iPhone 6 and 6S. Looks like thats what actually happened as I seriously doubt they wanted to release the same shape phone for the 3rd time in a row. This is more of a 6SS and I don't see the lack of headphone jack as a 'feature'. Maybe I will be giving this one a miss.
Finally, if the phone is exactly the same dimensions, what exactly IS the reason for removing a piece of physical hardware? Bigger battery? Additional speaker?
I think Im saving myself for next years OLED display and glass body design
Finally, if the phone is exactly the same dimensions, what exactly IS the reason for removing a piece of physical hardware? Bigger battery? Additional speaker?
I think Im saving myself for next years OLED display and glass body design
And the ugly designs era continues in Apple. Deciders and Designers(yes, including jonny ive) are so arrogant, they are keep trying so so hard to prove themselves as better designers. Same concepts, same designs, just changing few ugly bumps here and there. Apple without Steve is never a complete world! God bless Apple
Has Joni lost his touch? or is Tim just spontaneously rubber-stamping everything coming his way? Sorry but if true, I don't believe a design like this would have ever passed into production before.
I wish Tim would spend less time on his 'politically correct' agenda, and more on the meticulously crafted, gorgeous, flawless and elegant designs we used to see coming out of Cupertino.
Also, are those leakers getting brazen or what.....
I wish Tim would spend less time on his 'politically correct' agenda, and more on the meticulously crafted, gorgeous, flawless and elegant designs we used to see coming out of Cupertino.
Also, are those leakers getting brazen or what.....
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Nope, that's not the same. The 30ping connector was an outdated design much like PATA on hard drives. Also, it's Apple proprietary, so it's OK if they revise their (!) standard...
The 3,5mm, however, is industry standard on literally every device. Apple was stupid enough to change it from GND-MIC-L-R pins to MIC-GND-L-R which required an adapter for existing 4pin 3,5mm plugs.
Furthermore, when you consider Bluetooth an alternative, please educate yourself first: Apple isn't even supporting AptX Bluetooth Audio Codec on the iPhones (although on the macbooks... logic?), for which there is a lot of supported devices which are even listed on http://www.aptx.com/products Apple BT AAC is great as well, but won't stand a chance against AptX HD, which will deliver HD Audio over BT. Unfortunately, Apple isn't always "premium-class". In fact, the iOS Bluetooth stack is far from it.
How about, for ex, reducing top/bottom and side bezel would make a phone easier to handle (and look better). That's a direct benefit of a new design, which will be absent in 2016 iPhone...
Dam right he would have. 3,2,1..... "stop it he is gone!!!! Drop it." Yada, yada, yada. Make sure AAPL is not in your portfolio by August 31st.
There is no one to fill SJ's shoes. Smart investors were out of AAPL by Q2 2015.
No, what people are expecting, or rather wanting, is for Apple to remove the bump by losing this obsession with "thin" and making the phone 1mm thicker, with better battery. It's been said by a huge amount of people since the iPhone 6 but I've has some design anorexia obsession.
What does he do all day?Must it always be a metal slab just as dull as the one before it??? How about glass, wood, carbon fiber, SOMETHING OTHER THAN THIS!!
What does Ive do all day now? This?
Mostly assembles furniture at the new spaceship headquarters or doodles car designs on his 12.7" iPad pro.
It's a bit thicker because it has a bigger battery for the faster processor and it also makes the big camera flat BOOOOM!!!! Trillions of iPhones sold. But in reality it seems like they will just continue with the old outdated trend of making things thinner and over-milking a design that has become incredibly booooring.
I personally prefer not to cringe when I put my phone down face first on a surface and see this beast staring back at me
i agree i still laugh when i see someone carry one of thoes plasma screen size iphones lol...I personally prefer not to cringe when I put my phone down face first on a surface and see this beast staring back at me
Maybe the camera looks like that because the phone will be waterproof. Everything is a trade-off.