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New iPhone 7 Video Offers Side-by-Side Comparison With iPhone 6s

CTHarrryH said:
Why do so many people care what a phone looks like vs. what it does. How shallow can you be - so if it did everything you ever wanted but wasn't beautiful because the camera sticks out you would think it was bad. What a shame. Do you folks wear it around your neck so people can see how pretty it is or other than using it sits in a case in a pocket or purse, etc.
Does it do what you want it to do. How about looking pretty but not functioning - I think you folks would prefer that.
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Do you want your car looks cool? Do you not like cool stuff.

If we just looking function over how it looks, cheap Android phone will do for most people.

The fact this piece of crap lack of functional parts (I.e headphone jack) put me off. Oh and that white line across. Why can't they make it not visible to our eye.
 
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LovingTeddy said:
If we just looking function over how it looks, cheap Android phone will do for most people.
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i suspect people saying that looks don't matter are coming from android. but granted, 90% of people don't even have a sense of great design. they'll eat whatever ugly keyboard blackberry shoves down their throat.

sickening.

and btw, ive is going to be out soon. he already has one foot back in england and only hangs around the new campus.
 
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If the internal hardware kicks ass with faster cpu, better battery life, better camera, more ram, possibly improved screen, I don't care really what it looks like. It goes in a case anyway.

But all those things mentioned are what usually get implemented in "S" version phones.
 
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Just another french fry in the basket,

All tasting pretty much the same.
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MacRumors said:



A new video and images posted to Chinese microblogging site Weibo and picked up this morning by NWE offer a side-by-side comparison of an iPhone 7 casing against Apple's current flagship iPhone 6s.

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Embedded below, the new video runs to over two and a half minutes and gives a much better idea of the prospective design than last week's seven-second clip.

Whatever the origin of the assembled 4.7-inch iPhone 7 unit, it matches the Space Grey of the iPhone 6s, and features the larger camera and repositioned antenna bands seen in previous images and alleged design leaks. It also clearly shows a lack of headphone jack, with a second speaker grille alongside the Lightning port where it used to be.


The model comparison offers an idea of the relative size of the new camera lens and the surrounding bezel that protrudes from the body of the phone. The video and images also line up with previous rumors suggesting the iPhone 7 will retain the dimensions of the iPhone 6s.



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Article Link: New iPhone 7 Video Offers Side-by-Side Comparison With iPhone 6s
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bfreek said:
i suspect people saying that looks don't matter are coming from android. but granted, 90% of people don't even have a sense of great design. they'll eat whatever ugly keyboard blackberry shoves down their throat.

sickening.

and btw, ive is going to be out soon. he already has one foot back in england and only hangs around the new campus.
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Nope, it's just that most people will use a case so it doesn't matter how the phone looks. What matters is iOS and hardware components. That's just me though.

I don't really mind a couple of years of S type updates. S versions are usually the better ones to buy. It's on Apple to learn how to sell them better. The iphone 6 plus, for example, went from a laggy piece of bendable crap to usable with the S version.
 
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Guys, don't you see? We've seen all these "iPhone 7" photos with the bigger camera, no headphone jack, but not a single "iPhone 7 Plus" image.

First of all, I don't think they'll call it "iPhone 7", just "iPhone" and "iPhone Pro". Like they do with their Macs and iPads/iPods (RIP). No more numbers. We'll just denote models by year. "[2016] iPhone". And like MacOS, they'll start naming iOS after places in California.

...and since I'm on a roll, next year they'll call their 10th iPhone "The New iPhone/Pro"!

By the way, storage & pricing just like the iPads: 32GB for $649, and 128GB for $150 extra. The iPhone Pro will come with 128GB, matte black (only available on Pro), dual cameras, but most importantly... a whole new design that hasn't been leaked (because it's fully waterproof, get it?), so we actually have something to be surprised about in September. We'll be so caught off guard we instantly preorder it with our new Apple Watches, forgetting it starts at $899, plus the cost of a new case.

Oh, and speaking of cases. I have my two cents to speak about the loss of the headphone jack. People are upset about not being able to charge and listen to wired headphones at the same time. Apple now already sells a battery case. What's wrong with updating their case to include a headphone port and requisite DAC? So those who want to continue using their current headphones can do so, and charge their phones at the same time, for only $99 more!

As for the iPhone Pro, Apple won't make a battery/headphone case for the same reason they didn't for the iPhone 6 Plus. It already has a bigger battery as a selling point. But what if... Apple doesn't take away the headphone port from the larger phone?!?! It would explain the back and forth we've been hearing in the rumor mills. Again, we've seen evidence of the "iPhone 7" case with no headphone port, but it would be totally Apple to make it and the dual cameras part of the $250 "upgrade".

*drops mic* -[due to carpel tunnel from holding his iPhone 6S Plus with a card-carrying case]
 
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journeyy said:
Can anyone give an explanation how they are going to remove one antenna (line) without losing reception quality? Never read a theory about that.
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I recall reading that they were using a new antenna switching component. I don't know if that anything to do with the external bands.
Question: Are the bands the actual antennas, or do they just allow signal penetration for an antenna below the plastic band?

Personally, this has me worried as does the new modem from Intel. I don't usually like first gen silicon (or products) I prefer to wait for the properly implemented second gen devices. I'm currently using a 5S.

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You know what, I've given up on the protruding camera shpeel. Yeah, it looks ugly. But this is how apple has to compete with the competition. Apple wants the thinness, but Apple also wants the thin body. This is what we're stuck with. Honestly if the phone thickness kept following the thickness of the camera module, we would be in for a huge phone at this rate. I'll take this. It looks better the more I've seen it. It's centered with the corner, and it looks more like it belongs with the aluminum body moving up with the camera. Right now it looks like the camera module is like exposed lol.

The current antenna bands that go right straight across the phone look awful, it's so much better looking now that they're gone. This makes me wonder if cell reception will change at all though. Does less antenna bands mean less reception, or? I've heard nothing but bad/meh things about the iPhone's cell reception, so. It doesn't matter much in day to day use but I've had heard that apparently when the signal is weak, the iPhone is MUCH quicker to drop to 4G/3G/EDGE/1x or even "No Service" while other phones will continue to cling on to weak but still somewhat usable LTE.

I feel like I'm the only person who is falling in love with this design lol.. not enough to get it, but I'd be okay with it if I was forced to buy this (iPhone 6 breaks, etc..)

The only thing that is actually really making me annoyed is the lack of a headphone jack but what can we do about that? If there's an adapter that is nice and compact (not a huge box) that has a 3.5mm headphone jack and a lightning port for charging simultaneously, then I suppose I'll be fine while I wait for lightning headphones to become a little more mainstream. I have Bluetooth headphones right now actually but they're a piece of crap lol. They sound like garbage over Bluetooth so I use the cord with them always. I hate the design of them as well but someone bough them for me as a gift so.
 
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