New iPhone 8 Dummy Video Surfaces as Third-Party Companies Start Developing Clones

[bushman4]

Be assured that if Apple moves the Touch ID button to the rear of the iPhone many people will not buy it

It's hard to believe that Apple would follow in Samsung footsteps and make the same mistake

 

[fokmik]

'Leaker Benjamin Geskin this morning shared images of what he says is an iPhone 8 clone that was designed based on an early iPhone 8 prototype model"
So its a clone BASED on an EARLY proto !!

 

[raghu8912]

This is the worst-looking of the possible prototypes I've seen. With that said, I'd still buy it if it had wireless charging, OLED screen, and a few more killer features.

One in the video is worst looking ? I like what i see in the video, i don't like Touch ID on the back.

 

[rpe33]

Am I the ONLY one who sees that the phone in the video STILL looks like the 6, 6s and 7?

Aside from the fact that it's a rectangle, I don't see it.

 

[raghu8912]

More or less my thinking. Fingerprint sensor = fail. If that ends up being the case, I will wait for the 8S when they've figured out how to put it on the front. Bezelless isn't worth touchID on the back. I don't care about bezelless that much.

Phone with out bezels is the most innovative feature that Samsung GS8 has, people love it, whats wrong with Finger Print sensor on the back ?
Sarcasm.

 

[WatchFromAfar]

Be assured that if Apple moves the Touch ID button to the rear of the iPhone many people will not buy it

It's hard to believe that Apple would follow in Samsung footsteps and make the same mistake

Samsung's mistake was positioning it next to their camera lens so you always smudged it. A central location solves that mistake

 

[mscice]

those bezels?? where is side to side like the galaxy s8

 

[raghu8912]

Be assured that if Apple moves the Touch ID button to the rear of the iPhone many people will not buy it

It's hard to believe that Apple would follow in Samsung footsteps and make the same mistake

Samsung GS8 is the best smartphone ever made, and you don't like it ? Bezel less phone is all people want, they don't care if the Finger Print sensor is on the back or the Retina scan can be tricked to unlock the phone using a photo.

 

[roland.g]

Be assured that if Apple moves the Touch ID button to the rear of the iPhone many people will not buy it

It's hard to believe that Apple would follow in Samsung footsteps and make the same mistake

You are foolish without defining 'many' in thinking people will choose not to buy the iPhone over that. The headphone jack didn't stop people like everyone said it would. In fact Samesung mocked it prerelease in August when they should have been worrying about their batteries, and then followed suit. People will buy iPhones because they do and moving the sensor to the back if that is what happens isn't slowing that train down. You may have come objectors but they won't make a dent.

 

[Applebot1]

I'm confident the Touch ID will be intergrated into the screen and if there is a sensor on the back then that's for wireless charging.

But who knows these days with Apple!

 

[uscgrad]

The main issue with this is the white front. If it was all black the small bezel wouldn't look so strange.

 

[_Refurbished_]

They should put the display on the back of the phone with the Touch ID button on the bottom. The front of the phone can house the Apple Logo, the camera, flash, and text. Here's a mockup I made a while back:

 

[aaronhead14]

These look like iPhone knockoffs.

 

[DNichter]

The one in the video looks pretty nice as long as the stainless steel on the sides is black. Seems like a pretty good progression to me. I don't really know what people are expecting at this point.

 

[DaveOP]

I'm still not buying Touch ID on the back. It's just not ergonomic, and it doesn't seem like something Apple would do. Obviously I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.

How would that even work as a home button? Pushing against the back with your index just wouldn't work. The thumb works because you're pushing the phone against your palm.

They would have a software home button on the front, likely. This is how the Pixel and S8 handle it. The S8 has haptic feedback (not as good at the iPhone 7, but not bad) and an area on the screen you can press to go home.

 

[MH01]

I so hope the rumours are wrong, that looks awful

 

[Beenblacklisted]

I'm still not buying Touch ID on the back. It's just not ergonomic, and it doesn't seem like something Apple would do. Obviously I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.

How would that even work as a home button? Pushing against the back with your index just wouldn't work. The thumb works because you're pushing the phone against your palm.

technically apple is the one to tell YOU whether a feature is ergonomic or not. How dare you speak out against almighty.!

 

[spherox]

Apple integrated the antenna into the hinge in the 12" MacBook so why do we still have the plastic antenna lines on the iPhone?!

 

[pat500000]

Wth is this? Pillsbury doughboy? Press your finger onto his little bellybutton and it goes "whoo hoo hoo."

 

[IJ Reilly]

It's like each new iPhone looks worse than the previous one.

It's like each new fantasy rendering is more desperate than the previous one.

 

[mi7chy]

It'll be ironic if the real one turns out fuglier than the fake.

 

[FelixDerKater]

Is that a Pixel 2?

 

[apolloa]

Gotta say the back of the iPhone in that render is an utter total design disaster! The Apple logo should be removed and a small printed one placed near the bottom. That flash looks really oddly placed too!
I'll wait for next years iPhone 9 5.3" model with the scanner under the OLED screen and for a lot less money.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

I'm still not buying Touch ID on the back. It's just not ergonomic, and it doesn't seem like something Apple would do. Obviously I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.

How would that even work as a home button? Pushing against the back with your index just wouldn't work. The thumb works because you're pushing the phone against your palm.

It only seems stupid because we're conditioned to expect it where Apple chose to put it originally. If the iPhone that rolled out that feature had built it into the back and now this new iPhone 8 was going to shift it to the front, people would be writing how stupid that is, how it's going to have a lot of finger oils building up in a single spot on the device, how we can't unlock it as we get it out of our pocket anymore, etc.

It's no big deal. Apple could move it out to a dongle or into an add-on case if they wanted to do that. There would be a bunch of gripes about the change and then it would magically "start growing on me" as the launch approaches and the rumors align that Apple is really doing it. Then Apple rolls it out, spins how smart it is to move it to a dongle or case, and most of "us" would be deeming it genius and "how did we ever get by with it on the front lower center" by about the first or second day of release. Chime in a few: "I thought I was going to hate it the new way... but now that I've got to see it, it makes perfect sense to me." Apple announces record sales by the first Monday and 10 guys are working overtime in every subsequent thread shouting down anyone continuing to fault the change. We know how this goes. Every. Single. Time.

Look at all of the "it's ugly" posts at the mockup- which is pretty consistent with every rumor about how the next iPhone will look before "we" start actually believing that IS how it is going to look. Then, Apple rolls it out pretty much looking as rumored and it's a stampede of "shut up and take my money" followed by choruses of "best iPhone ever."

 

[itsmilo]

That bezel on the sides tho ... and the touch id below the apple logo looks like crap and reminds me of a glory hole