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New iPhone 8 Glimpse Combines Leaked Parts to Show Off What Device Might Look Like at Launch
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It is useless, If I want distorted **** I can put masking tape on the side of my screen for that.
It is NO less useless than the black bars. The difference is that it looks better. WAY better. To argue otherwise is futile.
Of course, but you leave out the upper and lower bezels of the s8 which are much bigger than the rumored iphone 8. Which almost has no bezels. That has an incredible futuristic look. To argue otherwise is incredulously "fan-boyish.
Because getting rid of bezels is the only way to deliver a big screen in a small(ish) form factor. Which is pretty much your requirement of a comfortably held phone - unlike the gargantuan Plus models which are an ergonomic flop.
Ugly. Just ugh.Not sure why people aren't understanding the cut-out at the top. This:
By no way this would ever happen.
Why is it ugly?
iPhones always had a "forehead" , and now it shows a few signs and it is ugly?
Are we looking at the same picture?!?!?
Some people are really exaggerating. Bezels should be there to make our lives easier* not having them for aesthetics is dumm.
(*) and by easier I don't mean to have a 5+" screen. I will never have a iPhone Plus, it is ridiculous big, for handling and for having it in the pocket. If I need a "big" screen, that's what the Macbook is for (I don't have the need to overcompensate ;-) )
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No, you just need an expensive macbook AND an expensive iphone.
No overcompensation at all...
I was indeed exaggerating for comic effect - I am a bezel fan myself as indicated in my earlier interaction in this thread.
Though FTR, the bottom bezel on the S8 is significantly larger than the one on this leak/mockup iPhone.
I don't disagree with you about the top and bottom - I was just referring to the sides. Either way, I suppose it's all speculation until it's revealed.
Why expensive?
Expensive is relative.
I bought my brand new base 13" MBP Early 2011, the first one ever with thunderbolt, in May 2011 for ~850€ (Discounted from 1150€ in a promotional sale) and sold it recently for ~550€. That is a mere 300€ in almost 6 years or 50€/year or 4,17€/month.
Note: I actually upgraded it myself to SSD and 8GB RAM, these cost aren't included.
In January bought a base 13" MBP 2016 for ~1250€ (again discounted from ~1700€) and I plan to use it as long as I can and I will wait for some promotion when I am ready to buy a new one... there is no rush, and I don't have to have the newest and shiniest each time a new MBP is released.
My first and current iPhone is a SE bought also this January. Before that I have had a Nokia 5310 XpressMusic bought new in 2008 for ~250€, yep that is 9 years with the same phone (it still works and battery holds nicely).
I waited for a good price (the iPhone 7 32GB is too expensive at 739€). ... and guess what? I will "upgrade" it when a good price for the iPhone 7, 7s or 8 comes in... which model I will buy depends on features, handling and so on.
So, as I said, expensive is relative.
Well then. Good luck when you try not to cover media control on the screen or touch the video player or obstruct subtitles or parts of controls... the list go on and on.
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Because of the so awkwardly placed clocks and white spaces where icons should be? That clock would better be in one side of those two cut outs rather than below the speaker. But again, extra programming effort for just this version of iPhone.
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You know, your hand will cover some area of your phone regardless of how you hold it. Previously, these areas are bezels. No big deal, I still can see whatever I need to. Now no bezels. Hand WILL cover parts of screen areas, causing accidental touch. And no, palm rejection cannot be applied here.
I can tell you, when I try to watch YouTube in landscape while laying on bed, I need to carefully choose the way I handle the phone to not cover the screen and avoid triggering video control. This is on an iPhone 6s Plus which does have bezels. Can’t imagine how Apple solve this problem in this special edition iPhone.
I've always used chinky cases on my smartphones because i end up accidentally stuff if I don't. Bezel-free = useless for folks like me that have less than stellar skills required to keep fingers in ideal spots on a tiny slippery screen.
Being usability is one of the priorities of Apple (at least it was), I am starting to think that some people want unreasonable bezels or bezel-free iPhones only to see it failing (as if they really were pro-Samsung/Android or whatever)
There was a time, a fantastical time, where Apple did the choices without hearing the consumers and definitely not following other manufacturers. I hope the current trend ends and they go back to what it was in pre-Cook era.
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So basically from now on, every iPhone (and other brands once they adopt this technology) will look the same. Only software will make a difference
The S8 pulled it off pretty well so I don't know why Apple can't. Again, this is a big improvement and maybe the real thing will look a lot better -- but based on these leaks and models the S8 is still the more attractive design.
I completely agree.
I can't believe people are defending an inferior design (with bezels)...a bezel-free slate of glass has been Apple's (specifically Jonathan Ive's) goal from day one. Samsung delivered, and it's stunning. If Apple doesn't, it will be perceived as inferior.
Apple doesn't do things until it makes sense to do so, Samsung does crap even when it is half assed, like pushing really horrible OLED screens for 3-4 years before finally getting things right.
Bezel less is not an "the objective", that's a spec point. But, I'm sure Androidites love their specs heh.
Having warped crap on the side, and yes I've used the S8, means it is not bezel less either btw.
Not to mention that it makes the phone structurally weaker (but, who cares about this heh).
Not to mention the idiotic back fingerprint scanner.
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What tech, fingerprint scanner under screen? You do know there is some hardware under the screen that this software has to interact with and that Apple design this hardware too.
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So, look over function hey, good for you to admit this.
So, you lose front fingerprint scanner for a dumbass misplaced back one, don't really gain much of actual usable screen space because of reflections and make your phone structurally weaker because of the bent corners; fine user experience there bud.
Maybe get a course in rhetoric next time, cause you need it bad.
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And the side curves are almost non existent and thus has less reflections, which means it would have more usable front and top space.
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Well, let those bezel hate guys continue to hate. One day, they will realize how painful a bezel-less design could be.
iPhone could be a piece of art, after it fulfills the purpose of being a phone.
iPhone could be a piece of art, after it fulfills the purpose of being a phone.
Cause the illusion of no bezel trumps all other considerations in their world; nothing else matters.
Well, you're 100% wrong.
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Correct, these people don't seem to have any imagination in that regard, so they just fill every pixel with the same image.
But it at least serves to show every spot that has pixels.
Edit: nevermind
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