New Photos and Video of 'iPhone 5' Front Panel Show Minimal Height Increase Over iPhone 4S

[Patriot24]

Still not understanding why they needed to break from the aspect ratio. More laborious to code another AR.

Job security? heh

 

[Steve J0bs]

geed?

You're wearing them wrong!

gdi!

 

[AustinIllini]

When you simply can't innovate, just make it longer.

zzz = $$$

...doesn't help to sue a few people as well.

Well we'll see what comes out, but I'm thinking that there will be a point where Apple will have to go out an innovate again, but right now they can ride LTE for another year as the "new big feature".

 

[Sedrick]

I'm ok with this new design. It should also be wider, but it's ok the way it is. Especially in all black. Certainly better than it was.

I'm interested in how they're going to sell the added height.

 

[Geckotek]

I'm more interested in the unreleased, green iP4 (jk)

I want that screen!!!! Ok, maybe for just a day or two.

 

[JGowan]

I kind of went over this last week... with an image I put together based on the facts...

 

[Geckotek]

EDIT: On closer inspection, the iPhone 5 here looks like a render in this pic. The home button is smaller than the one on the iPhone 4 to the left. So, unless they re-designed the home button to be smaller this generation, the 5 will be both taller and wider than it appears here.

The new home button is smaller. We've already seen comparisons showing this.

 

[Exio]

I'm ok with this new design. It should also be wider, but it's ok the way it is. Especially in all black. Certainly better than it was.

I'm interested in how they're going to sell the added height.

"The new iPhone. Now with 1 more tweet view able on the phone, and another row of icons. The phone, revolutionized.

 

[AppleMark]

I welcome this change. When I put my iphone into my back pocket, I have to dig fairly deeply to get it out.

The pickpockets that have tried to lift your current iphone would probably agree.

 

[jvmxtra]

Please fire designer of iphone 5 if it looks like this.

 

[Mad-B-One]

It's gonna be a phone - that's most important. Now, things I need / want:

- Has to fit in my pocket: check!

- Has to fit into my had: check!

- Has to be available when my contract is up: check!

- Has to be able to make phone calls: check!

- Has to be able to play my music library: check!

So, since there are so many phones which do that, I will probaby stay with Apple.

 

[frankdogg]

i just hope that all of these leaks are wrong and something else shows up at the keynote.

 

[luqtotheman]

looks stupid, what's wrong with the screen size now?

looks like apple ran out of ideas so they changed the screen size

 

[verniesgarden]

I still use other apple products, but I dropped the iphone. This is Mac Forums, not iOS forums.

when will everyone start to realize the iPhone could really be called "macbook pocket" these phones (even android) are mini computers

 

[SpyderBite]

is this still a controlled leak? hahahaha

Folks this is the phone. For those of you hoping for something else.....i think this is all you need.

Would you bet your life on it? Wait a minute. We're in the Interwebs so of course you would.

I doubt there are any controlled leaks, but I wouldn't bet my life on anything I've seen so far until it's directly from the Apple website.

Too many people have machine shop tools and way too much time to dismiss anything as a possible fake regardless of its speculated origin.

 

[Toltepeceno]

I don't think it looks bad at all, need to see the specs for the internals first. I would prefer it a little wider also, but really not bad at all in my humble opinion.

That being said I may get a good used 4s when the price drops only for money reasons.

 

[avanpelt]

Unless Apple introduce some seriously interesting hardware or new features, I just cannot see myself upgrading this year.

I tend to agree. I currently have an off-contract iPhone 4 on Verizon, and I'm very tempted to sell it and buy a 4S on eBay around the time the new one comes out.

I would probably consider staying with the iPhone 4 even; but it looks like there are going to be new features of iOS 6 that won't be compatible with the 4.

I'm concerned that the addition of an LTE radio will adversely impact the battery life of the new iPhone. Another factor in my decision is that I have the latest-gen iPad that I can use when I want to tether my devices and use LTE. The battery life on the latest iPad when tethering over LTE is quite good.

 

[dv8r]

Clearly it makes more sense to have to invert the phone to make sure it's facing up every time you put it in your pocket. /s

Headphone jack on the bottom is the logical placement. The iPod touch had it right.

The last 5 years must have been hell for You. If they "got it right" with the iPod it would have been moved a long time ago.

This is to accommodate users with poor motor skills.

 

[o0jelly0o]

All these people saying this iphone isn't enough to make them upgrade. lol What do you think the next update will be? It will be a lot less of an upgrade than this one, tell you that.

 

[applefanDrew]

Except we'll get less content in landscape orientation. Fine for 16:9 video - as we all spend our days watching movies on the phone? But think about it, stretch a web page horizontally to fit and you'll lose vertical visible area. So it's only really useful for slightly more of your friends' inane Facebook comments showing... Should be wider too.

It wouldn't be any less vertical scrolling that we have now in landscape.

In fact, paragraphs would appear shorter b/c it would take the lines "below" and fill in the extra space on the side with those words.

 

[Cougarcat]

You can bet your ast dollar that apple hasnt taken a/v out. Will prob only be digital as apposed to last dock tho.

9 pins is USB 3--the dock is probably just a proprietary USB 3 connection. Apple will expect you to use AirPlay or Bluetooth.

 

[calvz]

It looks like ****.

If they weren't going to increase the screen size in any meaningful/usable way they should have just kept it at 3.5". And all of the argument of people saying the existing size is fine vs. it needs top be bigger just shows it's time for two iPhone models. They have different size laptop screens, they're going to to have different size iPad screens. Hell, even Motorola is coming out with a smaller RAZR M to go along the bigger-screened RAZR. Come on Apple, it's time.

At this point I'm hoping someone can hack iOS to run on a GS3 since Apple clearly has no interest in making the [hardware] product I'm looking for.

 

[OceanView]

And this is the innovation Apple has been boasting about?
Looks like they ran out of ideas.

 

[calvz]

I hope Tim Cook gets booed off the stage when he introduces this. (Yes, I know it won't happen.)

 

[nick_elt]

9 pins is USB 3--the dock is probably just a proprietary USB 3 connection. Apple will expect you to use AirPlay or Bluetooth.

Think about all the speaker docks, i very much doubt it. Anyway android get av out of their micro usb.