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

jvmxtra said:
Please fire designer of iphone 5 if it looks like this.
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Yup fire Jony Ive, designer of other Apple products
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mactmaster said:
It remains to be seen how the camera app will be handled on the taller screen. I personally doubt apple will change from the 4:3 aspect ratio on photos and video will keep standard 1080p resolution.
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This is what I'm referring to http://youtu.be/HyevnynlxuU

I know they will use whatever the camera sensor is capable of as the screen resolution has nothing to do with that but it makes awkward looking videos when you record in portrait as opposed to landscape mode.
 
calvz said:
BTW, since they are apparently going with these awkward new dimensions, I know I for one would prefer the existing number of icons with a little more spacing. IMO another row would just make it look too cluttered.
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Please explain when 16:9 became "awkward"
 
Not to diss apple or anything but the SIII is looking better and better with every new iphone leak. At least imo. That saddens me. :(
 
Adokimus said:
Strange how it looks the same width here, but other earlier photos of the bottom make it look a bit wider. Maybe this is just the front panel and the sides come out further?

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.
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No; the leaked home button was measured to be slightly smaller than the current version.
 
Can not wait.!.!.!!!!

I freak'in can't wait.

Come at me Bro and give as the new iPhone! :D

Seriously, to all the haters and trolls go buy a Samsung and don't come back.
 
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Seems like the complainers either want or already have an android phone.
  • Not wide enough
  • Not big enough
  • It's ugly!
:rolleyes:
 
AppleInMyBlood said:
I would absolutely stop using a point-and-shoot altogether if the iPhone were to somehow get an optical zoom. If that were to happen, I would be very happy with a DSLR for serious photography and the iPhone for everything else.
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Agreed, but I don't think it's going to happen with tech as is. You'd have to make the phone significantly bigger cause the optical zoom is still something you need space to make. Nokia may have had it right when they had that mega pixel camera phone (42 megapixels?) where from what I understand how they implemented it was that you could zoom in on something and it wouldn't degrade the picture cause there still was a high amount of pixels in that zoomed in area.
 
They'll sell a bloody tonne. It doesn't stop me from secretly lusting for an S3, however.
 
WOW, no wonder it took so long for a complete redesign! I plan to camp out for a week to get my 3/8 in taller iPhone 4S!! Freaking AWESOME!
 
Gemütlichkeit said:
Seems like the complainers either want or already have an android phone.
  • Not wide enough
  • Not big enough
  • It's ugly!
:rolleyes:
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I think because of the growing feature parity between iOS and Android the main differentiator going forward will be hardware. When you look at a sheet showing the capabilities of each phone there are much fewer things that one can do over the other, at least when you consider base functionality.

While Android handsets differ wildly in hardware the iPhone is fairly formulaic and therefore we are likely to see more people comparing these devices based on hardware above OS.
 
D.T. said:
I use a cable to charge, so I'd have complete access to the headphone port, but I imagine, some new docks will have an audio out/passthrough and there was some kind of adapter prototype posted that had phono + dock connectors that would connect at the same time.
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Got it, seems a little silly if you use for phone calls, you have to unplug, dock the phone, then plug headphones back into docks audio out.....Interesting
 
isoft7 said:
When you simply can't innovate, just make it longer.

zzz = $$$

...doesn't help to sue a few people as well.
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They don't need to fix something that's not broken. I doubt Apple will innovate for another few years. They didn't make anything new after the iPod and before the iPhone because the technology was not yet available.
 
Too Tall Jones....:mad:

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faroZ06 said:
They don't need to fix something that's not broken. I doubt Apple will innovate for another few years. They didn't make anything new after the iPod and before the iPhone.
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What?
 
nick_elt said:
Please explain when 16:9 became "awkward"
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Not the screen dimensions, the dimension of the phone itself (as if that wasn't already clear from all of the other posters upset about it). The icon spacing comment admittedly did relate to screen ratio.
 
I'll admit the phone does look a bit awkward being longer like that.
BTW anyone recognize the music used in the video? It's so familiar to me. I think it was used in one of the Studio Ghibli films.
 
What's so awkward about a 16:9 screen? HD video will fit great on it.

calvz said:
Not the screen dimensions, the dimension of the phone itself (as if that wasn't already clear from all of the other posters upset about it). The icon spacing comment admittedly did relate to screen ratio.
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The phone casing is only slightly taller though. I don't get all the awkward comments.
 
Allenbf said:
Look at Android phones - they haven't changed much since the first ones, either. It just seems like it because there are 100 variants of them.
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But the Android fans here keep telling us how much more innovative Android handset makers are than Apple! :rolleyes:

Android Model 1: Meh
Android Model 2: Bigger screen
Android Model 3: Even bigger screen
Android Model 4: WAY BIGGER SCREEN!!!
 
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