Next iPhone to Have Thinner, Higher Quality Screen

[kulimer]

Anyway I find it a bit hard to believe that apple will go for the 16.9 ratio since this is ********ing up the ecosystem + if they do it they will be stuck to that screen for 2 to 4 year, you know ecosystem, fragmentation etc.

why is this related to the econsystem? more glass produced?

 

[Thunderhawks]

Is weight really an issue with people?
It's not like their 5lb phones.
To me, I like the weight of the iPhone 4/4S. I like phones that have a "heft" to them. It makes it more quality feeling.
Sure I've had android phones that had great build quality but I did not like their lightweight empty feeling when you held them. Weight feels expensive.

Yes it is!

If everybody was as obsessed with thinness as Apple, we would not have an obesity problem in the US.

Phones would fit into pockets, vibration mode would be recognized instead of
being muffled by fat flash and maybe that lightweight empty feeling is what all the
high fructose addicted people should consider.

And, it wouldn't be necessary for Apple to reinforce the back of the phone with metal.

Everybody should watch the movie "Supersize me" and they will learn that bigger is not always better.

.......but I digress!

What about we all wait, watch the sales numbers, wondering what happened (again)

 

[StyxMaker]

And ironically, comments like this are the very reason we need down-vote buttons again.

You don't like '1984' references?

 

[silroc]

Who Gives a CRAP about THIN!

Give me a battery that lasts!

The phone should be as thin as the ip4 metal band IMO

 

[cocky jeremy]

I don't want it thinner. I don't want the screen bigger than 4". And i definitely don't want that ugly two toned BS. If they end up doing that, i'll be using a case on my iPhone for the first time. The "leaks" are so ridiculously ugly.

 

[2IS]

I'm saying it's utterly pointless to include older phones because the ip4 was undisputed as thinnest when it debuted.

I only responded to your post because you posted as if there are almost no phones thinner than the ip4 or 4s. 6 have been brought to light fairly easily. I have no interest in the debate about whether being that thin has merit.

The point was there are very few phones that are thinner. The comment I responded to said that "for a phone" the iPhone is thick. Implying that most phones are thinner. Your own guesstimates put that number at or under 5%

 

[Bako-MacAddict]

I'm excited ! I sold my iPhone 4s 32 gig for $650 ! so I'm thinking of buying a samsung just for now, and resell it of course to get the new iPhone. Will hold more value than a iPhone 4s since GSIII is newer.

 

[pandamonia]

The phone should be as thin as the ip4 metal band IMO

Yes cus that is way more useful than a 10 hour battery on 3G.

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

Does anyone *really* need the iPhone to be thinner at this point? If it was any thinner, it would at least psychologically feel fragile. I think there's a balance between form and function with the slimness of the device, and Apple is already teetering on that edge.

The ghost of Steve apparently will haunt Apple for many years to come. Apple will not be happy until all their devices are 1 atom thick, impossible as it may be.

These devices need a good hand feel. If they get too light and thin, they will start to feel like they might blow away in the wind or something. Apple just doesn't know when to stop. They act like they're in a battle for the world record for thin or something. Thin doesn't offer any features at all. It's a 'so what' thing at this point. I'd much rather see new features or extended battery life on ANY of their products than size reduction.

If anything, the iPhone needs a larger sized screen and the Retina Macbook Pro needs several more ports (not to mention a BD drive which at least some of us would like an option for). WTF is the point of a portable notebook if you have to plug in a boat load of dongles and hubs to get functionality restored? Apple just doesn't seem to get it anymore.

(This is the point where all the fracking fanboys chime in with the "they're making money so they must be right BS")

 

[usptact]

What is "Battery" doing in the middle of what is supposed to be a screen?

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I'm excited ! I sold my iPhone 4s 32 gig for $650 ! so I'm thinking of buying a samsung just for now, and resell it of course to get the new iPhone. Will hold more value than a iPhone 4s since GSIII is newer.

Poor addict.

 

[mdunlap]

Battery

Please keep the battery the same size. I don't want thinner devices if it means lesser or comparable battery life. I would rather a thicker smart phone that doesn't have to be charged for 2 days.

 

[saturn88]

This is still LCD requiring backlit and it can not get as thin as AMOLED. Due to a simple construction, AMOLED screens don’t require backlight and can be extremely thin and flexible.

 

[charlituna]

It's gone, get use to having to reply to comments instead of hiding behind it. Now, what prompted this comment ? What do you disagree with and while you post to say you disagree, why not tell us why ?

You know... use the discussion forum to actually discuss ?

I have to disagree. Down votes were not about discussion and taking them away won't led to discussion. They will led to folks replying to insult users even more than already happens.

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I just cant see why we can up vote something but not down vote. Thats so p.c (the irony)

i know, the up vote opinions have the greater chance of being something that might promote discussion. But folks will be lazy and just click that little area

 

[KnightWRX]

I have to disagree. Down votes were not about discussion and taking them away won't led to discussion. They will led to folks replying to insult users even more than already happens.

So the mods will clean up the forums even more promoting more intelligent discussion around here rather than goalpost moving/insults/allusions to trolling for disagreements. If what you say is true, then the downvotes were even more useless than we thought : they served only to insult ? Good riddance.

 

[RBR2]

So the mods will clean up the forums even more promoting more intelligent discussion around here rather than goalpost moving/insults/allusions to trolling for disagreements. If what you say is true, then the downvotes were even more useless than we thought : they served only to insult ? Good riddance.

Based upon what I have seen about upvote/downvote use on other sites, the downvotes were to...well, vote some comments "off the island". Once a comment hit a certain level, it was obscured where one had to click on a few things to see it.

I suppose it might serve some purpose from a mod's perspective in that the posts with high downvotes might get attention more often than waiting to report some of the more egregious flames that do not forward the discussion process.

Upvotes, on the other hand, probably save space compared to everyone doing a "+1" to various comments and serves as a mini-opinion survey.

Hey, nothing is perfect.