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Next Year's iPhones to Include 4.7" LCD Model With Single Camera, 5.5" LCD and OLED Models With Dual Cameras
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Hmm, lovely and very tempting. 
To be honest, it is the apple watch's current need for an iPhone that made me take a closer look at the phones and what they have to offer. But, what if plans were revealed to make the watch independent of the iPhone at some stage in the future? What would I be tempted by then? I don't know.
What I would like to see though is Apple dropping some of their current weird & wonderful projects costing their customers Billions of Dollars like AR and the Apple Car, and instead concentrating on what they once earned their reputation for doing best - making the best computers, phones, and possibly improving the watch with future editions. 
To be honest, it is the apple watch's current need for an iPhone that made me take a closer look at the phones and what they have to offer. But, what if plans were revealed to make the watch independent of the iPhone at some stage in the future? What would I be tempted by then? I don't know.
What I would like to see though is Apple dropping some of their current weird & wonderful projects costing their customers Billions of Dollars like AR and the Apple Car
, and instead concentrating on what they once earned their reputation for doing best - making the best computers, phones, and possibly improving the watch with future editions. 
You my friend would be a psychiatrists absolute dream to work with. NEVER CHANGE!!!!
In what part of that did I say I believed it was true?
While they have been working on it for over a year, they won't have finalized much yet.
Oh but mate, when Apple do OLED screens, (designed and made by samsung) , they will.do it right!!!!!!!! Is that the correct phrase to use? Lol
Not a fan of the 5.5" size, so I better get used to a completely under-featured device - that is still gonna carry a Premium on the Apple Premium plus Apple tax and Tim Cook comfortmoney.
Agreed. In my opinion, this may be the start of the "2017 iPhone is God of iPhones" rumors falling apart. It was first stated that the 2017 iPhone would be OLED, now the rumor is that there will be a separate OLED model while the other 2017 models will remain LCD. By March, I'm sure we'll have a rumor that the "OLED iPhone display isn't ready and will be shelved until the 2018 iPhone."
I hope that's not true, but this is already starting to look similar to the 7 rumors.
I guess I am missing the obvious, but how does having different screen types lead to fragmentation?First an article about non-removable SSD's and now an article about fragmented iPhones...
MR is just trolling.
Not a fanboy of one company, just of technology. No need to be an ignorant, stuck-up individual
Rumours are probably false. The next iPhone is just gonna get a little OLED Touchbar at a place you can't actually reach.
Also to make the device even thinner they'll remove the entire camera module and make it available (as an extra purchase - of course) via lightning dongle.
Also to make the device even thinner they'll remove the entire camera module and make it available (as an extra purchase - of course) via lightning dongle.
Hardware fragmentation. As in excluding features from one phone. In the iPhone's previous iterations it was ROM, then OIS, then dual cameras. If this rumor turns out to be true (highly unlikely), it will be OLED. Features available in the 5.5" that are excluded from the 4.7". Some would argue size constraints made some of those features not possible on the 4.7" phone. Some would. OLED is not limited by size constraints. Thus, hardware fragmentation. You may have been thinking along the lines of OS fragmentation similar to Android. That's not what I was talking about.
Very little difference in size between the camera modules on the 7/7plus. Could've made space for it in the smaller phone by not needlessly making the Taptic engine bigger, but then there would be much less reason to buy the more expensive Plus model.
Uh...that's a huge difference in size.
That's not true. There are plenty of OLED panels being made. LG is a huge producer of OLED panels.The problem is, Apple decided not to use LG.
I'll go along with this one. Very close IMO.
Budget () 4.7" LCD, Single 12mp, 2g RAM, and the A10.
5.5" LCD, A11, Dual Camera 12mp, 3g RAM.
5.5" A11, OLED, Dual Camera 12mp, Wireless Charging, 4g RAM, 512 Storage option. "10th Anniversary Edition." Big Price Point.
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Those darn "margins" again.
Budget (
) 4.7" LCD, Single 12mp, 2g RAM, and the A10. 5.5" LCD, A11, Dual Camera 12mp, 3g RAM.
5.5" A11, OLED, Dual Camera 12mp, Wireless Charging, 4g RAM, 512 Storage option. "10th Anniversary Edition." Big Price Point.
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Those darn "margins" again.
I suppose Apple should hire Ming as the new CEO.Then we will not have to stand Tim's crap anymore and Ming will not have to guess again.
If only they would have removed something about that shape and size....oh wait.
It will be disappointing if in fact Apple decides to add the nice features just to the XL iPhone. I still have an iPhone 6 and was willing to wait until the iPhone 8, like many others, but if the rumors are true I might just jump ship for a different brand. I do not like sales tactics or tricks like making the larger phone nicer just to get that extra dollar out of you. Apple has the best engineers and there are no reasons on why all models can't have the same features.
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What's so messy about it? Do you say car manufacturers lineups are messy? Appliance manufacturers?