There's no reason they couldn't integrate a fingerprint scanner into the bottom of the screen. difficult but it could be done.
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There's no reason they couldn't integrate a fingerprint scanner into the bottom of the screen. difficult but it could be done.
Do you have a solution for TouchID with no home button?
Do have a solution for the weakness of the device with no side bezels?
Can you design a camera system that fits in the smaller device?
My guess is, "no" to all 3.....disappointing.
Because Rogifan beat it into my head that Apple isn't going to abandon the home button when they just added TouchID to it. It's a common sense argument.
Maybe Apple is doing market research by "leaking" these prototype designs and seeing which one gets bashed the most.
Are you sure there isn't ANY reason they couldn't integrate it into the bottom of the screen? Because I'm betting Apple's engineers are a bit more knowledgeable about such things....
Here we are .... Apple following the idiotic path of Samsung & Co ....
I'd like to have a SLIGHTLY bigger iPhone. We probably will have a VERY BIGGER iPhone 6.
Nerds will be happy ... I will be disappointed.
Ok but you really think they would be able to do that one year after implementing it the way they did? Maybe they should have gotten rid of the home button last year. Or maybe there are quite difficult engineering issues that they haven't been able to solve for yet. It's easy for someone to mock something up in software that they never have to make a working prototype for. You can make something super cool looking that's the super thin with next to no bezels. Easy to do when you don't have to actually engineer the darn thing.
But we see these mockups with edge to edge displays. Surely if Apple engineers weren't so lazy and knew how to innovate we'd get that, no? /s
If they keep the same aspect ratio as the 5/5S (16:9), and just an increase in resolution to maintain the same DPI, it'll be pretty easy. But of course, it wouldn't be ideal because then we couldn't fit more on the screen even with the bigger screen.
I dont think the Home Button will ever vanish. It just has a mass market appeal. People trust physical buttons way more than virtual on screen ones. Plus you dont accidentally press the home button.
Maybe it will change shape or size but I doubt it will ever vanish.
Maybe it will change shape or size but I doubt it will ever vanish.
16 pages of bezel discussion and no one has written "bevel" yet?
We've had "bazel", "benzel" and "basel"... but no bevel. I can't decide if I'm proud or disappointed.
We've had "bazel", "benzel" and "basel"... but no bevel. I can't decide if I'm proud or disappointed.
That's the moment when Android surpassed ios in my opinion. Android 4.0 (ice cream sandwich) was a total revamp and Apple never caught up. If this picture is true Android could easily produce a smaller 4.7 inch phone with a better screen to boot.
Something the size of an old Razor flip phone, but thinner, and running iOS 7 or 8 on an Apple A7 or A8 processor would be great! Very pocketable and palmable for people who already have an iPad Mini (etc.) for when they want a use bigger display than they want to carry with them all the time.
Who needs a big display for iTunes Radio, a Siri question, Twitter, or Flappy Birds while waiting for the elevator?
I don't think Apple care so much about how much it "appeals" to people, it's just a clear, logical design choice - it embodies the whole iOS idea of elegant simplicity - a single button that is always where it is, and it always gives you a consistent, guaranteed behaviour - you go to the home screen, without fail. The fact it is a physical button means that, aside from being part of activating DFU mode, waking the display etc, it is easily pressed in the dark or in a pocket - can you imagine using Siri in your pocket with a SOFT button? Ugh.
The fact it is concave, also means your fingertip registers into it firmly, and doesn't skid or slip off it, as it could on a convex form. Personally, I find it good afforance, too.
Are you 10 years old? Apple will introduce an updated 4" phone along with the introduction of bigger sized versions.
How do I know this? It makes business sense and is also common sense. Something that many here seem to be lacking.
Did you say the same thing when the iphone 5 with 4" screen started leaking?
Agree. We are likely seeing here extensions to the iPhone 5c line up.
The flagship model will probably be different/smaller?
Would even make sense to get these leaks out now, satisfying all these people who don't appreciate an appropriate phone size.
I have been forced to use a GS4 at work and it is the worst phone experience I had since my phone before the iPhone - whatever funny phone that was.
You dont. you're just speculating like every other analyst and rumor blog in the stratosphere.