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Poll: How many of you think the leaked iPhone pics were real?
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I'll take it a step further.
If Apple does go with a longer narrow design, bet your ass there will be several android phones that replicate the form factor next year, because there will be high demand for a screen where all points are accessible without a grip change and the overall form factor feels comfortable due to the same overall width of the 4S.
We've been down this road before. All the debbie downers come out in force and bitch and moan about Apple, but then Apple's actions become the standard that everyone tries to replicate.
I think they are fake, and here's why. I really doubt the new iPhone will have BOTH a longer shape and new adapters. The only reason to make a longer phone and not a wider phone would be to accommodate current iPhone docks, which are present in most everything. But then it would make no sense in changing the dock connector if they're accommodating for current docks. And it wouldn't make sense to have an abnormally long screen (and screw up pretty much ALL of the iOS apps in the app store) unless it was because of the docks. Then all new apps would not be backwards compatible, and the app store would be a mess (they'll have to have 3 categories - iPad, iPhone 4S and under, and iPhone 5).
I said this a while back...and got downvoted big time. But I think now that smaller more efficient LTE chips are out, android phones will trend back to 4 inches. 4.3+ is just ridiculously big.
There are a lot of companies praying to God almighty that Apple follows along with everyone else and does a conventional screen size increase.
This is why I believe the leak has truth. It just seems like one of those odd things Apple would actually do.
And just imagine they give it a marketable name like Retina-L. The press and public will eat it up. The app makers will have a field day. It will become just something else people will associate with Apple and a sought feature.
...then 2013 will be the year if the long narrow android phone clones...
This is why I believe the leak has truth. It just seems like one of those odd things Apple would actually do.
And just imagine they give it a marketable name like Retina-L. The press and public will eat it up. The app makers will have a field day. It will become just something else people will associate with Apple and a sought feature.
...then 2013 will be the year if the long narrow android phone clones...
Your title is grammatically incorrect. You included present and past tense into the same sentence.
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4.3' is not 'just ridiculously big'. Narrow minded people who haven't even used a product which they're dissing is what's ruining this forum. A 4.65' screen from the Galaxy Nexus feels completely natural and comfortable in the hand. And it was in every best intention that you were down voted. You may have an opinion, but stating that Android phone manufactures WILL downgrade the screen sizes is an oblivious statement from a naive mind.
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4.3' is not 'just ridiculously big'. Narrow minded people who haven't even used a product which they're dissing is what's ruining this forum. A 4.65' screen from the Galaxy Nexus feels completely natural and comfortable in the hand. And it was in every best intention that you were down voted. You may have an opinion, but stating that Android phone manufactures WILL downgrade the screen sizes is an oblivious statement from a naive mind.
All praise for your omniscience on the matter. Thank you for saving us from ignorance.
And I've spent plenty of time with a 4.3 Droid X. It was unbelievably unwieldy and the screen was WAY too big. It was not comfortable to use in any way.
I wasn't trying to be smart, just honest. Perhaps they were waiting for the right time. Apple does a ton of things that I would consider strange, but they seem to be successful. I am simply pointing out that lack of evidence (not having already seen a larger screen) isn't evidence that there is no evidence to launch a larger screen.
Nope. 16:9 has already been done and it wasn't a game changer. Awful, infact, in a handheld device where width is every bit as important as height.
Of course it will sell like crazy because it's an apple iPhone, but don't confuse that with people buying because of the small/tall screen.
I'm not 100% sure like anyone but I am
Starting to like it, either way im ready to get rid of the 4 and have a new iPhone!
Starting to like it, either way im ready to get rid of the 4 and have a new iPhone!
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What time of year do the case factory's get the layouts to make there stock? Usually china gets some insight pretty early on
Your posts don't make any sense. Were you shrieking that Apple would never change the form factor of the 3G? It's completely illogical to claim that "Company X will never make change Y to their product because they haven't done it already."
Its called a "Kansas City Shuffle." and after this year, we might call it the "cupertino shuffle."
This is what I'm hoping for.
Dont get me wrong, The "leaked" phone is still gorgeous. to me at least. I'll be just a twinge disappointed, but I'm not going to puff up my chest and say I'm jumping ship. That would be a lie. All these folks who are "not buying this phone!!!1!" are blowing smoke. It'll still set sales records, and be praised up and down until next march, when the whole cycle starts over again.
Wait impatiently for leaks => whine and bitch over said leaks => buy phone anyway and LOVE it.
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I will say with near certainty that they are real, but that in NO WAY guarentee's that this will be the iPhone that is released. I expect Apple to have at least a couple of different prototypes they have been working on. By this point they have probably already chosen the design winner, but I wouldn't be too surprised if the decision wasn't finalized until just this month. But there have been far too many parts leaks, design leaks, rumors, etc for this entire thing to be completely fake.
Although, if I had to guess, I think this WILL be the final design released in the fall. It makes a lot of sense from Apple's perspective.
Sidenote: Of course design and screen aspect ratio are two different things. The aspect ratio/resolution was probably decided some time ago. If this is in fact a real prototype then I think we can assume 16:9 is the future.
You are attacking two things. The square design and 16:9 aspect ratio.
Regarding the design, I will direct you to the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy or to a Jony Ive quote "Its very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better." The only issues I have with my iP4 design is fragile, glass back; antennagate; and maybe getting a little "old" looking. But this new design would fix all of those issues. What's wrong with square? It can stand up on it's side; it lies flat on it's back; and it packs as much space as possible (for internal componants, battery) in a very thin frame.
And I have argued in the past that "stretching" vertically actually yeilds more usable space than stretching both vertically and horizontally. This is due to many apps tendancies to use horizontal bars for not only menus but also much of the content. Just look at many of the stock apps like settings, weather, clock, music, and many more. Adding horizontal space is many of these apps would add very minimal or zero usable space. I would argue a majority of apps are designed like this. Secondly, it allows for the entire screen to be used for video. This is obvious, but certainly worth mentioning. Thirdly, it makes it significantly easier for app designers to add space in one direction rather than two, especially with the way most of the apps are designed. Sure you could just keep the same rame resolution, but then you would lose the "retina" display plus you don't even add any extra screen real estate at all. And fourthly, keeping the same width allows the iPhone to fit in all current docks. Yes, I know the rumors of a new dock connector, but Apple could easily provide a very small converter similar to the magsafe 2. And finally, a wider phone becomes more difficult to reach all areas of the screen for people with smaller hands.
Let me first state, how ignorant you sound to claim to speak for all the 50% of "fanboys that will justify anything Apple puts out regardless of how lame".
Now that's out of the way... Where in the poll does it ask if you want the leaks to be real? That's not the question. I could think the leaks are real, but hate it. I could think the leaks are fake, but love it. So just stop.
Although, if I had to guess, I think this WILL be the final design released in the fall. It makes a lot of sense from Apple's perspective.
Sidenote: Of course design and screen aspect ratio are two different things. The aspect ratio/resolution was probably decided some time ago. If this is in fact a real prototype then I think we can assume 16:9 is the future.
You are attacking two things. The square design and 16:9 aspect ratio.
Regarding the design, I will direct you to the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy or to a Jony Ive quote "Its very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better." The only issues I have with my iP4 design is fragile, glass back; antennagate; and maybe getting a little "old" looking. But this new design would fix all of those issues. What's wrong with square? It can stand up on it's side; it lies flat on it's back; and it packs as much space as possible (for internal componants, battery) in a very thin frame.
And I have argued in the past that "stretching" vertically actually yeilds more usable space than stretching both vertically and horizontally. This is due to many apps tendancies to use horizontal bars for not only menus but also much of the content. Just look at many of the stock apps like settings, weather, clock, music, and many more. Adding horizontal space is many of these apps would add very minimal or zero usable space. I would argue a majority of apps are designed like this. Secondly, it allows for the entire screen to be used for video. This is obvious, but certainly worth mentioning. Thirdly, it makes it significantly easier for app designers to add space in one direction rather than two, especially with the way most of the apps are designed. Sure you could just keep the same rame resolution, but then you would lose the "retina" display plus you don't even add any extra screen real estate at all. And fourthly, keeping the same width allows the iPhone to fit in all current docks. Yes, I know the rumors of a new dock connector, but Apple could easily provide a very small converter similar to the magsafe 2. And finally, a wider phone becomes more difficult to reach all areas of the screen for people with smaller hands.
Let me first state, how ignorant you sound to claim to speak for all the 50% of "fanboys that will justify anything Apple puts out regardless of how lame".
Now that's out of the way... Where in the poll does it ask if you want the leaks to be real? That's not the question. I could think the leaks are real, but hate it. I could think the leaks are fake, but love it. So just stop.