Potential First Photo of iPhone 7 Plus Shows Dual-Lens Camera and Smart Connector

[sofila]

It's the other way around. Phone cameras have been absolutely unusable **** for the most time of their existence and just now they are becoming actually really good even for professional uses. As a reporter you could record an interview in HDTV quality no problem.

You're right about HDTV quality for recording videos almost everywhere and everytime is needed, i.e. perfect for reporters, but my post, although written in a poor english, was referring to pictures, images and their final fruition.
Please see Krevnik's post above, perfect expression of what is going through my mind

 

[carrrrrlos]

Looking more Dell and less Apple. Wonder if Ive is just phoning it in from across the pond at this point.

 

[KJL3000]

Mac rumors add this NO HOME BUTTON

Definitly true! That open Photoshop window reflecting on the Display waiting for some work? Sheer coincidence!

 

[Mac 128]

If you're having a smart connector - would you want the phone docking in portrait orientation?

Yes, my phone is always docked in portrait orientation. Easier to pick up and get going that way. If I need it in portrait now, I just turn the dock on it's side with the phone connected.

I imagine using the smart connector will also open up a whole new area for dock design. Before a horizontal dock would require the Lightning plug to stick out of the end, or awkwardly slide the phone into the dock, but now a magnet will gently pull the phone into the proper connection. When you're done, just pull away and go.

 

[nia820]

Because Apple still can't defeat physic... Unless you are looking for an iPhone unable to make phone calls

Then perhaps apple needs to reconsider the materials they use to make their phones. Samsung and other high end phone makers do a good job with hiding their antenna bands. On the note 5 for example the antenna bands are just small vertical strips at the top and bottom that are hardly noticeable.

Apple could at least dye their antenna bands a similar color to the device color. I love my rose gold iphone 6s+. But those bands can be distracting sometimes.

 

[Jakeoster]

One of Apple's most valuable, yet often dismissed, traits is that they refuse change for change sake. This approach requires the most discipline but often yields the best, most enduring designs. Apple is a forward thinking design focused company and I would expect the iPhone 7 to look as the leak suggests. While the rest of the industry finally feels like they have caught up to Apple in terms of design, they're about to be left in the dust again for one simple reason.

The vast majority of people use a case and the iPhone 7 looks to be a phone truly designed with a case in mind. The camera bump looks to be about the same thickness as an iPhone 6, a thickness most people claim to be ideal and would flush the camera to the case. The design team have a wide range of experience working with different materials and recently tested making a first gen battery case, you know what they say about first gen Apple products lol. The smart connector, perfect for powering ever more advanced cases.

I bet Apple is going to focus on designing a range of cases of such fit, quality, and functionality that they will begin to recede and become a part of the iPhone's design itself. Apple has the talent to pull off case designs that feel as if they're part of the phone itself, not a case.

This is the next evolution in my opinion and why they continue to make the iPhone ever thinner. Soon, a phone's thinness will be increasingly judged by how thick it is in a case. It's sort of ironic but the thinner you make the phone, the more you can cram into its case. Be it a battery or something else entirely. The thinking being if people are going to opt for a case anyway, might as well make it great.

 

[UkiyoeNo17]

Sorry for this simple question... but why they keep doing a thinner iPhone that has terrible camera bump? I do prefer a thicker iPhone (maybe 1-2 mm thicker) but without this camera bump and maybe a better battery (and even a more solid iPhone)
Is it a terrible request? Am I the only one that is looking for this?

Marco

Agreed! And that extra mm would give "lots" of room for more battery, etc. I don't think uber-slimness is the be-all-and-end all. It's about hand feel, too, and slimness is only one of several factors.

 

[thingstoponder]

NO APPLE. If you're not going to put effort into ridding your future models of obvious antenna lines, then put effort into a non protruding camera. This must be fake. If it's not, then Apple either can't or doesn't appreciate good design anymore, or it's design and engineering departments are just completely dysfunctional.

What a ridiculous post.

What makes you think they aren't trying to get rid of the antenna lines? They reduced them massively here. Antenna cannot travel through metal. They're a necessary evil.

Also, the antenna lines and the camera depth have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. Every other phone has a protruding camera, get over it.

 

[Nuvi]

So crap.

If this is legit, the iPhone 7 will be the first non "S" iPhone since the 3G that I won't be buying.

Apple's competitors are coming up with more innovative designs, and will well and truely dominate if this is ever released.

Although I would never buy a Samsung phone I still have to say their Galaxy 7S edge (or what ever their new flagship is) looks better than this iPhone 7 mockup. What's more important, it actually feels good in your hand due to its curved back. Anyway, if battery case with smart connector is Apple's solution to bigger batteries then I'm seriously unimpressed. Unfortunately there is zero chance I'll be buying into Android echo system aka not touching that Google "spy ware".

 

[smacrumon]

Personally, I think the 6 is their second most beautiful design... the way the glass is sculpted in perfect symmetry and proportion and blends in seamlessly with the aluminum frame is genius.

Even the way the antennae lines frame the top and bottom... It's in perfect symmetry with the edges of the display.

It's a triumph of design which explains why HTC and Samsung were quick to copy it... It also explains your differentiation complaint.

It's no triumph, it's an unresolved mess. Symmetry is nice in all directions, but it doesn't make for a refined design when left overs like eye sore antennas and protruding cameras remain on the plate and now there are three solder points. Yuk. HTC and Samsung already had unresolved visible antenna lines before Apple regressed and copied them in the process. Shame, Apple.

 

[peterdevries]

I think compression artefacts would be homogeneous allover the image. Zoom in and you will notice how there's a clean rectangular "cut" following the shape of the logo. When looking at the whole image, that I did not show, this is the only part that stands out very clearly.

No, not always. Compression artefacts especially occur along clear lines and contrast rich areas and are rectangular. You could be right, but we need more analysis or info to determine that it is not a compression artifact.

 

[cableguy84]

Looks exactly the same as the 6.

Anyways, the pic looks fake

 

[dampfnudel]

I'm expecting a major redesign next year, for the tenth anniversary iPhone.

Just because they've done an "S" model every other year a total of four (4) times, doesn't mean they'll stick to that pattern forever.

That's possible, and if the iPhone 7 actually looks like this "improved" 6s from a visual perspective, then a new design next year becomes more likely. Besides the 10th anniversary of the iPhone next year, Samsung also releases the S8 next year and the "numerical superiority" of the S8 over the 7s may not look good to Apple's marketing department, possibly prompting the earlier than expected release of the iPhone 8. Finally, mLED will be ready next year as well as real wireless charging. A lot of stars are aligning for Apple next year when it comes to the iPhone. One more thing that could prompt Apple to shake things up is the 's' model's increasing negative rep.

 

[Nuvi]

What a ridiculous post.

What makes you think they aren't trying to get rid of the antenna lines? They reduced them massively here. Antenna cannot travel through metal. They're a necessary evil.

Also, the antenna lines and the camera depth have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. Every other phone has a protruding camera, get over it.

Actually Samsung has done far better job of getting rid of antenna lines and camera humps with their Galaxy 7S than Apple with this iPhone 7 (if this is the real deal). What's sad is the fact that this iPhone will be available around September at which point Samsung is getting ready to release their next flagship phone.

 

[GeneralChang]

Yea, like they punked us real hard when they released the iPhone 6, 6+, 6S, 6S+

Uh... what? Did you reply without finding out what I was actually talking about? Because I don't see how your response is actually relevant to my original prediction.

 

[Karma*Police]

Johnny? is that you?

Ha! I've been called out by the anonymous Microsoft/Samsung consultant.

 

[dontwalkhand]

Everyone who is complaining I know will end up with one of these anyway and it'll be the best thing since sliced bread. (I will get one for sure, I am on the non S cycle)

 

[marcofan]

I don't believe the photo is entirely fake and I had bad feelings about leaked designs that proved far better once confirmed and seen in person. Anyway, i bet the camera portion is fake not because it looks damn ugly rather because the relative positioning of the dual camera lenses is just plain wrong when it comes to aspect ratio consistency. I mean: you would expect the lenses to be positioned the other way when holding the phone in portrait so that you would have them side by side holding it in landscape. Maybe the tech behind that would be perfectly capable of managing both setups but optically speaking resolution would be maximized when the combined cameras lie along the longest axis.

 

[smacrumon]

Or, perhaps, their taste just differs from yours.

Sure taste differs among everyone. However there is good designs and poor unresolved designs (like antenna bands, protruding cameras, and three random dot connectors). When given the choice between good design and poor design, those who choose poor design over good design either have no taste or have decided to buy into a marketing message and in turn are compromising on their own critical beliefs. Customers should demand perfection from Apple at this stage. Apple has the resources to produce perfection, they need to stop with all this sloppy work they are putting out.

 

[goosin']

What if it's for new "modular" accessories? Like a modular headphone jack, bigger speaker, camera accessories? That can be something accessory maker could really profit from

 

[brinary001]

didn't Jony Ive design that robot too?

XD probably

 

[Nuvi]

It's a triumph of design which explains why HTC and Samsung were quick to copy it... It also explains your differentiation complaint.

What are you talking about? HTC had full aluminium phone years before Apple. Both Samsung and HTC have managed to get rid of the antenna lines from the back so I'm bit puzzled why Apple is struggling with these big ass lines. IMHO, there is nothing amazing about iPhone 6/6S (plus) design. They are just rectangular slates with screen on one side and strange lines on another. Android phones even have better ergonomics but unfortunately they are still Android so that's no go for me.

 

[Antgb84]

For possible iPhone 7 photo to be out this early may be Apple are going to drop the 7 on the 21st now, that'd be Christmas wouldn't it? Perhaps it's the 5SE????

 

[Antgb84]

I say it's the 5SE

 

[pbasmadj]

Looks exactly the same as the 6.

Anyways, the pic looks fake

*anyway