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

[Floatingworks]

I've been a reader for over three years and this is my first comment. When you view the back of a newer iPhone the eye is immediately drawn towards the Apple logo and all is good. The world is in harmony. When looking at this monstrosity the eye is immediately drawn towards an incredibly large and ugly camera lens. Then the eye is drawn towards the smaller Apple logo. This uncomfortably lazy design will pollute the beauty of everything else in the world. Many will cringe at the sight of it like they do when they hear the screams of crying babies on airplanes. It will increase domestic disputes, then more grannies will have their purses snatched, and finally this abomination will lead to all out world war. Now that the devil's work has been revealed, I recommend building underground hideouts and storing seeds.

 

[smacrumon]

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.

Customers should demand perfection from Apple at this stage. Apple have the resources to produce perfection, they need to stop with all this sloppy work they are putting out (like antenna bands, protruding cameras, and three random dot connectors). iPhone 4 introduced visible antennas but they were camouflaged and blended in with the actual device's design. They weren't visually offensive and complimented the design very well Post iPhone 4 Apple has been making the antennas more obvious, more an eye sore. On iPhone 6, Apple hasn't even bothered to match the antenna band colours with the actual shell colours on some models. There are many other materials Apple could use. The evil is suggesting that the antenna lines are necessary. Antennas are necessary but antenna bands are not. Just because every other phone has a protruding camera doesn't mean the iPhone should also have it. The iPhone design is unresolved and not much thought has been put into how that could be resolved. We've gone from early iPhones that have clean lines, clean fronts and clean backs to what we have today, pimples (protruding camera), wrinkles (antenna lines) and sunspots (smart connectors). I'll get over it once Apple corrects it.

 

[StyxMaker]

Do you seriously believe that a smartphone with a camera lens of this size will ever be able to match the picture quality of a DSLR?! (in the hands of a professional photographer who knows how to use it)

But, the question is, will it match a DLSR in their own hands.

 

[DoctorTech]

I never expected to see the new smart connector on the iPhone. So far on iPad it looks like it is mainly for a keyboard. I am sure there could be other uses for it I would really be surprised to see it on the back of phone rather than the edge like it is on the iPads.

 

[jmpage2]

I would be shocked to see a final design so similar to the 6. The new iPhone will have to be a different shape in order to please the look at me I have the latest iPhone 'crowd'

Every year we see the leaked final design six months before the product is available and every year people insist that's not the final design.

Then it's released and it turns out to be the final design.

Cook is running Apple into the ground. They no longer innovate, now they just incrementally improve.

 

[apolloa]

Hmm if they put the same camera on the standard 4.7 inch iPhone Plus give it OIS I may have to upgrade.

 

[0248294]

No bloody way is that thing going to make it to market. The camera lens looks like the face of that little robot that hovers in the movie Wall-E.

That's EVE, and funny enough, Jony Ive did actually consult the Pixar team on her design.

 

[Swordylove]

Lol this is even uglier than 6/6S! I say photoshop.

 

[Karma*Police]

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.

Apple's first iPhone was all aluminum except for the bottom and the 6 has more in common with that design than HTC's M8, which I own. HTC's A9, OTOH, is a carbon copy of the iPhone 6.

Design is certainly subjective and you can argue that they're all rectangular slates, but that's where the details set the handsets apart, and the 6's perfectly symmetrical design is no small feat.

Personally, I'd prefer no antennae lines, but if you're going to have it, then you might as well make it bold and incorporate it into the design. A much thinner line would've made it look unbalanced IMO.

 

[Keniutek]

No bloody way is that thing going to make it to market. The camera lens looks like the face of that little robot that hovers in the movie Wall-E.

I remember people saying the exact same thing about the antena bands...

 

[Sea Bass]

Wasn't the iPhone 7 supposed to get rid of the protruding camera lens?

 

[Howyalikdemapls]

I never expected to see the new smart connector on the iPhone. So far on iPad it looks like it is mainly for a keyboard. I am sure there could be other uses for it I would really be surprised to see it on the back of phone rather than the edge like it is on the iPads.

Perhaps it's for a power pack battery case. Apple might be losing battery power by making it thinner and try to redesign those ugly hump battery cases. But the way those cases attach to the Lightning port makes the overall length of the phone even worse than it is already. Having it flat on the back would make it hidden quite nicely. This seems like the most practical purpose.

 

[dampfnudel]

Wasn't the iPhone 7 supposed to get rid of the protruding camera lens?

It may not be possible with the dual-lens camera that the iPhone 7 Plus/Pro will get. The regular iPhone 7 (4.7") will most likely just get a tweaked version of the single-lens camera that my 6s has, possibly with a non-protruding lens. That's the direction the rumors have been pointing toward.

 

[mdelvecchio]

Every year we see the leaked final design six months before the product is available and every year people insist that's not the final design.

Then it's released and it turns out to be the final design.

Cook is running Apple into the ground. They no longer innovate, now they just incrementally improve.

nonsense. you're just too new to Apple -- iterative improvement is how they roll. evolutionary. the revolutionary only happens once in a while -- Apple II, Mac, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad. but the iterative improvements make my 6s way better than my 3G. dur.

 

[BradWould]

Uh oh. Looks like Apple is not going to sell any phones again this year.

 

[LovingTeddy]

How do they reduce the overall size with the home button and Touch ID? Not sure the tech is there to get rid of the home button yet.

Easily... Put the TouchID censor in the back of the phone. There is no need for home button... If really need, use virtual buttom...

Wait...am I talking about Nexus 5X desgin?

 

[jamesjingyi]

Really want a Gold/Rose Gold iPhone with a black screen like the Apple Watch.. Now that would be nice

 

[bigjnyc]

Overall size looks just as big as the 6/6s so I guess bezels will be staying the same size

 

[Gudi]

Well ignoring the whole image sensor argument advantage that interchangeable lens cameras have, here is the reason smartphones won't kill them off.

They are already killing them off. Camera sales are in decline. For most people it's a huge disadvantage to have all these different interchangeable lenses available. And to know how use them is a skill that needs to be learned. Once there was a time when normal people knew how to build a transistor radio from simple electronic parts, because that was the only way to be able to listen to music. But no more! A child born in todays smartphone world will not learn how to operate a DSLR. We can not even be sure that future generations will recognize the object represented in the camera app icon.

What is this?​

 

[iphone X]

All this buzz about a phone that doesn't come out until September, and not a peep about MacBooks

thats a very sad reality right now ...where are the macbook Pro rumors

 

[1Zach1]

They are already killing them off. Camera sales are in decline. For most people it's a huge disadvantage to have all these different interchangeable lenses available. And to know how use them is a skill that needs to be learned. Once there was a time when normal people knew how to build a transistor radio from simple electronic parts, because that was the only way to be able to listen to music. But no more! A child born in todays smartphone world will not learn how to operate a DSLR. We can not even be sure that future generations will recognize the object represented in the camera app icon.

What is this?​

Smartphones are killing off compact cameras, not DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, both of which are seeing increased sales. The "All I need is an iPhone" crowd isn't; and never has been, the interchangeable lens crowd.

 

[AFDoc]

I say bring it on! I like the look and have never had an issue with a protruding camera housing..... That's the cost of some of you wanting a thinner and thinner phone.... can't have your iphone and eat it too. I'm ready for a bigger phone honestly.... used to be so against the idea but now after spending 2 years with one I can't and won't go smaller.

 

[JimRV]

Every year we see the leaked final design six months before the product is available and every year people insist that's not the final design.

Then it's released and it turns out to be the final design.

Cook is running Apple into the ground. They no longer innovate, now they just incrementally improve.

 

[AFDoc]

It doesn't matter how "incredible, "magical" or "inspiring" the photos it produces are, if that's the next iPhone with THAT camera bulge, it's a fairly shocking release from a company that claimed to be so obsessed with clean design.

Don't blame apple... blame all those that HAVE to have the thinnest phone on the market.

 

[Brien]

I'm sure it's already been said, but I think it's more likely that those dots at the bottom are for inductive charging (or possibly, very blurry laser etched logos of some kind).