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Potential 'iPhone 8' Render Shows Vertical Camera and Rear Touch ID, But Likely One of Several Designs
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It's like the camera was flipped vertically just to make it different. Ridiculous.
[doublepost=1492127195][/doublepost]So the home button on the back is just in case the integrated home button under the front touchscreen doesn't work? (Better improve those early manufacturing yields.)
[doublepost=1492127195][/doublepost]So the home button on the back is just in case the integrated home button under the front touchscreen doesn't work? (Better improve those early manufacturing yields.)
So case manufactures have to redesign their wares and potentially pay another "Made for iPhone" licensing fee if they are cases with additional functionality, of course.
The Nexus range has never had production issues reported. And they were incredibly popular devices in the android community, great specs, low price, naked Android with regular updates. They were popular.
Rear Touch ID is plain stupid.
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Nexus is popular but it's demand isn't even close to iPhone demands. So it's not the same.
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Nexus is popular but it's demand isn't even close to iPhone demands. So it's not the same.
Actually, I still think the iPhone 4 style was the best design Apple has created to-date. Indeed, the iPhone 5 was a derivative design. To my mind, the panels above and below on the 5 series looked somewhat out of place.
However, in general, if they return to that premise in a thinner form-factor I will be happy to update!
Exactly, you couldn't buy it. That's a failed launch from a manufacturing perspective.
If this is real Apple has really lost their touch. From the front it looks like an LG G6 and the back is a mess compared to the G6. The G6 has flush cameras and a fingerprint sensor in the right location. The one on the iPhone is too low IMHO to be easy to use.
Well this is interesting in all this: https://www.behance.net/gallery/46707925/iPhone-X-concept-(Updated-2017)
Not mine but it has the camera going the other way.
This is the phone I want! Amazing how getting rid of TouchID on the back completely changes the look of the phone. Also, the video shows that it doesn't have a bottom bezel. While I don't think apple would do that, I think it looks amazing!
It wouldn't give a clear print as the logo is not a perfect circle.If you were going to place the Touch ID on the back, why not integrate it into the Apple Logo?
I really hope this rendering is incorrect, but I thought the same thing when the CAD renderings of iPhone 6 showed up around this time of year and those were spot on.
I was referring to the yet to be released iPhone. Aside from shrinking the bezels how much can you really change? Every smart phone has the same basic shape now, except for gimmicks like adding a second screen or having curved edges.
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How can you hate something you haven't seen?
This atrocity aside, Apple needs to bring back defined edges to the iPhone. I know Jony is still going for his "single slab of glass" wet dream, but the edges of the 4/4s/5/5s/SE design were the best. And I am saying that as a huge fan of the current body design. Also, after having my 2016 Mac for a few months now, I'm obsessed with the machined edges on this thing. the build quality is immaculate, and the dead-straight edges feel great. Plus, more defined edges make it easier to pick the thing up off a table, and makes it less slippery. The next time youre in an Apple Store, or on your own, feel the edges of the top lid of the 2016 MacBook Pro, and imagine the iPhone feeling that way... super smooth and premium feeling.
Someone will make a high-end, computer rendered mockup based on this leak. Very interested in checking that out. This schematic is also fairly consistent with the leak from late last week, so I'm thinking that this is pretty close to the iP8's actual build...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2017/04/07/iphone-8-schematic-sketch/amp/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2017/04/07/iphone-8-schematic-sketch/amp/
Wow. You sound paranoid or delusional or both.
Does Apple send in bots here to make umpteenth "Samsung batteries explode!" jokes? No. They make the jokes because this was a problem.
This possible design is Apple's potential problem.
Who ever said it was the same? I never mentioned that once so am rather clueless why your mentioning it. No Nexus device was made in the same quantities as the iPhone for one.
A user on Weibo has shared an image of what appears to be a manufacturing-related design drawing of Apple's rumored 5.8-inch iPhone with an OLED display, which is tentatively named the iPhone 8 or iPhone X.
The drawing, which surfaced on /LEAKS earlier today, appears to be on a computer belonging to an Apple manufacturing partner such as Foxconn. It's unclear when the photo was taken, or if it's authentic, so treat this rumor with some caution until actual parts start to leak from the supply chain.
The drawing appears to be from the EVT, or Engineering Verification Testing, stage. In other words, this could be one of over ten iPhone prototypes that Apple has supposedly been testing this year, and the iPhone that ultimately enters mass production later this year might have an entirely different design.
The drawing shows an iPhone with a larger display that takes up nearly the entire front of the smartphone, as widely rumored. However, while many sources suggest the display will resemble the Galaxy S8 with only top and bottom bezels, the drawing shows very slim bezels along the left and right edges as well.
On the rear of the iPhone, the drawing shows a vertically aligned dual camera system, which has been rumored only once before by Japanese website Mac Otakara in December. Touch ID has also been relocated to the rear shell, in line with multiple reports claiming the iPhone 8 won't have a Home button on the front.
It has been more frequently rumored that Apple will integrate Touch ID underneath the iPhone 8's display glass, but Cowen and Company analyst Timothy Arcuri recently said that Apple is facing yield issues with an under-display solution. If it cannot resolve those issues, he said Touch ID on the rear is one possibility.
The drawing depicts an iPhone 8 measuring 149.5mm tall and 72.5mm wide, compared to the iPhone 7's 138.3mm length and 67.1mm width, so the iPhone 8 would be slightly larger than a 4.7-inch iPhone as expected. It's depth is 8.6mm, compared to the iPhone 7 at 7.1mm, possibly due to a rumored glass and stainless steel frame.
If accurate, the iPhone 8 would be approaching the thickness of an iPhone 4, which also had a glass and stainless steel design.
Using the Pythagorean theorem, we calculated that the iPhone 8 would have an overall footprint of about 6.5 inches on the diagonal, compared to around 6 inches for iPhone 7 and around 6.9 inches for iPhone 7 Plus. In other words, the iPhone 8 would be smaller than an iPhone 7 Plus, yet with an even bigger display.
The sides of the iPhone include the usual volume toggles, mute switch, lock button, SIM card tray, Lightning connector, speaker grille, and what is likely a second faux speaker grille. In line with the iPhone 7, there is no 3.5mm headphone jack, suggesting that the legacy port won't be making a surprise comeback.
Chinese social network Weibo has been the source of numerous part leaks and Apple-related rumors in the past, but as is usually the case with leaks this far from launch, the iPhone depicted in today's image could end up being much different from the one that debuts later this year.
As a point of emphasis, the iPhone drawing pictured above is largely inconsistent with rumors and expectations from Apple analysts that we've heard. A vertical-aligned camera and Touch ID on the back of the iPhone in particular are largely one-off rumors that have not been substantiated by multiple sources.
However, this design cannot be entirely ruled out. As mentioned, Apple prototypes several different iPhones at once, and it will ultimately proceed with a model that is best suited for manufacturing at scale. Over the coming weeks and months, we should begin to see a clearer picture of which design Apple went with.
Around this time three years ago, a similar design drawing and a few real-life photos of a device that ended up being the iPhone 6 surfaced from within Foxconn, so these types of leaks are sometimes credible.
Mitchel Broussard contributed to this report.
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There has yet to be a single iPhone that looks like straight up dog ****, until potentially this.
If they don't get enough yield on integrating the sensor into the screen thats the only way it could be done. And considering the removal of the headphone jack they could just pass off the move as courageous
You can't hard-reset an electronic device without physical buttons.
I was going to try to be eloquent, but I think this is more appropriate: It looks like ****.