The iPhone 6 will have the same aspect ratio as the iPhone 5/5s. For me the most interesting part of the iPhone 6 will be the new resolution. The resolution is even more interesting than how it will look.
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The iPhone 6 will have the same aspect ratio as the iPhone 5/5s. For me the most interesting part of the iPhone 6 will be the new resolution. The resolution is even more interesting than how it will look.
The light grey areas are interesting, no matter how you drop this phone it's the light grey bits that will absorb the impact (if it's a flat surface you drop the phone onto). If these bits are liquid metal and the screen is sapphire, then Apple's strategy for differentiating this phone from competitors is clear, they will be pushing this phone as much less breakable than everything else.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the line apple will take, but it doesn't explain the the wider bands. My guess is that light grey bits are not liquid metal but slightly flexible rubbery plastic, and Apple will promote it as a phone that doesn't need a case, the wider bands are there to serve two purposes, shock absorption and antenna gaps, and the brown areas on the image will all be metal, not plastic.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the line apple will take, but it doesn't explain the the wider bands. My guess is that light grey bits are not liquid metal but slightly flexible rubbery plastic, and Apple will promote it as a phone that doesn't need a case, the wider bands are there to serve two purposes, shock absorption and antenna gaps, and the brown areas on the image will all be metal, not plastic.
Interesting thought.
If Apple were to do a plastic/rubbery phone, then a sapphire display would not only prevent most scratches, but also help it to still be seen as "high end".
Waterproof would be nice, too. (After all, it's a primary reason to go all touch in markets like field tech handhelds.)
HTC One has that dimensions because of a pair of state-of-the-art STEREO speakers ! What does iPhone has ? One f..ing huge button and nothing else.
The dimensions are HUGE! Nowdays you'll get a 5'' inch on this dimensions!
The problem we have is a now, almost historic concept of what materials are quality and what's not.
Irrespecitve of how suitable they are for the task.
Really, the materials quality should be judged based upon how well it performs for it's task.
EG:
Would a gold football or a plastic football be a better football?
Would a Plastic speedboat be better than a metal and wood speedboat?
Really a glass and bendable (soft metal) mobile phone is NOT the best materials for a mobile phone.
You want something light, strong, a little flexible (sat on it) and can take impacts without denting.
Not cold to the touch, smooth edges.
Glass and Metal is really none of those.
From a non snobbish standpoints. Various synthetic plastics and rubber compounds would be the best, most suitable and most practical, and comfortable, strong and durable materials to make a device such as a mobile phone from.
Unfortunately some people's views on what is, in their mind a "quality" material is holding us back from the best materials for the job.
The trick, or rather the challenge is in choosing synthetic materials which are able to be shaped, molded to high precision and look/feel very nice.
Even with that, we still have those idiots who say Plastic = Crap
Irrespective of how suitable it it for the job that's required of it.
If Plastic was expensive and rare Apple and their blind fans would be shouting on how amazing plastics are.
Funny world. huh!
Irrespecitve of how suitable they are for the task.
Really, the materials quality should be judged based upon how well it performs for it's task.
EG:
Would a gold football or a plastic football be a better football?
Would a Plastic speedboat be better than a metal and wood speedboat?
Really a glass and bendable (soft metal) mobile phone is NOT the best materials for a mobile phone.
You want something light, strong, a little flexible (sat on it) and can take impacts without denting.
Not cold to the touch, smooth edges.
Glass and Metal is really none of those.
From a non snobbish standpoints. Various synthetic plastics and rubber compounds would be the best, most suitable and most practical, and comfortable, strong and durable materials to make a device such as a mobile phone from.
Unfortunately some people's views on what is, in their mind a "quality" material is holding us back from the best materials for the job.
The trick, or rather the challenge is in choosing synthetic materials which are able to be shaped, molded to high precision and look/feel very nice.
Even with that, we still have those idiots who say Plastic = Crap
Irrespective of how suitable it it for the job that's required of it.
If Plastic was expensive and rare Apple and their blind fans would be shouting on how amazing plastics are.
Funny world. huh!
LG and HTC already got on that train.... and others.... yet i think Apple will wait till everyone else boards and then do it with the 6S and act like they've done something revolutionary.... kind of like they did when they added sms that dumb phones already did
1. Sure why not
2. This is the low end iphone. Like last years 5C. This is the '6C' 4.7" budget phone (my guess) coming in at $649. 5S dropping to $549, and 5C to 449. Last tears A7 soc, and last years 8mp camera.
The real 6 with all the goodies coming in 5.5" flavor and the rumored $100 bump to base price of $749. Apple has 'solved' the UI problem of one handed use, and will be going full bore PHABLET. A8 soc, and 12mp camera.
Fall Lineup
$449 iPhone 5C 16GB
$549 iPhone 5S 16GB
$649 iPhone 6C 4.7" ??GB (mockup in thread) hopefully 32GB, A7?
$749 iPhone 6 5.5", truetone flash, stereo speakers with Beats audio(ala HTC ONE), no lcd bezel, A8, 1-2month delay, and rumored $100 increase.
3. No. Never used an iPhone? Previous iPhones 4 through 5S have had 1 set of speaker holes to 1 side of connector, and 1 set of microphone holes to the other side of the connector.
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i understand what they do.... I don't don't think they look too good. With the billion of dollars they have they should be able to come up with something(new material) to not have those breaks.
HTC ONE had Beats brand stereo audio....HTC One has that dimensions because of a pair of state-of-the-art STEREO speakers ! What does iPhone has ? One f..ing huge button and nothing else.
The dimensions are HUGE! Nowdays you'll get a 5'' inch on this dimensions!
Get my drift
also
It has a single microphone holes to the left of the port, near headphone jack. All you need for microphone,
Those were non Apple entities. If Apple buys Beats, the company, as rumored; "Beats" will be an Apple brand.
Wouldnt two LED's behind a round aperture mean that one or both are off center? When off center, the light beams would be an asymmetric projection. I am not sure if that is desirable.
I looking forward to a Quad HD or a 2K screen resolution myself. Samsung S5 Prime and HTC Prime One and LG G3 will have the 2K screen resolutions in them. It will be hard for Apple to not to have it and say that HD is good enough! Plus, the Prime will have the Snapdragon 805 inside it too!
Apple needs the A8S and upgrade graphics to be on par with these Prime smartphones. The A8 needs to be skipped!
Yes and Apple is crying loud .... They sold just a couple of iPhones in the last three years ....
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Maybe, and just maybe, because moto x has no physical buttons ?
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Even on the iPhone 6C we are not going to see any Beats logo ... this is apple, not HTC ...
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There is no logo on any iPad, iPod, iPhone or Mac, other than the apple .....
To me the mockup looks like a Lumia 925 except for the Touch ID and the side keys.
925 has round/squared edges. Mockup has round edges.
The bottom and top side dark lines on the "metal" are the same.
I'll buy an iPhone 6 to use the iOS apps and I'll continue to use my 925 as well.
Now is the time for an iPhone, it's now or never
925 has round/squared edges. Mockup has round edges.
The bottom and top side dark lines on the "metal" are the same.
I'll buy an iPhone 6 to use the iOS apps and I'll continue to use my 925 as well.
Now is the time for an iPhone, it's now or never
HTC One has that dimensions because of a pair of state-of-the-art STEREO speakers ! What does iPhone has ? One f..ing huge button and nothing else.
The dimensions are HUGE! Nowdays you'll get a 5'' inch on this dimensions!
Touchid, never heard about it ? Surely it is more important than any gimmick stereo speakers (because how many people use internal speakers on a phone ?) ...