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Roundup: A Look at Various iPhone 8 Concepts and Mockups
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I do wish I had the skills like these people to do 3D renderings so I could communicate my idea, but these mock ups don't cut it in my opinion. My view is the next device will be made from glass ceramic, in six colors blue, black, white, gold, rose gold, silver. If there is any metal exposed, it will run thinly cased inside the glass around the perimeter or it will run thinly around the perimeter of the device sandwiched inside the device. There won't be a protruding camera either as the device will be marginally thicker. Not sure why some mock ups feature protruding cameras. Seems to set a low bar in my opinion.
You didn't watch the first one all the way through? It clearly has a touch bar style function.
This case manufacturers understand and know that they need to make a concept design case based off rumors. They also have an uncertainty of what the next iPhone will look like, unless they have inside sources with the manufactures. But believe me, don't feel sorry for them, they make millions of dollars a year selling you cheap plastic cases that are marked up 4 to 5 times.
And, once the physical rumors start to fly, you'll start seeing the manufacturers developing cases in a weeks time to intentionally build hype.
Some of those look decent. I still want one of these from the concept realm to come true.
But Johnny Ive would make that back from a revolutionary beautiful transparent metallic alloy just to add butt ugly antenna bands again.
The touch bar concept at top and bottom with the normal 16 x 9 screen between would be massive. You could play games using touch bar controls without obscuring the screen.
The only one I didn't like was the one with the screen curving around the edge.
Wasn't much of a fan of having the home button on the side either.
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Could just be perfect!
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The only one I didn't like was the one with the screen curving around the edge.
Wasn't much of a fan of having the home button on the side either.
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There is room at the top and bottom of that screen though for a touch bar. Same screen, same aspect ratio, same resolution but with added controls at top and bottom.
Could just be perfect!
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The 7 was more of a 6ss. The rumours began before it was released that the big redesign would be this year.
I am looking to upgrade from my iPhone 6 Plus but I will wait until the second generation iPhone 8 is ready.
The 2016 MacBook Pro w Touch bar also featured new and innovative upgrades however IMHO the computer blows and was NOT ready for release to the consumer.
The 2016 MacBook Pro w Touch bar also featured new and innovative upgrades however IMHO the computer blows and was NOT ready for release to the consumer.
Do you mean a physical home button on the front of the device, or would you be fine with the side button (sleep button) basically taking over the role of the home button?
That isn't anything Ive wouldn't do. Tim just called and likes the idea. They are pulling the battery and the port and making it paper thin.
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Yeah it is true that the dual screen doesn't make sense. However it is the nicest mock up out of all of them. Disregard the screen on the back and it looks pretty good with the touch bar and no bezels.
Mouse support for an iPad and being able to drive a 4K and 5K external monitors would be awesome. Especially, with the performance of what is expected to come out of Apple's next generation CPU/GPU's. Should be faster than even some of the latest MacBook Pro machines.
It's just unlikely. Except for the Mac you mentioned no product had an anniversary edition.
I'm over the iPhone and mobile phones. My 6s is good enough. With that said I'm hoping the iPhone 8 has a new design, but more importantly new internals - better camera that's truly better than the 6s not just incrementally better, maybe the dual camera set up with a 4 time zoom and not the pointless 2X zoom. Better audio guts and better battery life as it relates to camera functionality - notice a theme here? I have professional DSLR 4k cameras but I find myself always resorting to my iPhone 6S video camera just because it's easier to deal with in a lot of situations.
I really love the design that's effectively a whole screen, and a fingerprint scanner beneath the display panel. Obviously that's where we're heading.
But I'm wondering what can be done about the sides of the phone. Could volume be a touch panel on the side? Slide up+down on a specific section where the buttons once were. Could a data cable be attached using that (it's name escapes me) 3-dot port that iPads have?
I mourn the loss of a headphone port and I won't be upgrading my iPhone 6 any time soon. But if we do get to a stage where there are no ports or physical buttons then that would be a device I'd jump on.
I wonder if ultimately we'll get a phone that has an all-round display so it always "faces up" when on a desk?
Or if there will be no display at all. That the phone holds the processing, battery gubbins but it also acts as a placemarker for an augmented secondary device (like glasses or a contact lens) that renders the system over the top of it. That'd be nice... and about 20 years away.
But I'm wondering what can be done about the sides of the phone. Could volume be a touch panel on the side? Slide up+down on a specific section where the buttons once were. Could a data cable be attached using that (it's name escapes me) 3-dot port that iPads have?
I mourn the loss of a headphone port and I won't be upgrading my iPhone 6 any time soon. But if we do get to a stage where there are no ports or physical buttons then that would be a device I'd jump on.
I wonder if ultimately we'll get a phone that has an all-round display so it always "faces up" when on a desk?
Or if there will be no display at all. That the phone holds the processing, battery gubbins but it also acts as a placemarker for an augmented secondary device (like glasses or a contact lens) that renders the system over the top of it. That'd be nice... and about 20 years away.
Usability was abandoned when Ive took over all Apple design (vs just hardware where he belongs).