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Rumored 6.7-Inch iPhone Said to Be Thinner, Have Larger Rear Camera Sensors, and More
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I don't think so, the phone will be taller and wider, this would offset the thinnest design.
Got it. We should all have to deal with a thicker and heavier phone all the time as to not inconvenience you having to use a battery case when you use your bicycle tracking app during a long bicycle trip.
You do have to take a moment out of your day to appreciate the great effort by Tim and his team to make your buying decision just a little more complicated than it should be. Especially if you want a phone that easily fits in your pocket, has all of the latest tech, has just the right amount of storage, not too little, not overkill and doesn’t destroy your wallet.
hope larger rear sensor wouldn't mind "larger physical size of the circumference " manufacturers are making cameras larger to look better, when the truth is the real window for the sensor is quite small, you can put tape over the glass around the small "eye" and you would see has no effect on light or quality. except for the wide angle, but even here the glass is far to large Vs the real opening the sensor needs
I’m going to take everything with a grain of salt until March/April rolls around. However, I still would like the larger phones to be reduced in weight, more so than anything.
The lenses will be cone-shaped, similar to Madonna's bras.
Actually, make it thicker so that
- You get rid of that ugly camera lump that's sticking out
- It's easier to pick up
- It can have a bigger battery
I’ve always asked for a thinner phone so I’m happy for this news.
That may be true, but without a cost breakdown provided by Apple, we have no way of telling. And more units is not always better, there is such a thing as diseconomies of scale. Apple is now selling around 200 million iPhones annually, 80 million more than 2012, the last year of one iPhone type only. It might actually be harder/more expensive/downright impossible to source for example 200 million screens of exactly the same type, compared to the current situation of, say, 50 million of this type, 50 million of that and so on.
Correction: This extends one-handed use to a larger portion of the population. There are plenty of people for whom the 5.8” iPhones are perfectly useable with one hand. And there will be plenty of people for whom the 5.4” iPhone won’t be useable with one hand. One-handed use is a spectrum, not a binary thing (seen from the phone’s perspective).
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Which iPhone except for the iPhone 6 was suffering from durability issues due to it’s thinness?
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So if you want a smaller phone next year you’re basically left with a downgrade compared to the regular iPhone 11 Pro camera-wise: two sensors instead of three? I’m really annoyed they’re pulling this stunt again instead of offering the same camera technology on both sizes. If these rumors are true that is.
I'm just hoping they don't do the classic thing and sell the smaller device as a low-end device. I'll still buy it, but I'd feel much better if they gave it the love a high-end device deserves. Just because it's small doesn't mean it has to be made for a lower price!
Do any of those 10x phone cameras actually produce crisp pictures?
Having compared my iPhone 6 with my X and my 11 Pro, the sound quality and volume made a significant step forward each time.
It won’t have pro features but it also won’t have a pro price. Which means the masses will love it and sell in droves like the XR and 11.
Some might still reminisce about the glory days that brought us the 12” PowerBook, not the ultra thin laptops of today. Point being, laptops aren’t 30 mm thick anymore not because of Ive, but because 99% of people prefer thinner and lighter than that over a 2-day battery life.
I have to wonder why these people follow Apple in the first place? If you’re that kind of person that wants thicker and heavier Apple is clearly not the company to follow. They’ve always been about making things as thin and light as possible, removing ports etc. Yet people still act outraged when they do the same thing they’ve been doing for 20 years.
Disclaimer yes I’m aware their phones have been getting thicker and heavier but I mean in general.
