Rumors Persist of Triple-Lens Camera in Square Bump on Higher-End 2019 iPhones

[EM2013]

Whose bright idea was it to put an Apple Watch screen back there?

 

[Col4bin]

Looks like I'll be holding onto my XS MAX for another year which is completely fine with me.

 

[slide_to_unlock]

Dear Apple, you can actually go BACK to thick phone. May be 10 people will complain. Most people won't.

 

[Col4bin]

The report also suggests the triple camera system could only be offered on higher storage capacity models. If Apple can’t offer the new camera system on a £1099 64GB Max variant then quite frankly I’m done with Apple. Price gouging at it’s finest. 64GB has been more than sufficient as I’m heavily invested in iCloud/Apple Music and I’m sure many others feel the same

I hear you. I took that same approach a few years yet came crawling back.

 

[Mr. Dee]

Well, its only been a year since I purchased my 2017 iPhone X. So, will be skipping 2019 too and possibly 2020 too because it will be the first iPhone with 5G so not gonna take any chances on that.

 

[Xian Zhu Xuande]

Enough of the "thinness wars;" can we just get a phone with a flat back again please?

Phones would be pretty thick if they matched the size of camera bumps. I'm sure a subset of people would appreciate it, but I'll wager the lion's share of consumers would not. Especially given the size of screens these days.

 

[SigEp265]

I would really like a Product(Red) iPhone XS Max ...

 

[cocky jeremy]

I don't care what it looks like as long as it helps take better pictures.

 

[udayan81]

Apple's design department will be declared dead if that is how it turns out to be.

 

[DoctorTech]

I'm not that worried about the camera bump. I always put my iPhone in an OtterBox case so the bump doesn't matter to me. I'm currently using the iPhone Xs Max which is a great phone and I will probably skip the 2019 iPhone rather than upgrading unless Apple delivers some truly "must have" feature in it (not sure what that might be - maybe integration with AR glasses?). Just a bump in camera or CPU performance isn't going to be enough to get me to upgrade this time around so I will probably be waiting and hoping for 5G in 2020 or even 2021.

 

[Benhamdoun]

That's a helluva bump by anyone's standards and couldn't be uglier. Has Ives had an undiagnosed stroke or something?

 

[Uobio]

Thought of it but will never give up my data or privacy to any other company so they can sell my data

Yeah, that’s a drawback but I’m just sick of the pricing. It’s just getting higher

 

[novakk86]

All of the reviewers keep saying that the Pixel 2 and Pixel 3 from Google take the best photos. Both are single camera equipped but the special sauce is in the image processing.

To me just adding more and more cameras to the phone is a brute force approach to try and create better photos when the smarter way is with engineering effort on the image processor and associated software.

But I'm just going by the reviews, I own neither an iPhone X/XS or a Pixel.

More cameras can mean more focal points

 

[Col4bin]

Introducing... iPhone XS MAX 2036!

 

[DrJohnnyN]

God that is so ugly!!

IMO look ugly. But we will see if it comes true how it look in real life.

Wow... Fugly is an understatement.

Doesnt look good at all.

Curious to why you think it's ugly.

 

[EvilEvil]

Screw it, just make the whole back of the device a huge camera array so it's impossible to hold or put in a case.

Just as long as they get rid of the notch.

 

[Beldarr]

Is apple making phones or cameras? It seems the newest updates over the last few years is mostly camera. Maybe a name change to Kodak would be fitting.

 

[nexusrule]

I think the rendering skews the perception of how it would look in real life. If I look at my iPhone X and imagine how the camera system would appear, the result seem definitely more pleasant than the actual one, smaller because way less tall and more contained and balanced, perhaps because of the square shape. But in the rendering it looks like ****.
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Is apple making phones or cameras? It seems the newest updates over the last few years is mostly camera. Maybe a name change to Kodak would be fitting.

Well, the camera is one of the top most used feature for the general population, it's also often used or essential in social networks and messaging, the are probably 90% of what 90% of people do with their smartphones. That's why it gets a lot of attention.

 

[borntrouble]

I dont need a Triple Lense Camera System! I need a phone that takes good pictures - one camera is completely enough for this task, but you need AI knowledge for this, and as we all know, Apple is in the stone age - AI wise.

 

[bpeeps]

Enough of the "thinness wars;" can we just get a phone with a flat back again please?

The phones have steadily gotten thicker since the iPhone 6.

 

[FFR]

Might have to skip the iPhone 11 if that’s what it’s going to look like.

 

[skitidetdu]

That last render looks a lot better than the previous.

 

[DocMultimedia]

I really don't care about the looks. The only thing I ask for is to have the top camera available on the non-Max version of the iPhone. I really can't stand the size of those beasts.

 

[GoodWheaties]

Screw it, just make the whole back of the device a huge camera array so it's impossible to hold or put in a case.

Nokia 9 is well on its way there.

 

[HJM.NL]

God that is so ugly!!

It’s like with faces... symmetry makes a person attractive they say