This comment is really iconic for the ridiculously high standards people hold against Apple nowadays.Johnny Ive's will probably make the iphone 6 look like a small ipad air. Super boring.
The iphone 4 is the most beautiful smartphone design to date imho. I'd love to be amazed again by an iphone design. It would be great if they would make use of a new material, like some sort of satin textured laminated ceramic backed iphone or something. Or machine an entire casing out of a brick of sapphire. But i'm sure a lot of the design has to do with engineering and cost limitations.
If the new iPhone doesn't have some satin texutred laminated ceramic back, people are bored... Jeez! The hell.
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- What's wrong with the number of side buttons? It's the same as the iPhone 5.Tooo many side buttons
+rounded flash (no dual led)
+too big usim slot
+protuding camera
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Tells me tot an iPhone, as much its an premium kirf or an Engineering prototype for the bigger 5.5" iPod Touch.
- How big is the uslim slot, really? You can't tell from these photos. Furthermore, why would Apple make a prototype with a bigger sim slot than they currently use? Makes no sense.
- Protuding camera is something they use on the iPod Touch.
Either this is fake or it's the real thing, but if it's real the final design is gonna be very similar to what's shown here.
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Apple doesn't do revolutionairy leaps besides the first product in a new category. But after that, they iterate. Always.The overall design has clear influence from the 4S, 5C, and iPod Touch. It pushes the limits of thin-ness, but I'm not sure it'll be a revolutionary leap but as we know nothing about the materials or internals I'm sure there will be surprises this September.