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The antenna lines did ruin the look of an otherwise beautiful looking phone with the iPhone 6 and 6s (which they redeemed with the 7) but the whole camera array and different levels of humps and bumps, and the large size of the whole camera housing makes the iPhone 11 Pro look really cheap and uninspiring. The square camera area is too large and takes too much space making the whole phone look awkward and incomplete. No wonder why Apple moved the Apple logo downwards to the centre, because originally it was too close to the large square camera array and made the area look too busy.

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But you’re talking aesthetics only. You have no idea why the camera array is like that. You just think it’s ugly therefore it should be something else. What was so beautiful about the 6? It was just a slab of aluminum. What’s inspired about that?
 
apple cant do anything else but update the camera? this is a phone not a camera, improve the important things like form factor ergonomics, sjobs would never release phones like this with bunny ears display and a block sticking out of the back, what a joke

Never too late for a good old Steve Jobs would never have “insert personalized complaint here”.
 
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For the life of me I don't understand this. You want a pretty phone? Who? Why? Maybe a teenage girl who thinks a phone is a fashion accessory. 1st off, pretty or ugly are subjective terms, what you find ugly, others will find beautiful. 2nd and most important, phones are tools. I don't need my hammer to be pretty and I don't need my phone to be pretty. I want my phone to be fast, to "just work" and to take nice photos. These phones do all that, and to my eye, look pretty nice.
 
The Pro camera bump is this year’s notch. People will get over it really quickly, especially if the camera ends up delivering all those awesome features they showed on stage. The pro camera lens cutouts remind me of those old small hand-held video cameras. Definitely prefer these over the leaked Pixel 4 design. Yuck.
 
I’m honestly thinking of pre ordering the iPhone 11 instead of the Pro. Not that it’s prettier it’s just less ugly. Still very ugly phones though.
Never expected something like this, but I guess it’s the Apple we got today $$$.
 
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But you’re talking aesthetics only. You have no idea why the camera array is like that. You just think it’s ugly therefore it should be something else. What was so beautiful about the 6? It was just a slab of aluminum. What’s inspired about that?
Of course I’m talking aesthetics only, that’s the whole premise of this thread (something many folks are forgetting).

Perhaps it was laziness that Apple chose to go for the square camera design? Maybe a lack of room internally for better placement? Or maybe they intentionally decided to make the iPhone 11 Pro look like that just so that the phone stands out from the overcrowded smartphone market? Who knows? Apple does strange stuff.

I also take that back, the iPhone 6/6s weren’t good looking phones either. But hey at least they didn’t awaken your inner arachnophobia!
 
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apple cant do anything else but update the camera? this is a phone not a camera, improve the important things like form factor ergonomics, sjobs would never release phones like this with bunny ears display and a block sticking out of the back, what a joke

Ahh, yes, it never fails when someone tries to speak for Steve Jobs, as if you really understood his mindset and overall design cues. _Some_ of Steve Jobs designs weren’t the most influential, and things have greatly changed with Apple since then. It’s probably better that you leave him out of the equation, being no one here could speak for him.
 
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For the life of me I don't understand this. You want a pretty phone? Who? Why? Maybe a teenage girl who thinks a phone is a fashion accessory. 1st off, pretty or ugly are subjective terms, what you find ugly, others will find beautiful. 2nd and most important, phones are tools. I don't need my hammer to be pretty and I don't need my phone to be pretty. I want my phone to be fast, to "just work" and to take nice photos. These phones do all that, and to my eye, look pretty nice.

So now we're making excuses for them making a butt ugly stove top looking phone? Now a phone being ugly is okay, and we're going to pretend the looks don't matter? lol That's a new level of being an iPhone apologist. By your logic, people shouldn't care about buying a nice looking car or a nice looking house either. All they should care about is if the car drives, and if the house has four walls and a roof. Needless to say, your position is ridiculous.
 
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Looking at the leaks I thought it was ugly but now that I saw the finish product I kinda like the new iPhones.
 
If you didn’t expect to much than you aren’t disappointed
Next year will be a bigger year with 5G and possibly a foldable iPhone. Hopefully
 
Wow, what a hideous beast.

Sure they may be the most powerful iPhones or smartphones ever made but their design is quite an eye sore, mainly due to the obtrusive ugly camera housing. There is now not one camera bump, but THREE separate camera bumps on top of the main camera housing bump. These bumps and grooves will collect dust, grime, dirt, and other crap like no tomorrow! Slapping on a case doesn't excuse lazy design!

Even the iPhone X/XS looks better than the 11 Pros because it has only one camera bump and flush sensors.

Just look at this thing:

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I'm not scared of spiders but after seeing the 11 Pros, I am now. For comparison:

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It looks awesome and so does the spider :D
 
Looks are subjective, but I don't think it's ugly any more than it looks unusual for now, but they'll begin to look normal eventually. It's not like it's the first smartphone to have more than two cameras.

First time I saw the iPhone 4 prototype I thought it was damn ugly too, but over time I learnt to appreciate it and now it's regarded as one of the most iconic Apple designs ever.
 
First time I saw the iPhone 4 prototype I thought it was damn ugly too, but over time I learnt to appreciate it and now it's regarded as one of the most iconic Apple designs ever.
The iPhone 4/4s is the best iPhone ever made in terms of design. I'm surprised you had that initial reaction to it, but then again everyone is different and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It would be cool if Apple returned to the iPhone 4/4s and 5/5s boxy, square design like they have with the latest iPad Pros. Hopefully next year we'll see a redesign that'll redeem Apple for the current abomination that is the iPhone 11 Pro.
 
Of course I’m talking aesthetics only, that’s the whole premise of this thread (something many folks are forgetting).

Perhaps it was laziness that Apple chose to go for the square camera design? Maybe a lack of room internally for better placement? Or maybe they intentionally decided to make the iPhone 11 Pro look like that just so that the phone stands out from the overcrowded smartphone market? Who knows? Apple does strange stuff.

I also take that back, the iPhone 6/6s weren’t good looking phones either. But hey at least they didn’t awaken your inner arachnophobia!
Well I’m never looking at the back of my phone so the camera lenses don’t mean much to me. I have no idea why the design is the way it is but one would assume engineering dictated it. Now if you want to argue the designers should have pushed back on the engineers or themselves engineered a solution that was more aesthetically pleasing you can but none of us know what happened inside Apple. Maybe this was the best that could be done under the constraints they had. Maybe everything will look completely different with the next complete redesign. Or maybe Apple doesn’t care how aesthetically pleasing the camera lenses arrangement is. Obviously Apple couldn’t avoid the camera bump this year but they certainly leaned into it. Go to their website and the first thing you see is the 11 Pro camera bump.
 
Maybe this was the best that could be done under the constraints they had. Maybe everything will look completely different with the next complete redesign.
Maybe and I hope so. As much as I love my iPhone SE, I would like to upgrade sooner than later.

Go to their website and the first thing you see is the 11 Pro camera bump.
Yeah they're shoving the design into peoples faces so that over time people will get used to its hideous nature.
 
For the life of me I don't understand this. You want a pretty phone? Who? Why? Maybe a teenage girl who thinks a phone is a fashion accessory. 1st off, pretty or ugly are subjective terms, what you find ugly, others will find beautiful. 2nd and most important, phones are tools. I don't need my hammer to be pretty and I don't need my phone to be pretty. I want my phone to be fast, to "just work" and to take nice photos. These phones do all that, and to my eye, look pretty nice.

Haha dude, the majority of people around here is not as down to earth as you are...
 
apple cant do anything else but update the camera? this is a phone not a camera, improve the important things like form factor ergonomics, JIve would never release phones like this with bunny ears display and a block sticking out of the back, what a joke
correction JIve
 
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