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The iPhone of Your Dreams is Reportedly Less Than Two Years Away
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So in less than two years the iPhone Mini of my dreams will be available?
...and people will still have to get cheap $5 cases to protect the all screen design. I can already see the YouTube drop test videos with shattered screens...🙄
I will literally move into the woods and forego society before I get a retinal implant, and especially given the "quality" of companies we have pushing all the tech now.
If you think of Apple as primarily an insurance company that sells the problem (slippery, glass phones) and charges recurring revenue for the solution (Apple care, cloud storage, etc), then it’s in their best interest to make phones as fragile as possible. Oldest trick in the book.
And in the same spirit, make the default photo size larger and larger so that it takes up more space, and then you have to switch to a more expensive tier of iCloud.
“More megapixels baby!”
This really gets at the corrosive influence of Apple leaning into Services as a driver of revenue growth.
One can't help but begin to question design & feature motives up and down the product lineups.
the phone of my dreams is not made of glass sorry.
Still one of my favorites, along with the iPhone Xs as a close second.
2027 is on my personal "update" cycle (I try to get 3+ years out of my iPhones), so, maybe I'll bite on it <shrug>. Though I gotta say, like others have pointed out, my first thought was, "How the hell will it work in a folio wallet case?"
lol none of those things are in the "iphone of my dreams".
I want an iPhone with no camera bump, larger battery, and smaller size.
I want an iPhone with no camera bump, larger battery, and smaller size.
This actually is my iPhone dream. Has been for a long time. Do you remember when we carried around our iPhone 3G devices? Small display, no camera flash or even video recording capability. Imagine jumping from that to the fake phone in the image. It would blow your mind.
the iphone of my dreams would be a truly pro device with both the hardware and software to allow you to plug it in to various docks and transform it into a desktop, laptop, tablet, or media center.
imagine sitting down to your desk and then working on documents on a monitor with keyboard or sliding it into a laptop style chassis and working on the go. artists can slide it into a large ipad for apple pencil use. everyone can connect it to their tv to function as an apple tv.
this would require apple to be consistent with a phone form factor for at least a decade, but they would still make a killing on the dock accessories.
imagine sitting down to your desk and then working on documents on a monitor with keyboard or sliding it into a laptop style chassis and working on the go. artists can slide it into a large ipad for apple pencil use. everyone can connect it to their tv to function as an apple tv.
this would require apple to be consistent with a phone form factor for at least a decade, but they would still make a killing on the dock accessories.
So many on here lack vision. First, everyone is reacting to a random mockup that will have no bearing on the final design - so enough of the Samsung curve comparisons (yawn). Second, a truly seamless piece of glass is intriguing... I think the basic idea they're going for is that whole 'Minority Report' aesthetic where you're able to hold a piece of physical technology, but it 'feels' like something more organic and fluid. How they create something like that which doesn't shatter into a million pieces - who knows. But Apple has been innovative with material design before - albeit a while ago.
Any cover made for it would have a cut out for the edge screen, or people would freak
Well looks like I’ll be saving money that year 🤣. I’ve been iPhone since the 3s but jumping ship next year if they can’t improve on the 14 Pro / Pro Max and iOS 18 as a tough, reliable business phone.
It's the Kinect sensor technology from Xbox which was released in 2010. They acquired the company who developed the technology and just shrunk it down into the notch.
When you think about it the notch just looks like a mini Kinect sensor.
Ah yes, the headphone output - let's have that back. Other than that, you can't be serious.