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Video Shows iPhone 17 Mockups Based on 'Internal Documents'

HJM.NL said:
I can’t understand the protruding twice. Once for the bar and another time for the cameras.

Wouldn’t it be nicer the cameras flushes with the bar? Or does Apple wants to differentiate itself from the Google pixel pro which looks, in my opinion, much more balanced than this monster.
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Yeah, not sure what the reason would be. It’s not like phone manufacturers typically include the camera bump when they list the “depth” of the device in the specifications anyway. I expect the bump will continue to grow but the specs will still list ~8-8.5 mm for depth (for a Pro Max sized phone). It’s as if they think excluding it from the measurement somehow means it does not exist and should not matter.
 
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Another year, another camera bump. There hasn't been a flush mounted camera on a flagship iPhone since the iPhone 5s in 2013. So the iPhone 17 will mark 12 years of camera bumps. Tim Cook's mediocrity continues. Steve Jobs probably wouldn't have allowed even one year of a camera bump, let alone 12. No iPhone released under Jobs ever had a camera bump.
 
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Not unhappy with the design. Would like to hear more about the colours for the upcoming iPhones. Looks more and more likely that this will be the final design.
 
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really not looking forward of another six months of these mockups. hopefully when apple announces them they'll look less hideous in person (somehow), but for the time being it's woozy face e'ry day: 🥴
 
The cases for these things are going to be huge. Cases often will be designed to protect the camera lens from getting scratched when placed down on a surface, and so a case for the bump-on-a-bump design for the Air will highlight its true depth.

I'd really hoped the Air would be a compelling replacement for my 13 Mini. A ridge without an additional bump would have pulled that off, allowing the ridge to stabilize the phone on a flat surface and accommodating a camera within a thin form factor. But the bump on the ridge just undoes all that.
 
Aeronauts said:
Is there a reason they can’t put the cameras in a line so both new models have the same long bar design?
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I'm guessing they're arrayed that way so that you can take stereo images/video in landscape format for the Vision Pro. If they put the lenses in the more "sensible" horizontal format, you'd get L/R stereo images in portrait mode and upper/lower stacked stereo images in landscape.

The only way to fix that (have sensors in a horizontal row to capture stereo images, but still have normal images capture in the screen orientation) would be to make the image sensors square and just ignore either the top/bottom parts, or left/right parts, to end up with the desired aspect ratio. Still, then, when shooting stereo images/video, you'd have small landscape window occupying the middle third, or quarter, of your portrait-format phone's screen. And they're unlikely to build square sensors where one third of the sensor is getting ignored 95% of the time.
 
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CarlJ said:
Nobody should be buying phones "year after year". Only buy a new one when your current phone cannot do something that you really need.
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I don't think you should tell anyone how to spend their money. I buy multiple foldables each year, because I like to try several out to be sure I have the best one available for my use case. You should worry about how you spend your own money, and I will worry about how I spend mine.
 
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