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Whatever happened to the teardrop iPhone 5 from last year?
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You picked up on my sarcasm .... they didn't
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Who buys the iPhone? Humans. Do you have complete faith that there are fewer idiots among them than those that are not? I sure don't!
Cue the over-the-top, overly dramatic, doomsday, "mother of all lawsuits" patent infringement posts.
As hard as it is to admit, I expected Apple to turn J.Ive loose to design the ultimate, incredibly attractive iPhone.
But I'm glad they kept the same exact style. Anything more would have shocked me so dramatically, I'm not sure if I could've handled it.
Needless to say, the phone is so revolutionary I believe it would be impossible to improve on. My no wonder Apples got all the cash.
To be honest I liked the teardrop mockups from last year. At least the ones MR made.
I like the iPhone 4 design too, but I don't like the idea of it being stretched. I don't want/need another row of icons. I would hope that any increase in screen size would be wider as well. I am going to wait and see what happens though. If the stretched mockups turn out to be true, but the other specs are killer, then I can live with it. But if the specs aren't where I want them to be I might try out another phone for a little while. I love apple, and I would never switch back to Windows in a million years, but the mobile OS market changes so fast and I'm not convinced they are going to wow me this year. I kind of hope I'm wrong because I don't really want to leave the ecosystem, even if it's just for a little while.
I like the iPhone 4 design too, but I don't like the idea of it being stretched. I don't want/need another row of icons. I would hope that any increase in screen size would be wider as well. I am going to wait and see what happens though. If the stretched mockups turn out to be true, but the other specs are killer, then I can live with it. But if the specs aren't where I want them to be I might try out another phone for a little while. I love apple, and I would never switch back to Windows in a million years, but the mobile OS market changes so fast and I'm not convinced they are going to wow me this year. I kind of hope I'm wrong because I don't really want to leave the ecosystem, even if it's just for a little while.
Mother of mercy, I hope the new iPhone does not look like that. I will stick with my iPhone 4 if they go with that design.
Can we please stop calling it a teardrop?
Call it tapered....
Call it wedge-shaped....
Call it any number of things but there was absolutely nothing at all even remotely teardrop-like about this alledged design.
Oh.......... and don't call it the iPhone 5.
Call it the iPhone 6.
Or call it the New iPhone.
Or call it the iPhone 4S Ultra.
Or call it the iPhone 5.
Uh, wait a minute.......
What was I saying?
Call it tapered....
Call it wedge-shaped....
Call it any number of things but there was absolutely nothing at all even remotely teardrop-like about this alledged design.
Oh.......... and don't call it the iPhone 5.
Call it the iPhone 6.
Or call it the New iPhone.
Or call it the iPhone 4S Ultra.
Or call it the iPhone 5.
Uh, wait a minute.......
What was I saying?
Agreed. I would like to see that be the next design. It's taken me this long to get used to the 4 / 4s design. If the next phone maintains the current form factor there's gotta be a whole lot of other good stuff for me to upgrade.
No it wasn't. What is currently slated to be released is hideous. The phone below is what should have been.
Hideous home button and how's that thing supposed to sit in a dock? Not to mention there's no room inside for actual components.
Im not due for my upgrade until January, so i have time to not like the new design, but then for it to slowly grow on me and be excited about it. I may have to pay full price for the thing so i hope it does grow on me.
I do not like the two-tone rumors, but other then that all else is ok.
I do not like the two-tone rumors, but other then that all else is ok.
I won't because the MacBook Air is symmetric despite its teardrop shape because it has only one orientation.
Nope, still considering that hideous. It looks like the bottom of the phone would snap like a friggin' toothpick.
This mockup was my fav.
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/29/physical-mockup-of-iphone-5-with-tapered-design/
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/29/physical-mockup-of-iphone-5-with-tapered-design/
I'd like something like this but without such a dramatic home button. The current size of the home button is already too much. It's a huge contributor to the bottom bezel being so huge. I am beginning to hate the huge bezels on the iPhone. The internals mean a lot more to me, but after all these years I am starting to get a little more demanding when it comes to the actual design of the phone.