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Which "gate" is being cooked up this year's iPhone? [MERGED]
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The wringing of hands has subsided for a while as they apply skin moisturizer to chapped hands. It will resume in earnest once the presentation by Apple is made.
No need to be so formal. Just cal me, What the HEK.Nope I just figured there should be a gate on gates Mr HEK
Well looking at those Note 7 scratch tests and assuming the iPhone 7 also uses GG5 it'll be scratchgate!
Maybe all of this (missing headphone jack, lackluster design, ugly antenna lines, camera hump and no physical home button) should be rolled up into one and we call it TimCook-gate. Because ultimately he is signing off on all of this and it will be his fault if this next iPhone doesn't live up to previous models.
I really don't see this phone beating the iPhone 6 or 6S models in sales. I see more people jumping back to Android because they got bored. Their pretty much guaranteed a new design and operating system if they've been a iOS user the pass 2 years. Even seasoned vets of iOS are getting bored. I'm using the iOS 10 beta on my iPhone SE and while its reliable it's no different from iOS 9. How about adding the capability of changing the home launcher. That by itself would be major. Or add a theme engine. That would generate so much revenue for developers and Apple.
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That reason is at the top of my list on why I'm skipping the Note 7. Normally you would just buy a screen protector but due to the curve it's nearly impossible to find a glass protector without problems.
I don't mind Gorilla Glass 5 as long as the screen is flat. It was so refreshing to use a $5 glass screen protector on my iPhone SE with excellent results. But on my iPhone 6S and Galaxy S7 they both have a tiny curve at the edges. If OEM's can't give us scratch proof displays please don't make it difficult to use a decent screen protector.
I really don't see this phone beating the iPhone 6 or 6S models in sales. I see more people jumping back to Android because they got bored. Their pretty much guaranteed a new design and operating system if they've been a iOS user the pass 2 years. Even seasoned vets of iOS are getting bored. I'm using the iOS 10 beta on my iPhone SE and while its reliable it's no different from iOS 9. How about adding the capability of changing the home launcher. That by itself would be major. Or add a theme engine. That would generate so much revenue for developers and Apple.
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That reason is at the top of my list on why I'm skipping the Note 7. Normally you would just buy a screen protector but due to the curve it's nearly impossible to find a glass protector without problems.
I don't mind Gorilla Glass 5 as long as the screen is flat. It was so refreshing to use a $5 glass screen protector on my iPhone SE with excellent results. But on my iPhone 6S and Galaxy S7 they both have a tiny curve at the edges. If OEM's can't give us scratch proof displays please don't make it difficult to use a decent screen protector.
Yep, the curved screen on the iPhone 6 variants is pretty annoying when you need a screen protector! If GG are going for shatter proof rather than scratch resistant everyone will have to use screen protectors going forward, so Apple should change to flat screens.
Imagine what the media reaction will be if the new iPhone's screen is as easily scratchable as the Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 glass screen more easily damaged than any iPhone
Reviewers and YouTube examiners are discovering that the new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Gorilla Glass 5 screen is susceptible to screen scratches. However, the Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning disagrees with the test results, and has fired back.
Initial reviewers pointed to the ease that their Galaxy Note 7 screens made with the recently announcedGorilla Glass 5 were readily picking up scratches in a brief review period. Compounding the reviewers' claims, frequent product test video generator YouTube Channel JerryRigEverything found that a relatively very soft scratch-testing pick caused damage to the screen glass.
The Mohs hardness scale ranges from 1 to 10, with talc having a rating of 1, and diamond coming in at 10. Sapphire crystal is rated at 9, with Gorilla Glass, and all glass, falling in between 5 and 7, depending on hundreds of variables introduced accidentally or intentionally during the manufacturing process. Beach sand has several components, but generally peaks at a Mohs hardness of 8.5, explaining why sand in a bag with a phone results in a badly scarred device.
JerryRigEverything succeeded in damaging the screen with a testing pick of Mohs hardness 3. A tempered glass screen protector tested in the video in parallel with the Galaxy Note 7 was scratched with hardness 5 pick.
The iPhone 5s screen with Gorilla Glass 4 was rated at a Mohs hardness of 6.8. The Mohs rating of the iPhone 6 with Apple's ion-hardened glass is not known, but does scratch more readily than the iPhone 5s does.
The tester claims that most smartphones, including the iPhone, are scratched at around hardness 6. A screen scratching at hardness 3 is only slightly more scratch resistant than plastic.
Reviewers and YouTube examiners are discovering that the new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Gorilla Glass 5 screen is susceptible to screen scratches. However, the Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning disagrees with the test results, and has fired back.
Initial reviewers pointed to the ease that their Galaxy Note 7 screens made with the recently announcedGorilla Glass 5 were readily picking up scratches in a brief review period. Compounding the reviewers' claims, frequent product test video generator YouTube Channel JerryRigEverything found that a relatively very soft scratch-testing pick caused damage to the screen glass.
The Mohs hardness scale ranges from 1 to 10, with talc having a rating of 1, and diamond coming in at 10. Sapphire crystal is rated at 9, with Gorilla Glass, and all glass, falling in between 5 and 7, depending on hundreds of variables introduced accidentally or intentionally during the manufacturing process. Beach sand has several components, but generally peaks at a Mohs hardness of 8.5, explaining why sand in a bag with a phone results in a badly scarred device.
JerryRigEverything succeeded in damaging the screen with a testing pick of Mohs hardness 3. A tempered glass screen protector tested in the video in parallel with the Galaxy Note 7 was scratched with hardness 5 pick.
The iPhone 5s screen with Gorilla Glass 4 was rated at a Mohs hardness of 6.8. The Mohs rating of the iPhone 6 with Apple's ion-hardened glass is not known, but does scratch more readily than the iPhone 5s does.
The tester claims that most smartphones, including the iPhone, are scratched at around hardness 6. A screen scratching at hardness 3 is only slightly more scratch resistant than plastic.
Life-gate. When people stop having a life amidst attempts to "predict" stuff like this. Sure, this is a rumours site, but do we really have the time to waste in predicting which gate is next? Really?
My current 6S+ already bangs my knee with every step with cargo shorts unless I keep sliding it to the other side of the pocket.
As you say, this is a "rumours" site, and I happen to find the annual mass attacks on a device's purported weaknesses an interesting social /corporate phenomena to observe. I admit it. I think the real question here is, why are you stopping to comment on something you feel is meritless?
I suspect you "wasted" as much time writing this as everybody else did in writing their responses.
True.
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Let me say this in different words. I think it would have been better had you prefixed it with something that would suggest you are looking at it from a social/ corporate phenomena experimentation angle. With that in mind, it makes good sense. Otherwise, it looks like a waste of time to think and speculate about things that may or may not happen. When they do happen, then we can all channel ourselves to flame it.