WSJ: Apple to increase iPhone screen size to 'at least' 4-inches
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I guess I'm just freakishly talented because I always spin mine in my palm and then drop it in my pocket like a cowboy holstering a gun.
I'll invent some cool new way of dropping this bad boy in my pocket, no doubt.
i put my phone in my pocket upside down (so i can easily view incoming texts with ease) but i greatly prefer the headphone jack on the top. I owned an ipod touch before an iphone and hated every second of the headphone jack being on the bottom
the power button is on the bottom? D:
the power button is on the bottom? D:
Well when you hold your phone, the top of it is always going to be farther than the bottom. At some point the cord will have to make up that distance. Just seems like it'd be simpler to just have it come from the bottom. Don't get me wrong, it's really not that big of a deal either way.
Lord Error
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Looks... off. But if it's thinner and has NFC, I'll live.
I'll say, the white version might look more appealing now, as white + aluminum on the back seem to work better in terms of color.
I'll say, the white version might look more appealing now, as white + aluminum on the back seem to work better in terms of color.
Kindle Fire, leading the revolution.
Oh I know, but just from a design standpoint it looks unpleasing.
Supposedly this was one of the projects he was deeply involved in while on his deathbed.
i could probably make a tasteless joke right about now
I'm pretty sure the antenna that the GPS chip uses on the iphone is already part of the external band (even though the chip is obviously inside). on the ipad and other apple devices, the antennas are all on the inside and need to be able to work through windows in the metal structure.
with the antenna on the outside, the front and back materials aren't as important, as far s I can tell
from the original iphone 4 reveal
Gotcha.. Then either this isn't the final design or there's a good reason behind it not being a single piece of metal. If this is the final design, then their security really is slipping at Apple.
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You could always live on the wild side and flip your phone in the air everytime before you put it in your pocket.
Lord Error
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(edit: sorry, I see that the picture was already posted)
Yeah, both white and black look odd in their own right.
Yeah, both white and black look odd in their own right.
The Faceless Master
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i always knew you had madskilz
NYR
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Steve had a hand in the design of this and you bet he approved it. It's not like this was developed after October...
Can it? The only adapter I've seen for MHL is HDMI. Are there others like Apple advertises for the iPad?
And honestly, I'm not a fan of the micro usb connector because I always have to look at the port and make sure it's in the right way before I can connect it. The dock connector isn't exactly easy either, but for that all I have to do is look at the top of the connector to make sure it's right side up and then I just push it in to the port.
Something magnetic like the magsafe would be fantastic.
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Are the volume toggles recessed? Or is it just the angle plus a slightly blurry section of the photo?
NYR
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It's just the casing, so just two empty holes. The volume buttons are not there in pic yet. I would assume they are exactly like the 4/4S, based on the casing design.
Lord Error
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I think that's just the outer shell, so the buttons are not in there.
I really don't like that either. I'm a fan of black + steel look of iPhone 4 :\ White one just looks plain better now, but I don't like white one for different reasons. At least on iPhone 4s, white dones't have the same shine and reflectiveness. Also that thin black border around the screen looks jarring on it.
Haven't been this bummed about redesign since the fat nano.
Looks like the buttons are just missing. They appear to be empty inside. You can see through the camera lens on the black one to the table beneath.
Yes, I plan on moving to Bluetooth devices anyway because of stupid earphones that always break.
How is the top farther than the bottom? The top is closest to my head. The bottom is farthest from my ears.
But like I said, I guess I have shorter cords, because I'm not encountering an issue with cords needing to wrap around the phone. Many of my holding patterns get the cord near the limit, and it gives me more flexibility to hold it, coming from the top.
Huh, I guess you hold your phone way differently than the way I hold mine.
honestly, they fixed up the 4's main weakness with the CDMA and 4S antennas. the problem with the 4 was that it was way too easy to attenuate signal with your hand. by having multiple cell antennas in the same band, your hand doesn't do nearly as much damage to the signal strength and it's as robust as older internal antennas.
How is at the top less in the way that at the bottom?
At the bottom it points immediately towards your body, whereas at the top it has to traverse the length of the phone some way or another to reach your ears.
What kind of bizarro phone holding technique
NYR
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Holy CRAP, how did I miss that. That looks awesome, monolith, FTW!!!
Did Apple really need to increase the size of the phone in order to increase the screen......couldn't they have used some of that 6" of black bezel on the top and bottom of the phone? Does the home button have to actually be the size of a thumb?
I think they could have really rethought the bezel design and come up with a 4" phone in the same form factor and really hit a home run with everyone...
I think they could have really rethought the bezel design and come up with a 4" phone in the same form factor and really hit a home run with everyone...
That's how I hold my phone. Seems like that's not true for everyone.
Kindly show me with a 2 min mspaint how you hold your phone? Do you hold it up directly in front of your face? Maybe I'm actually missing out on a whole methodology of how people hold phones and I'll finally understand why 3.5" is the only size where you can reach all corners comfortably.
Nobody seems to be talking about what's going on with the lenses there. That can't be the flash, it's just too big. Even the camera lens looks weird (bigger?) and what is that little slit? LED indicator?
Looks only slightly bigger. Pretty sure it's still the flash. Otherwise, where did the flash go? The slit might just be a back mic.
It's the mic for video recording.
Nobody seems to be talking about what's going on with the lenses there. That can't be the flash, it's just too big. Even the camera lens looks weird (bigger?) and what is that little slit? LED indicator?
One of the site's guessed its the second, noise cancelling mic. It matches the mic slit on the iPad 2.
Nobody seems to be talking about what's going on with the lenses there. That can't be the flash, it's just too big. Even the camera lens looks weird (bigger?) and what is that little slit? LED indicator?
NYR
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One thing I noticed. The back is totally FLUSH with the band (no gap or border along the edge).
The front still has a gap/border going around the screen and against the metal band, it's not as flush (like the current iPhone). Notice the white border on the bottom edge of the above pic?
Nobody seems to be talking about what's going on with the lenses there. That can't be the flash, it's just too big. Even the camera lens looks weird (bigger?) and what is that little slit? LED indicator?
Could be the perspective of the cameras, but I think the lens actually looks smaller in the new one while the flash looks to be the same size.
Lord Error
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Same thick bezel around the screen -_-
Seems like a really lazy redesign IMO, and just when I'm supposed to replace my phone. Ah well, it could have been worse.
Seems like a really lazy redesign IMO, and just when I'm supposed to replace my phone. Ah well, it could have been worse.
NYR
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We don't know that, could be a few mm thinner.
The phone will definitely be thinner simply because the back is fully flush now, no outside border along the edge.
The fuck? No way, what kind of backwards placement is that, putting it IN-BETWEEN the camera and the flash? Makes no sense.It's the mic for video recording.
Ahhh, a second mic. That could make some sense. Still weird placement.
Yeah there are Micro USB to VGA MHL Adapters. And if you get a Micro USB Host Mode OTG you can use it like it were a computer's usb port. The iOS ecosystem has a lot more accessories obviously. The comments about the usability of the microusb connector are spot on though.
it is kinda cool how it looks like they finally made a unibody iphone. half the phone milled from a single block of metal.
the thing is, though, all their other unibody designs are aluminum. light and easy to cut, but opaque to radio signals.
If the iphone's edge band is still working as an antenna - and it looks like it is from the markings - that means the blocks they're cutting are not aluminum but steel. that's tougher to mill out like that compared to aluminum.
I'd love to see the machines making those back pieces.
the thing is, though, all their other unibody designs are aluminum. light and easy to cut, but opaque to radio signals.
If the iphone's edge band is still working as an antenna - and it looks like it is from the markings - that means the blocks they're cutting are not aluminum but steel. that's tougher to mill out like that compared to aluminum.
I'd love to see the machines making those back pieces.
NYR
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Why can't it be both? A noise cancelling mic for calls, and a mic for video recording...
You also have to remember - the outside reflects what they are able to fit inside. They might not have been able to fit the appropriate circuits in a manner that would work better.
I actually prefer the flash to be further away from the lens.
If it doubles for video recording, it makes sense. You're pointing the mic in the same direction as the camera. Otherwise you're recording video in one direction, but recording audio from another direction.
Treefingers
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What makes this look kinda weird to me is how close the camera lens is to the stripe edge.
NYR
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Nah....they will be black, white, and so far the rumour is the back, at the very least, will be available in 2 more colours. Don't know if that means 2 more front colours as well. I would assume it would, but Apple has had trouble with colours before.
If they are, that would be the cherry on top of this entire pos. But no, probably not.
That's the thing though, won't this severely effect the shadowing effect in flash photos even more-so than it used to? Just seems so dumb, as a placement. But yeah, a second mic makes sense (esp. for vid rec).
Lord Error
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The bezel could be thinner simply by the virtue of eliminating that black border part around the screen itself - true. Also, that picture that shows black front looks distorted and and photoshopped, so who knows.
I'll say though, the aluminum back of the iPad feels positively cheap compared to shiny black glass back of iPhone 4. I hope this new iPhone has aluminum plate behind the glass that covers the whole back.
Could have gone back to curved plastic of iPhone 3GS, and/or be made thicker than iPhone 4/4S... In the end, it's thinner it will feel better when it's in your pocket, and you don't look at the back side almost ever really.
I'll say though, the aluminum back of the iPad feels positively cheap compared to shiny black glass back of iPhone 4. I hope this new iPhone has aluminum plate behind the glass that covers the whole back.
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