Photos of alleged fully-assembled next-gen iPhone surface - Page 5

 

I was gonna say the same thing. The reflection of the photographer's… the heck is that thing called again? Look at the struts; their reflection is curved.

I don't think I would like a rounded back like that as I tend to set my phone on the desk quite often and that design appears that it would be wobbly and unstable in that situation,

The fact that certain people can look at the iPhone 4/4S and that mockup and consider them exactly the same pretty much tells you everything you need to know about how they see the world aesthetically. It's a condition I'm now calling iProsopagnosia.

 

It's a shame some of the old guard on here feel the need to resort to simple insults when people don't agree with their perceived wisdom. 

 

It's the same lack of imagination that many people are accusing Apple of with this proposed new iPhone so in that sense you're well suited.

 

"He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young."

How to quadruple page view traffic: take existing iPhone rumors, add renderings of the same, and watch the clicks roll in.

Oh Please... Not a single person posted one line about the two being "exactly the same" so take your overblown lies elsewhere and stop trolling.

Actually Shaun... It's just pathetic that he's allowed to behave so ridiculously/disruptively, especially given that he's anything but 'wise'.


Anyway... The rendering I posted would be a very nice evolution of the currnet iPhone 4/4S design themes.

Ironical - of the nature of irony. Not sure the post I quoted is anything but a Poe and certainly lacking the introspection to see irony in his/her/its own posts.

Sorry if I hurt you! I mean it's your right to like it. It's just a fan rendering after all. Still it looks plasticky compared to the iPhone 4. And the metal ridge of the iPhone 4 isn't shiny so it gives equilibrium to the whole imo. Now that I think of it, 3G/GS had a shiny rim, but it somehow looked good on them. I'm just trying to understand why I don't like those renders here! Lol

With all this talking about the next iPhone, I want one!! Even if it doesn't look like that! :P

Get me a new user interface! 

 

Screen size, this chip, that chip, blah blah blah...

 

I want a user interface that sets every phone maker back another 3 years as Apple did when they introduced the original iPhone. 

 

These icons in rows... simply boring at this point. Now you're going to give me a bigger screen so I can fit more grid style icons on one page? 

 

Give me widgets! Stop making me double click the damn home button to switch apps. Better yet, hold my finger on an app to close them out one by one.

 

I still say Palm's version of multitasking (although maybe not the best of battery life) was the best example of multitasking and closing apps.

 

And now that we are on the topic of battery life, holy hell my 4S battery sucks. Have had it switched out twice now from my local Apple store. 

 

That thing does not hold a charge well.

 

User interface and battery life. Two unbelievably simple tasks for a company like Apple to tackle. If we don't see something in iOS 7, I truly (and this is very hard to say due to the fact that my life is 110 % invested in the Apple Ecosystem) am going to have to look at a different brand. 

 

 

I am confused, why would Apple dramatically alter something selling spectacularly well? Apple is refining and improving an already exceptional product. Most of the improvements will take the form of software. There is also unseen improvements, such as antenna upgrades.  I also am confused as to how Apple's competitors are advancing the state of mobile technology. What is Samsung doing so spectacular other than increasing the screen size and borrowing from Microsoft and adding a stylus. 

Antenna upgrades is hardly something that most people will care about.

@TheKid2020
Yes, I too think that Palm OS had a great intuitive and visually coherent way to treat multitasking.

That's the thing, he doesn't see anything past some superficial modification. If he can't see it then it doesn't exist so in his mind he doesn't think the iPhone 4S is any different than the iPhone 4 simply because they look the same to him. If you are an OEM struggling to turn a profit and have no history of satisfied customers I can see why one might try to make a flash device to set themselves apart from all other vendors, especially if you use the same OS as everyone else, but sophisticated buyers who care about usability and functionality aren't moved by useless flare or CGI-heavy ads when they make a purchase. Regardless of what Apple brings out we can sure that there will be a mountain of changes because they have done so with every previous iPhone release before it.

He doesn't care about the antenna, except to say how Apple completely failed by making it external despite still use the same external antenna almost 2.5 years later. he doesn't care about the massive improvements to the RAM performance, he'll just say that high-end Android phones have more RAM without acknowledging that OS and apps and need more to do basic functions. The list goes on. The devil is in the details and that's someone Apple has a history of focusing on when making a quality product. There is a reason their products have such an uncommonly high after market value.

 

 

The size is a real problem.  The iPhone is the right size for people's pockets, anything bigger is not going to be comfortable in the pocket.

 

The screen too - Apple chose the 3.5 inch screen for very good and very solid reasons.  this new "widescreen" design won't allow one-handed operation.  Widescreen is good for only one thing, and a smartphone screen ain't it.

 

If you think the Porsche is sub-zero then you're either seriously deluded or having a mid life crisis. Based on your recent comments I suspect the later. As for the Mini you have no idea what's cool and you never will.

 

Go put your corduroys on grandad and go for a spin in your Porsche. 

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One doesn't need a original photo, photohop can create a photo out of nothing.

This is like half a centimeter taller than an iPhone.

Happy 1000th post Shaun!!

So you are saying they created this out of nothing? Good drawing skills!

Sorry for double post....

How is a new user interface going to increase the usability? That is an honest question because if you look at OS X, how much has the user interface changed since 10.0? That was over a decade and the UI is basically the same.

 

The iPhone was revolutionary because it distilled down how the UI should work on a screen that size. Windows is trying something new but it doesn't seem any better, in fact worse by most reviews. Sometimes there just isn't a better solution. Look at autos: they haven't changed the basic layout of the shifter steering wheel and pedals in almost a 100 years. How well do you think a car would sell if the steering wheel was replace by levers like a bull dozer and the throttle was a button on the dash. Instead of using the gear selector you had to press the area that is now the horn. Well it wouldn't be too popular as you can imagine. Apple is making well reasoned incremental changes that make sense. Revamping the entire OS just to say it is new has never been their style.

edit: What muppetry said.
Edited by SolipsismX - 7/29/12 at 7:50pm

Well hang on - it was you that brought up the cool wall as evidence, and Soli is correct - Top Gear rated the 911 GT3 as sub-zero.

 

Maybe you should get a job at Apple design. Seems like they could do with some fresh ideas.

 

I much prefer the way the iPhone 3GS sits in the hand than the iPhone 4. It's more comfortable to hold with the curved back.

 

I don't have a problem with plastic - it's light, strong, very durable and doesn't break if you drop it.

i also don't recall any other phone before the iPhone that make the phone just another app. There are no dedicated receive and hang up buttons on the HW. It's was just one of 16(?) apps. That was a radical change in many ways.

Drawing a phone is much easier than drawing a girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuCHPAmAfIQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

 

You do know the cool wall is a subjective thing don't you not a statement of fact. Just coz Clarkson says it's cool doesn't make it true. Most people in the UK thing he's an asshole. It's a great TV show but Clarkson is still an asshole and he's not the final word on what's cool.

That's very impressive.

Where I agree with you regarding OS X not changing, although it has slightly over the years. You're going to tell me there isn't something better for their multitasking feature? I'm not saying to completely ditch the grid style. However, you also can't tell me folders and gridded icons are something you aren't tired of seeing. Holding down your finger and having to hit the X every time you want to close an app? We have seen better implications of such tasks, so why not implement it? Or simply give it as an option for people who prefer the older style. Your argument about steering a car is a little far fetched. Although I understand your argument. However, cars will come out with different steering wheels, different controls on their steering wheels. You have the option of the sifter on the steering column or the center console (don't know the make, but now their is a dial to switch gears).

 

Not to jump products, but you cannot sit there and tell me they can't find a better way to utilize the screen real-estate on the iPad. There has got to be a better UI somewhere in their labs. Take the OS X dock and slap it at the bottom (or wherever you'd want it) on the iPad. Make it so when I run my finger across it the apps are magnified. Something as simple as that would make people drool and wet their pants. 

 

I'm simply saying, it has been 5 years going on 6. Let see what Apple can really do. We all know their hardware is top notch and no one can compete. Make using my phone exciting again, please. 

 

They have gone through several refinement phases. The phone just gets more perfect with each revision. Let Samsung actually come up with something completely different. These look like a work of mature refined art.

But you brought it up. No one else but you.

As if that drawing would pass close examination... Fake 3D I could believe, a drawing no. Sorry but you overestimate what PS can do, or maybe you're using CS11 or whatever. I don't need to lose time searching for videos to show your desperate attempt at trying to win. You win, happy? These images were made with PS from scratch, by one monkey. A daltonian monkey. That's what I believe.

Cool. Thanks!

 

Blimey I missed that thanks. Sugar, I wanted it to be something profound rather than prosaic lol.

May I ask what a daltonian monkey is?

How is that better? So I have an empty desktop with a wallpaper to stare at but now all my apps that used to fill up a screen are all now squished into a row at the bottom or do I now have 6x as many pages of a single row at the bottom. Double-tap the home button to bring up Fast App Switcher and tell me if truly want to choose apps by sliding a single ribbon of apps back and forth. I certainly don't.

Lets give Apple the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully Tim Cook realizes that this Iphone5 is going to be the most important thing Apple ever put out. I think we are all going to be positively surprised. Right Tim???

I wasn't trying to win anything nor was I claiming that's how it was done. Was just pointing out what the right person can do with photoshop. Images of a current iphone can easily be changed.

What else but a monkey from dalton? sheesh. Lol. I have no clue either

Don't you already have apps at the bottom of your iOS device? I'm simply talking about a UI change as little as the dock. Obviously you're not going to have 6x the pages of just apps at the bottom. I'm the one advocating about removing or improving the Fast App Switcher, you're the one making assumptions on a comment regarding a UI change. Calm yourself. 

So - maybe we misunderstood your post, that looked like it was invoking Top Gear in support of your opinion. Anyway, just because you say it's uncool doesn't make it true. Most people on this forum think that you're an, er, not an ostrich, obviously.

 

Maybe we should demand a new design for forks and spoons too. The designs is very stale and the cullery people just have dropped the ball with innovation. /s

A decent device is going to do that every year about this time in the iPhone refresh. cycle. It doesn't matter, because even with fewer unit sales (which are still higher than any competing single model) Apple takes most of the market profits.