From a design standpoint, and unless Apple has run the most successful hoax ever, I feel like Sir Jonathan has succumbed to peer pressure with this upcoming iPhone. It has everything the competition has and it feels like any innovation has to come from Scott Forstall's team. Apple doesn't feel like a market leader anymore...
Blah blah blah, stale bread, cheese, and whine. You want to buy a new phone with a new design every three months, buy Android. You'll actually get software updates that way.
That and the fact that 4G LTE is only in its infancy doesn't make this phone upgrade worthy. Come and see me when the iPhone 6 or 6S is released...
This is the reason I'm waiting another year or my contract to officially end. I have LTE on my iPad but a good 75% of the time it isn't available. And I'm in a major city (Los Angeles). I expect that went we are in the open desert filming. But in LA proper, wtf?
I don't have an iPhone this cycle, but I can keep my Galaxy Nexus -- with a much bigger screen (the main reason I switched away from Apple), although almost no bezel -- in most of my shirt pockets. I mainly do so when driving or walking, because it's easier to feel the vibrating ringer and easier to get at the phone if I do need to answer.
Now if only my iPad would fit into some piece of clothing...someday Apple will make them collapsible!
I put my iPhone in my shirt pocket every single day, never had a problem fitting it in.
I tried that a few times - but its the best way of dropping your iPhone... tie shoe laces, pick up car keys you just dropped, scratch anywhere below the knee, plug something into a wall socket, etc etc. Unless of course you have a nifty little Velcro case for your iPhone (please tell me you don't).
The two tone design matches the front, which is two tOned by the screen, which when off, is a different color than the top and bottom. That makes good design coherence IMHO.
The two tone design matches the front, which is two tOned by the screen, which when off, is a different color than the top and bottom. That makes good design coherence IMHO.
Nope they don't match at least in dimensions. But if the screen matched it it would have been a perfect phone with a perfect symmetry.
Well, I am I talking about bezels again, shutting up.
Sadly, I will not be joining the iPhone 5 party. I'm giving the Windows 8 / Windows Phone 8 ecosystem a try for the next 24 months. Everything including my email and cloud services are going to be owned by Microsoft. Should be an interesting experiment...
Sadly, I will not be joining the iPhone 5 party. I'm giving the Windows 8 / Windows Phone 8 ecosystem a try for the next 24 months. Everything including my email and cloud services are going to be owned by Microsoft. Should be an interesting experiment...
I have been thinking about this a bit since the new iPad was announced as "the new iPad" instead of the "iPad 3".
Apple, obviously, made an overt effort to remove the generational number from the iPad... similar to the way Apple names other products -- it's an iMac 27" not an iMac 27" 2 (or 2012), and a MacBook Air...
Why would they do that?
I can think of several reasons:
delink the device from a presumed [annual] release cycle
allow [more] configuration/bundling options within the device
delink the device from major technology availability
allow intermediate upgrades
allow more flexibility in manufacturing, distribution and pricing
be more aggressive competitively
You can probably think of a few other reasons.
It will be interesting if the Wednesday announcement includes the "the new iPhone" or the "iPhone 5" (6, or whatever).
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Originally Posted by saarek
I put my iPhone in my shirt pocket every single day, never had a problem fitting it in.
Not until iPhone-5, unless a pocket is deep you won't be able to fit it without top (or bottom) side being exposed.
Originally Posted by ombra2105
From a design standpoint, and unless Apple has run the most successful hoax ever, I feel like Sir Jonathan has succumbed to peer pressure with this upcoming iPhone. It has everything the competition has and it feels like any innovation has to come from Scott Forstall's team. Apple doesn't feel like a market leader anymore...
Blah blah blah, stale bread, cheese, and whine. You want to buy a new phone with a new design every three months, buy Android. You'll actually get software updates that way.
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Originally Posted by Gazoobee
In regards the bezel and the Home button you will be waiting for many many many years (it won't happen).
Also ... who puts their iPhone in their shirt pocket? WTF?
The same ones that used to put their graphing calculators (and before that, slide rules) there?
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Originally Posted by Gazoobee
In regards the bezel and the Home button you will be waiting for many many many years (it won't happen).
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Originally Posted by ClemyNX
Yeah, he can wait for that, imo bezel might get slimmer on the sides, but the home button will never disappear.
I believe that the next iPhone redesign will loose the Home button as we know it.
Apple simply won't have a choice. It is really sad that it has not happened now simultaneously with screen size update.
This is the reason I'm waiting another year or my contract to officially end. I have LTE on my iPad but a good 75% of the time it isn't available. And I'm in a major city (Los Angeles). I expect that went we are in the open desert filming. But in LA proper, wtf?
I don't have an iPhone this cycle, but I can keep my Galaxy Nexus -- with a much bigger screen (the main reason I switched away from Apple), although almost no bezel -- in most of my shirt pockets. I mainly do so when driving or walking, because it's easier to feel the vibrating ringer and easier to get at the phone if I do need to answer.
Now if only my iPad would fit into some piece of clothing...someday Apple will make them collapsible!
Originally Posted by jason98
I believe that the next iPhone redesign will loose the Home button as we know it. Apple simply won't have a choice.
Complete nonsense.
It is really sad that it has not happened now simultaneously with screen size update.
It's really sad that you keep repeating this terrible idea despite having been proven wrong.
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Originally Posted by saarek
I put my iPhone in my shirt pocket every single day, never had a problem fitting it in.
I tried that a few times - but its the best way of dropping your iPhone... tie shoe laces, pick up car keys you just dropped, scratch anywhere below the knee, plug something into a wall socket, etc etc. Unless of course you have a nifty little Velcro case for your iPhone (please tell me you don't).
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Complete nonsense.
It's really sad that you keep repeating this terrible idea despite having been proven wrong.
Ok, I am going to shut up on this topic till two year later
Originally Posted by jason98
Ok, I am going to shut up on this topic till two year later
Or at least until we start seeing pictures for the next one.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
It's really sad that you keep repeating this terrible idea despite having been proven wrong.
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Originally Posted by Shogun
The two tone design matches the front, which is two tOned by the screen, which when off, is a different color than the top and bottom. That makes good design coherence IMHO.
Nope they don't match at least in dimensions. But if the screen matched it it would have been a perfect phone with a perfect symmetry.
Well, I am I talking about bezels again, shutting up.
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Originally Posted by Waverunnr
Sadly, I will not be joining the iPhone 5 party. I'm giving the Windows 8 / Windows Phone 8 ecosystem a try for the next 24 months. Everything including my email and cloud services are going to be owned by Microsoft. Should be an interesting experiment...
RIP
I have been thinking about this a bit since the new iPad was announced as "the new iPad" instead of the "iPad 3".
Apple, obviously, made an overt effort to remove the generational number from the iPad... similar to the way Apple names other products -- it's an iMac 27" not an iMac 27" 2 (or 2012), and a MacBook Air...
Why would they do that?
I can think of several reasons:
delink the device from a presumed [annual] release cycle
allow [more] configuration/bundling options within the device
delink the device from major technology availability
allow intermediate upgrades
allow more flexibility in manufacturing, distribution and pricing
be more aggressive competitively
You can probably think of a few other reasons.
It will be interesting if the Wednesday announcement includes the "the new iPhone" or the "iPhone 5" (6, or whatever).
Originally Posted by mstone
The idea, which you apparently don't know, is that the top and bottom bezels of the iPhone can be removed entirely, as can the Home Button.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Complete nonsense.
Where have we heard this before? Oh ya... about being named the iPhone 5.
Originally Posted by Andysol
Where have we heard this before? Oh ya... about being named the iPhone 5.
I like how you're all pretending we know the name. I like it; it's delusion at its finest.