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Samsung: Please hire this designer; He/She is brilliant! 

superkloton said:

Rayz2016 said:

Mmm. I would still say that thing adds bulk. 

Well the article says "flush with the walls" so the picture might not show the actual product since that is clearly not in-wall but very bulky indeed. Wouldn’t wanna have that in my home.

It clearly says the second picture is of their older model. The new one mounts inside the wall and is flush.

An unanswered question is: Does Apple slow down older phones regardless of the wear level of the battery in that phone? To add a data point, I did a test on my iPhone 6s. The battery shows 18% wear level, so it is marginal, but Apple would consider it a pass. When the phone had about 75% battery charge, I checked the CPU clock and it was at approx. 1800 MHz. I ran Geekbench 4 and I got a single core result of 2532. All as expected. A few minutes later the battery charge dropped to 63%. So, I checked the CPU clock: it dropped to 911MHz. I re-ran Geekbench and got a single-core score of 1452. So, I can only conclude that Apple may be throttling the speed based on the remaining charge of older phones regardless of the wear level of the battery. I would be curious to compare these results with someone who had installed a brand new battery in their older phone. Is it the wear level or simply the remaining charge that triggers the throttling? If it is the latter, then why are they throttling only older phones and not the new ones? That becomes supportive of the conspiracy theory that they slow down older phones to cajole us to upgrade. A counter point might be that older batteries at the same remaining charge as new batteries output less power and thus trigger the throttling. 

Too many panic attacks! If this is true, give Apple the benefit of the doubt that they will implement this very well and have thought it through. In addition, they might surprise you in terms of new hardware-based innovation that makes running iOS apps on a laptop intuitive and fun. Apple always does this where they try something very timidly (Touch Bar) and learn from it for the 'real thing'. For example, just like they got rid of the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 so that it is a non-issue on the real thing (iPhone 8 and X), they may be on their way to get rid of the mouse, the keyboard, and the trackpad and the mouse pointer on the screen! Imagine your whole keyboard and trackpad area as one large multi-touch trackpad and you interact with it using one, two, or more "fingers" that you see representations of on the screen (to replace the mouse pointer). You can force-touch, zoom, etc etc.. but not smudge the screen and obscure the content and get gorilla arms. A virtual keyboard is available at any time for typing as usual with force-touch feedback. The line is blurred, but the solution is not watered down. Instead, it is a new innovative human-computer interaction paradigm. And the software is now a non-issue as it runs on iOS and macOS with exactly the same input paradigm.

anton zuykov said:

ericthehalfbee said:

Looks like two iPhones in picture.

And the one on the right is a ceramic one.

It is a left thumb holding a bezel-less iPhone