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Apple's Next Year iPhone Won't Have the Home Button: NYTimes
The reviews for the Apple's new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are live today. The New York Times, for instance, has given the smartphone a fairly positive review. However, in the story, the reporter says that the company's next flagship iPhone won't have the home button (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; here's an alternate source). Instead, the display will serve the purpose of the home button as well, the report added. From the report:Apple is likely to continue making iPhones without headphone jacks, and next year's iPhone will have a full-screen face with the virtual button built directly into the screen, according to two people at the company who spoke on condition of anonymity because the product details are private.
The iPhone 9 won't have a screen. This will at least double battery life.
Steve Jobs knew the importance of spare organs.
The Galaxy Note 7 tried anti-matter, but that didn't work out so well.
Table-ized A.I.
Well, you could always use a Samsung phone and burn to death instead, but hey, let's bitch about a fucking headphone socket...
Physicists get Hadrons!
I hear reception was explosive! More specifically, they annihilated the competition.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
When you said you wanted a thinner iPhone with better battery life. We listened and got rid of that ancient headphone jack.
When you said you wanted a sleeker iPhone, something that really said 'the future is here', we listened and got rid of the last button on the iPhone.
Now, when you say that the internet, social media and games are too much of a distraction from your life and job and family, we've listened.
Introducing, the iBrick. Sleek styling, not a single button to be found, infinite battery life.
It can't access the Internet.
No social media or games are supported.
It doesn't have a screen.
It won't even make phone calls.
The iBrick. The sexiest hunk of useless plastic you'll ever pay for. Coming this fall starting at $799.99, exclusively available through AT&T.
Yes, we should eliminate all those things which are working great, so there are no ports, because... reasons
He just gave you a reason, smartass: so you can bring the phone underwater. FACT: Most of the Earth is covered by water. This is the main thing holding us back from a BioShock utopia.
That's one particular phone. There are many Samsung phones that aren't a fire hazard as well as many other phones from different manufactures. The headphone jack removal is worth bitching about. Hands down the most disgusting thing Apple has done since the release of the original Mac with it's black and white screen and single button mouse.
They will be called eyePods
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
You can only Retry, Abort, or Ignore.