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Leaks Reveal New Features In Apple's Next iPhone
Though Apple officially unveils their newest iPhone on Tuesday, information is already leaking on the internet.
- Mashable: "Physically, it's expected to be about the same size as an iPhone 7, but with an edge-to-edge OLED display that's bigger than what is currently on the iPhone 7 Plus. It won't have a home button or Touch ID, and will likely use some kind of facial recognition tech to unlock."
- MacRumors cites a report from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggesting facial recognition may just be one feature of a complex front camera with 3D sensing hardware, including a proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, and a structured light transmitter (using a surface-emitting laser) and receiver.
- CNET: "Irish iPhone programming guru Steve Troughton-Smith now feels sure he has the names of the three phones to be launched by Apple on Tuesday.... they'll (probably) be called the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and -- ta-da -- the iPhone X."
- Troughton-Smith also predicts a 3x screen at 1125x2436 resolution
- Fortune: "Apple's iPhone line is expected to catch up with Android phones in the area of wireless charging this year... just lay the phone down on a compatible charger mat or base or dock, and watch the battery fill up."
- 9to5Mac: "We've found a brand new feature called 'Animoji', which uses the 3D face sensors to create custom 3D animated emoji based on the expressions you make into the camera. Users will be able to make Animoji of unicorns, robots, pigs, pile of poo and many more."
"Users will be able to make Animoji of unicorns, robots, pigs, pile of poo and many more.""
We've hit rock bottom....
Troughton-Smith also predicts a 3x screen at 1125x2436 resolution
What is a "3x screen"? Tried Googling, results unenlightening.
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But the price, the absence of TouchID, and the rumors that they didnâ(TM)t add TouchID because they run out of time, which makes me believe that the usual 1st gen problems will may be worse in this case, made me reconsider and think it may be a good idea to wait for iPhone Xs or whatever the 2nd gen will be called.
Initial rumors were they couldn't get TouchID working without an actual home button, and facial recognition was a fallback. I have a hard time seeing how that won't be a big step backward... so I'll be curious to see the announcement on Tuesday AND how well (or how poorly) it works in the real world.
TouchID works quite well, so the bar is pretty high.
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Well, they will need something to do while they are waiting to 'watch the battery fill up' when on wireless charging, since wireless generally charges at a fraction of the wires charge rates ;) They shouldn't have to watch and wait more than a few hours....
But hey, its a new iPhone! The media just cannot contain their gushing over any tiny change, because it just HAS to be revolutionary.
Still, a whole lot of people will no doubt suddently realise that their year or two old phone, that was working perfectly well last week is suddenly THE thing that is holding them back from climbing mountains on warm spring mornings with perfect model like looks, and rush out and purchase one.
The trouble is Apple over promises so much these days it just ends up disappointing most everyone. Never seen so much planned leaks just to try and spur on interest in what's going to be just another new iPhone. IOS 11 from my perspective having used it for weeks is just a mid level refresh. Probably do more to upset people with changes then any new features it offers.
Great. I am now on android for the rest of my life.
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The problem with the fingerprint sensors on the iPhone is that it's on the home button, or alternatively, that the home/unlock button is in the front. The location on the back, as on Android phones, may seem less natural but is more convenient. Rather than admit their mistake and simply move the sensor to the back, Apple is pouting.
Just look at the list of features on a good Android phone from a year ago and then double the price. Bingo!
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I just shat my pants and came at the same time!! Apple are releasing a phone and it has FEATURES!!!!
Sounds like more Courage . Like an inspiring commercial promoting water proof showing a road racing bicycle rider about to go for a ride in lightning and heavy rain. What was the intended message? If the iPhone 7 survives the wipe out and possible lighting strike and rider still conscious can call for help coz water proof?
There are better use cases for a water proof phone than a dangerous bike ride in lightning and rain. Don't think those customers will long term unless it's from their recovery rooms.
I've always people think of me as a smiling pile of poo, now I can make it really happen!
and compromises had to be made, the iPhone would look like this:
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It seems more and more obvious that the utility value for smartphones generally peaked some time ago - messaging/email, web, photos and apps to some degree anywhere you are seems like the primary utility function of the smartphone.
Yet companies like Apple are on this business treadmill where they think they have to re-invent it every year in order to keep selling phones. They mostly coasted on the fact that the next model improved some aspects -- CPU, storage, photo quality -- some noticeable increment, but they didn't really increase the basic utility value.
It really seems like they've hit the point where not even technical incremental improvement adds very much, and now they're needlessly altering the experience just to sell new phones.
Maybe this works with some segment of the population, but will people generally start rebelling against this? Most of these changes don't seem like a better experience, at best the *same* experience that requires re-learning, at worst a lesser experience.
When they issue a special U2 version of the iPhone, then we'll have hit rock bottom.
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Fucking junkies.
And nothing of value was won...
Wow, with all of those kewl features, will I be able to make a phone call with it?
There is absolutely no spyware on this phone at all. No seriously, fuck off, stop laffing, it's really really true. This phone respects your privacy, it really honestly does.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
"Apple's iPhone line is expected to catch up with Android phones in the area of wireless charging this year... just lay the phone down on a compatible charger mat or base or dock, and watch the battery fill up."
So, exactly what I do already?
How is facial recognition supposed to work without any button?
Is the camera always recording and scanning even when the phone is supposedly off?
The user is the product, the newest feature is more accurate data about their behavior.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
You DO know that you can still buy a "dumb" phone, right? And that they not only work great but have much better battery life and don't break nearly as easily? And are available for under $50?
Better yet, a camera with 3d sensing technology that is always on and watching. That's not taking our invasion of privacy to a whole new level at all.
Everybody is talking about a portable phone yet nobody says anything about making or receiving phone calls.
And by the way, what difference does it make to speculate about features and discuss leaks when everyone could just wait until the announcement in a few days?
It's like trying to guess the the plot twists of an upcoming movie based on a frame-by-frame analysis of the movie trailer.
no data cable, how I upload my 500MB Xcode app on that iPhone ? Wifi? while i'm coding in the plane?
What the AC above just told you. Get a dumb phone. Smaller, cheaper, better battery life, etc.
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A standard handheld computer should compete on a modular approach to features, as a NUMA or BEOWulf cluster doesnt need a camera or a screen on each phone stacked how-many to the ceiling. And some of us have rare peripherals where wouldbe great a modular phone coul swap unneeded hardware for an interface to said homebrew equipment; i have experimental topls still on ps2, rs422, and gpib that are low power as a phone and the added portability leaves only a netbook and bulky travelbatterybank my only option.
or is Apple and the Android Justice League of Super Kwaii Friends just forcibly combining the DMV helpdesk with a cashless ATM and the Alibaba prison commisary vending machine and Labor Ready into one end-all be-all device?
Is the next option a blood and urine testkit,or breath-a-lyzerd? PC Cards for laptops were mimic size to fit with credit cards in a wallet, at this rate shouldnt the handheld portable have modules the size of a Nickel and install space for eight of these options like did a homebrew era ISA Bus motherboard?
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Thats just sad. But i guess if your stupid enough to single source your phone supplier you kinda deserve whatever phone your forced to compromise with.
Is there a noSJW app to make it go away?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
i'd throw in a headphone jack just to fuck with people.
I just paid off the lease balance on my iPhone 6s and cancelled the insurance to free up $30 in my budget. Since I have an older five-line plan at Sprint that cost $10 per month for each additional line, I added a new iPad (5th gen) to replace my five-year-old iPad 2. With a promotional service credit, no service activation fee and a AAA discount, the iPad will cost $30 per month. In short, my monthly bill isn't changing for the next two years.
...and save anywhere from $500 to $800 dollars, depending on features. I suppose businesses users might get something out of high-end phones, but the average consumer doesn't. (For instance, screen resolution/size doesn't really matter to me since I'd only ever watch high quality movies/TV shows at my desktop or on an HDTV, not on a phone.)
Android solved that problem simply and efficiently by putting the sensor on the back, a solution that Apple could have adopted as well.
Apple, for once, wanted to be a bit original and have the fingerprint sensor work on the front, through the screen.
(think all the sci-fi movie where the hero is required to place a hand on the shape drawn on the screen).
Turns out, they didn't manage to find a way to pull this thing while fitting the ever thinner form factor
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What everyone wants is for their phone to be as thin as a credit card and for their batteries to last for seconds, rather than minutes.
The rumor is not that the iPhone will have no cable at all.
You know after the removal of the audio jack, to some past customer, that wouldn't sound that much implausible.
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Also, now that the phone can charge wirelessly, it also will not have any ports whatsover.
So you will HAVE to use Apple's bluetooth headphones to talk to anyone or listen to music.
Because courage.
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So what happens when a cop grabs your phone, and wants in? Does he get to just hold it up to your face to unlock it? If so, this seems like a serious flaw.
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1) Facial recognition to unlock your phone? LOL! What could possibly go wrong. I'd imagine that it will work about as well as Siri (which is to say not very well). Might as well unlock your phone by getting in a argument with Siri and having it analyse that! :)
2) Getting rid of home button. Good idea. Was a point of failure. Also already sort of implemented. Girlfriend broke her home button (probably though continuous usage), but was able to limp by however by adjusting the software to do it VIA the touch screen. Which was a bit of a pain in the ass as it wasn't designed very well, but probably could easily be adjusted to serve just fine. I mean most other phone have gotten rid of their physical buttons awhile ago, probably for the same reason (point of mechanical failure), I mean the last one I had that did I think was my Samsung S3...
My point is: the front of the phone just isn't a good place for the fingerprint sensor to begin with.
On the other hand, Apple was never about what is theoretically "good".
They mostly aim for what seems intuitive to clueless newbies
- The home button is where they put their finger anyway
- Apple logic : let's put the fingerprint sensors there.
- You're removing the home button and creating a "software" one displayed on the bottom of the screen ? :-P )
- Apple logic: Then the bottom of the screen should also be a finger print sensors, because that's where you're sure to find the user's finger
(if he isn't holding the phone "wrong"
- Oops that last one didn't work out, let's quickly scramble to make something, let's re-use that "face recognition" idea thrown by the guys at the R&D lab.
The rest of the planet :
- If somebody is holding their phone in their hand, there's a high chance that they can easily reach the back with a finger.
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Safe to say that it is apparent that the stretches that smartphone mfgrs have reached indicates the beginning of the end of, well, bullshit tweaks for way too much money!
C'mon, folks. WTF?! Are you really ready to go reaching that far for bullshit?!
How about bringing the cost to a reasonable level?!
Dear fellow citizen: Please WAKE THE FUCK UP!
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