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Apple's New iPhones Will Come In a Plethora of New Colors, Says Report (9to5mac.com)
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple's new 2018 iPhones will come in a plethora of colors. The 6.5-inch iPhone will be offered in black, white, and a (new) gold, while the entry-level 6.1-inch LCD iPhone will debut in "grey, white, blue, red and orange." 9to5Mac reports: That's a potential five new colors for the LCD model. It is very possible that when Kuo says "grey" and "white" he is referring to the Space Grey and Silver finishes as seen on the current iPhone X. We've mocked up the new finishes by tinting an iPhone X, but note the 6.1-inch LCD iPhone is not expected to have a dual-camera system. However, that still means Apple is looking to introduce four new options. It seems like the higher end models will add gold to the lineup...
The ~$700 6.1-inch LCD 2018 iPhone (which will mostly resemble an iPhone X's design from the front) will have a larger lineup including blue, red and orange. This harkens back to the iPhone 5c era when Apple rolled out a cheaper iPhone sibling in colorful chassis. We have heard some mumblings prior to today's report about Apple expanding the color options for the cheaper phone, but this is the first time someone reputable has reported specifics. It's not clear if the "red" color means PRODUCT(RED)... Kuo also says that the 6.5-inch OLED iPhone Model should be priced around $1,000 like the current iPhone X, and will feature dual SIM capabilities. Meanwhile, the 6.1-inch LCD iPhone X style device should retail for around $700. The other iPhone expected to be released later this year will be a spec-bump upgrade to the 5.8-inch iPhone X currently available.
In other Apple-related news, Intel will reportedly not provide the 5G modems for Apple's 2020 mobile devices.
The ~$700 6.1-inch LCD 2018 iPhone (which will mostly resemble an iPhone X's design from the front) will have a larger lineup including blue, red and orange. This harkens back to the iPhone 5c era when Apple rolled out a cheaper iPhone sibling in colorful chassis. We have heard some mumblings prior to today's report about Apple expanding the color options for the cheaper phone, but this is the first time someone reputable has reported specifics. It's not clear if the "red" color means PRODUCT(RED)... Kuo also says that the 6.5-inch OLED iPhone Model should be priced around $1,000 like the current iPhone X, and will feature dual SIM capabilities. Meanwhile, the 6.1-inch LCD iPhone X style device should retail for around $700. The other iPhone expected to be released later this year will be a spec-bump upgrade to the 5.8-inch iPhone X currently available.
In other Apple-related news, Intel will reportedly not provide the 5G modems for Apple's 2020 mobile devices.
Seems that the Reality Distortion Field will soon be redefining 'plethora'.
This is so innovative, so leading edge.
Excitement is back in the phone industry, for sure!
... paint it.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Inevitable, from the Kardashian's to the color of your phone. This is how we've become as a culture.
I think this is a new low for Slashdot. How bad into minutiae of rumours for a crap phone can you get? The only site this oh-so-vital piece of news could fit on would be fashion for hipsters.
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that phones nearing that $1k price tag don't seem to sell so well.
( No matter what lovely colors it comes in )
The $700 variant will probably fare much better.
However, is it just me or does no one really give a damn about the " new " iPhones / Androids that come out every year with not a whole lot of anything to get excited about ?
Roll one out with a headphone jack, removable battery, the basic OS without all the GD bloatware, a physical switch that disables GPS, the MIC and Cameras and you might pique my interest. Selling me the same old sh*t with a colorful new paintjob just doesn't really do it for me I'm afraid.
Is this simply so that people use their iPhones without protective cases to show it off, and then are foreced to repair/replace more frequently when they drop them?
That doesn't bode well for the price tag of the rumoured low-cost MacBook Air replacement.
Add the exchange rate on top of that and I bet the new "budget" MacBook is going to cost nearly 1500 Canadian dollars.
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What else to add? Is /. now "News for Fashionistas? Does a chipset setting determine the colour? Because if it doesn't, this is garbage news.
...first thing most people do is slap a case on them so you can barely see what color they are. It's not like these are iMacs, y'know.
for a camera company. Addicted consumers always buy extra colors.
Every shop has to buy a set of color iPhone in packs? Work hard to sell the colors nobody wants to buy?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
what the current large players are asking for them. In a few years when desktop and laptop sales are truly tanking because everyone has flocked to the mobile phone that does everything but clean you arse, they will have a captive audience to continue to tick up the prices yearly, and the good little boys and girls will open up their wallets and give Uncle Apple and Uncle Samsung all their money for a piece of technology that doesn't do too much more than the day the first one came on the scene 11 years ago. A fool and his money are soon parted...
Any other color is just $995.00 more.
We need to bring back the iMac G3 colors. Also, have the phone be round like the puck mouse.
Quite right. The best Macs I ever had was the iMac G3 in grey and the toilet seat iBook, both running 9.2
...when it will likely just go in a case anyway?
We can put a fold out handle on the back of the phone!
Really? You mean that my phone, which I have to keep in a protective case which will hide th color, can be orange?!?! Z0mg!!
Story at 11....
I want a phone that's not made in China.
And if it's made in the US, that's even better.
It seems to me that the mobile phone fad is rapidly dying. In the past, people felt they had to pay more than $1,000 for every new iPhone. For those who lacked confidence in themselves, a new iPhone was a status symbol.
Apple CEO Tim Cook does not have nearly the ability of Steve Jobs to find good new features, get them implemented, and communicate them clearly.
iPhones have batteries that can't be easily replaced. The batteries lose capacity slowly, making the phone operate slowly, and go bad within approximately 4 years. Apparently Apple wants that because people buy new phones.
Slowly people without much technical knowledge are starting to understand some of the underlying issues, and react sensibly. Before it was easier to abuse them.
Google is extremely abusive, in my opinion. Google's Android operating system doesn't allow updating to new versions. Again, that is an extremely destructive way of manipulating people to buy new phones.
It'll be all covered up by cases anyway
and do they come with rounded corners?
If they don't fix the battery drain problem (which AFAIK they have not actually acknowledged as a "problem" and it absolutely most definitely is) I will be dumping iPhone for sure. Bring on Android.
GO APPLE!!! I think I heard Steve turn in his grave....
The color of the buyers won't change, they'll still only come in a rich white.
How 'bout Apple make the external iPhone casing from recycled plastic water bottles, make the plastic colored, like the iMacs from the 1990s, and sell them in mini-marts for $10 each?
Some colors are more equal than others.
On if the phone shell can be translucent too.
That is the big innovation from Apple?
My heavens, the fanboys are going to be wetting themselves over this
wot? I've updated the Android version in my moto X pure; it's what the manufacturer allows or not
Zune brown.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Google's Android operating system doesn't allow updating to new versions. Again, that is an extremely destructive way of manipulating people to buy new phones.
Google is trying to fix this situation with Project Treble.
tl;dr, Android's architecture is more abstracted now, so new versions of the system will remain compatible with old drivers. Which makes much easier to develop updates.
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Phone color options making headlines? That is stupid
They won't be able to control themselves and have to get one of each color to have a phone that matches their outfit on the day. Like those people who buy one of every single color of a shoe like converse chucks and have a different shoe for each outfit.
Wow, consumer electronics available in a variety of different colors . Only to be concealed with ugly rubber protective cases that also come in a variety of garish colors. Apples ability to push the boundaries never ceases to amaze me.
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Surely we can go lower!
...we'll be removed several useful features you currently rely upon to accommodate this groundbreaking premise.
We need to bring back the iMac G3 colors. Also, have the phone be round like the puck mouse.
And also have no buttons!
It _was_ a new low, but now the lead story is that microsoft discovered dark colors.
I guess that makes Microsoft into DC versus Apple's Marvel...
No words.
You mean I can now get an iPhone in any color I want? What a great day! I can't wait! Wowzers! Neato!
I going to cr--m in my jeans!
In the words of Dana Carvey, NOT! (in the voice of Borat!)
that phones nearing that $1k price tag don't seem to sell so well.
Really? It's been Apple's best selling device every single week last quarter. To be clear they sold 52.2 MILLION phones and the iPhone X was the best seller among those.
If that's your idea of "not selling well" give me some of that kind of "failure"...
However, is it just me or does no one really give a damn about the " new " iPhones / Androids that come out every year with not a whole lot of anything to get excited about ?
It's just you. Apple literally sells tens of millions of them and Android devices collectively sell even more units so obviously people give a damn. If it's not your particular brand of vodka I don't have any quarrel with you on that but don't pretend no one cares about the smartphone upgrades.
or floppy drive!
Why not? That's actually a good idea.
Then again it doesn't really matter what color the phone is when you'll just be slapping a case on it anyway.
and its products, it's so sad to /. turned into a platform for ,corporate advertisement
Apple, and its ilk, imho, are just greedy selfish people screwing the planet
1. get masking tape, cover display & button(s) of your old phone (ophone)
2. buy a can of spray paint, colored to yout desire, e.g. matching your Ferrari, favorite food, or morning urine
3. get some old newspaper to cover the ground, go outside ad wait for no winds.
4. feel like an anarchist while spraypainting the ophone
5. donate the remaining 90% full paint can to charity and feel good about it
6. Paint has dried by now, remove tape and feel good about ypur new PaintPhone!
I would care, but I'm not so money-laden that I don't cover my phone in a case anyway. Get me slim, grippy orange case and I'll be happy... but I don't need my phone to be orange if I'm just going to cover it.
because I would hate for someone to tell me they have a Plethora of new colors when they do not know what a Plethora is!
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wot? I've updated the Android version in my moto X pure;
Are you sure? https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
That's all smartphone companies have left. "new" colors, gimmicks in hopes of continuing to push dated phones. What is a smartphone? A rectangular slab of glass, metal and plastic, with a camera, memory, processor. To put lipstick on a pig, they gimmick them up with pop up cameras, multiple cameras and "exciting" colors, in hopes to keep jacking the price up.
I don't need new colors...
I also don't need thinner.
I need:
1. Reliability - Apple does very well with this.
2. Long battery charge - Apple does well with this.
3. Very Long battery life span - So-so.
4. Option to not have it be a phone (e.g., be iPodTouch - not everyone actually needs a phone)
When apple cheaps out on the painting process and all the fanbois phones chip.
A 6.1" screen on the entry level model? But but, how will I use it with one hand??
Ah, but companies are being sure to create phones with no bezel so no case could possibly fit or protect the phone. That way you'll have to replace it more often.
The first thing I did with my iPhone 6 (work provided) was slap an Otterbox Commuter case on it .. rendering it about twice as thick, and considerably more protected. Because since it was expensive, I'd rather keep it intact instead of being fractionally thinner.
For me, I can't even begin to fathom why shaving off another 10th of a millimeter makes the phone better in any way. And every time Apple removes yet another very useful plug, I just roll my eyes. Sorry, no, the headphone is a useful jack, and moving to wireless only was idiotic.
Most Android is shit because it's been so heavily screwed up but the OEM that non only will you never see updates, but you're now locked into yet another company's ecosystem (fuck you, Samsung).
So, Android is shit, Microsoft is shit, and Apple is stagnating and removing useful stuff in an attempt to make it shit.
We've pretty much reached "peak phone". I know I sure as fuck have.
But, apparently the tech industry is so fixated on this shit that five colors is now a 'plethora' ... and they're all breathless and fawning over it. And yet, I don't see an article about new and useful features. Just that you can now get it a few more colors.
yes I'm quite sure of the version of Android running. your link is about false patch reporting which is another issue
- if you're putting it in a case?
News to me.
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So iPhone X owners are getting conned out of their money by paying $1K for a "silly phone"--but you owned a >$50K BMW M3? What kind of douchey fucking moron drives around in an expensive BMW with expensive aftermarket mods and then criticizes people for what phone they bought?
I don't own a car at all. I guess I could call you a sheeple who was conned out of their money so you could drive around in a status symbol--but I won't because everyone spends money on luxury items, and people value those items very differently.
Grow up.
so I guess that makes me holier than you? So if I spend that $1K I saved on not buying the world's shittiest car--would that make us even?