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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'.
... paint it.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
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.
Culture would includes fads and fashion.
But this is supposed to be a tech news site. Instead we're finding out if a appliance can color coordinate with our shoes.
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"
We need to bring back the iMac G3 colors. Also, have the phone be round like the puck mouse.
It encourages people to NOT use cases, which increases the breakage (and replacement) rate. 3) PROFIT!
We still have to keep track of the others, so we can mock and laugh at them. Soon they will be wanting colour coding for their custom genitals, you know they will, you just absolutely know they will.
Apple we have absolutely nothing to announce, 'FUCK', 'er' colour coded phones, yeah. C'mon Apple where is the resin phone, where the bulk of parts of cast in resin, leaving the front add on panel for a screen and the back panel as battery, user removable and replaceable, the electronics safely locked away behind a solid resin, extremely damage resistant and definitely water proof.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Zune brown.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
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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Oh, so now it's an "appliance"?
It's an iPhone, so yes. Apple is pretty insistent on not giving the user access to anything Turing-complete, thus it merely has a computer inside, no different from that set of computers doing your car's injection or setting rotation speed of your washing machine.
Tell me when I can install Perl and PostgreSQL and interact with them. Resources-wise, anything bigger than an Arduino can do so (there's a large gap between microcontrollers and stuff meant for general-purpose operating systems, the latter starting at 256-512MB ram). So all that power means nothing if you can't actually use it.
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I'm talking about end user, not about a developer with a purchased license running some IDE on another machine, not even able to copy that program to a friend.
For me, a computer is something that can run arbitrary computing tasks. It's usually done in some sort of container with parts you don't have access to: on Windows, you can't mess with the system, on an Intel PC running Linux there's some supervising code at ring -17 spying on you, but inside that contained jail you are free to do what you want. User interface might be a touch screen, a ssh login over ethernet, a query dispatcher for a cluster, or perhaps even a deer hide tarpaulin for sending smoke signals, but there is one. One of biggest rules for Apple's App Store is not providing this ability.
For me, a computer is something that lets you do computing. An appliance might have a computer inside but doesn't expose it.
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