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Apple To Launch Three New iPhone Models Next Month, Report Says (bloomberg.com)
Next month, Apple plans to introduce three new phones in September -- an updated iPhone X, a bigger phone and a successor to the iPhone 8 with the iPhone X design, Bloomberg reports. The updated iPhone X could be considered as an "S upgrade" with a better system-on-a-chip and better cameras. The phone itself could look exactly the same as the iPhone X you can buy today. From the report: There'll be a new high-end iPhone, internally dubbed D33, with a display that measures about 6.5-inch diagonally, according to the people familiar with the matter. That would make it the largest iPhone by far and one of the biggest mainstream phones on the market. It will continue to have a glass back with stainless steel edges and dual cameras on the back. The big difference on the software side will be the ability to view content side-by-side in apps like Mail and Calendar. It will be Apple's second phone with a crisper organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, screen.
[...] Apple also plans an upgrade to the current iPhone X with a 5.8-inch OLED screen, which is internally dubbed D32, the people said. The main changes to the new OLED iPhones will be to processing speed and the camera, according to the people familiar with the devices. [...] Perhaps the most significant phone will be a new, cheaper device destined to replace the iPhone 8. Codenamed N84, it will look like the iPhone X, but include a larger near 6.1-inch screen, come in multiple colors, and sport aluminum edges instead of the iPhone X's stainless steel casing. It will also have a cheaper LCD screen instead of an OLED panel to keep costs down. The cheaper version's aluminum edges won't necessarily be the same color as the colored glass back, simplifying production, one person familiar with the matter said.
[...] Apple also plans an upgrade to the current iPhone X with a 5.8-inch OLED screen, which is internally dubbed D32, the people said. The main changes to the new OLED iPhones will be to processing speed and the camera, according to the people familiar with the devices. [...] Perhaps the most significant phone will be a new, cheaper device destined to replace the iPhone 8. Codenamed N84, it will look like the iPhone X, but include a larger near 6.1-inch screen, come in multiple colors, and sport aluminum edges instead of the iPhone X's stainless steel casing. It will also have a cheaper LCD screen instead of an OLED panel to keep costs down. The cheaper version's aluminum edges won't necessarily be the same color as the colored glass back, simplifying production, one person familiar with the matter said.
I heard in addition to no headphone jack and no home button they have removed the microphone and speaker as well. You just have to drive to a cell phone tower and yell at it...
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my favourite thing is accidentally sliding my finger off the delete key and muting my laptop speaker
did that this morning, again, during a conference call and spent 5 minutes wondering if the line had dropped because i couldnt hear anything
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When what we really want is an upgrade to the SE. Small, inexpensive, to handle the basics of smartphone life, and that's it.
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Well, you can toggle it to show function keys by default.
Then you'll just have your whole screen slide over when you accidentally hit the picture of a key over delete.
WTF ever happened to Apple's human interface guidelines? Consistency and sanity in a user interface (ie, don't steal focus from the user) was genius.
I just upgraded to the SE from the 6, I wanted to return to a more convenient size. I upgraded now in case the SE got dropped in the upcoming refresh.
Honestly I wish they'd just go USB-C since the lightning cable provides zero real benefit to me as a user other than being better than micro-USB (which sucks).
It wasn't until fairly recently that USB-C supported alternate modes for audio and/or video. Until that was added to the spec such devices would need an external USB adapter, which added cost and complexity. Apple brought out Lightning in 2012, 2 years before USB-C was introduced, and it supported audio and video modes from the start. Remembering this history explains why Apple adopted the Lightning port to begin with. Keeping the port allows Apple to differentiate their devices from others, such as avoiding fried phones from out of spec cables in the early days of USB-C (and still lingers on for those that buy cheap).
I expect Apple to stick with Lightning until they come up with something that's beyond USB-C. USB-C is great, and I like it a lot, but devices are already hitting limits on speed and power. Apple is no doubt working on a new Thunderbolt update that will require a connector other than USB-C to bring faster speeds and more power. I'm guessing Apple will introduce this new Thunderbolt connector and have it as a common port on phones, tablets, and laptops. Desktops will no doubt adopt it as well but also have some "legacy" USB-C and other ports to go with.
I don't much care if Apple stays with Lightning or adopts USB-C, it's all the same to me. I'm thinking that maybe Apple should have put Lightning ports on the MacBooks to go with the USB-C so that they could share accessories with the iDevices. Then again this might be coming with whatever Thunderbolt 4 works out to be.
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