It is new iPhone rumor season once again: Following case leaks for Apple’s next-generation iPhone models last week, expected to debut in fall, an image purports to show technical drawings for the iPhone 7 chassis (via NowhereElse.fr).
The images show the back of the phone. At first glance, it’s worth noting that the horizontal antenna lines on the back of the phone are gone completely. There are still lines along the bottom edge of the device, represented by the lighter line following the curve of the body, but the main straight antenna lines seen on iPhone 6s are not present in these drawings. Looking closely, the images also suggest that the camera has changed for the iPhone 7 …
The size of the camera hole is significantly larger than current phones, indicating an upgrade of some kind. The opening also sits closer to the edge of the phone; the rear camera on current iPhones is more inset into the frame.
People may be disappointed at the apparent lack of a dual-camera system as has been previously rumored, but this image shows a 4.7 inch iPhone 7. Rumors have indicated that a dual-camera system will be reserved for the larger 5.5 inch iPhone 7 Plus, potentially exclusive to a variant called ‘iPhone 7 Pro’. Regarding the headphone jack, or lack thereof, this leak is not that helpful. The bottom side of the phone is not explicitly visible, although an opening cannot be seen from the inside of the chassis.
Following this article’s publication, a reader has Photoshopped some mockup images based off of the leak, to give an idea at what the final result will look like if this iPhone 7 rumor turns out to be true. The mockup shows how the antenna redesign leads to a more appealing, minimalist appearance for the back side of the iPhone 7:
According to the source of the leak, the phone chassis is also marginally thinner by comparison to current units, even if that dimension is not visible in the leaked images. As usual, approach these images with skepticism.
However, it is important to remember that very similar shots surfaced this time two years ago, ultimately accurately predicting the design of the then-unreleased iPhone 6. This gives the photos some kind of track record and provenance. In addition, there have already been corroborating rumors about the antenna lines change. Nevertheless, it is amusing to see future iPhone designs appear in renders on old Windows PCs.
This morning, NowhereElse also claimed to have found pictures of the iPhone 7 Plus dual-camera component. However, this image actually originates to a blog post from January and there is no ‘smoking gun’ connection between the component and an Apple product. It is likely the component is destined for another manufacturers’ products.
Although much of the iPhone 7 remains unknown as mere rumors, what is known for sure is that Apple will be holding a media event on the 21st March. We expect a new 4-inch iPhone SE to debut, as well as a new 9.7 inch iPad Pro and more. Read our full roundup here and stay tuned to 9to5Mac for full coverage of the announcements.
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Lack of dual camera on the smaller variant is complete bs. I had a plus for a year and couldn’t wait to change it for a regular 6s.
Customers getting an inferior product just because we don’t want a super sized phone is complete bs
I don’t think the dual camera setup will fit into the smaller iPhone.
Honestly the only thing they need to do is reduce the bezels on the plus pro?, model and make it closer to a 4.7 inch form factor.
Well then Apple shouldn’t do a dual lens camera system at all. it’s like putting a more powerful chip inside the iPhone 6S Plus than in the 6S because the 6S was too small. Fact is that both iPhones are of the same category of iPhone and should be equal when it comes to things other than display size and battery size. Right now Apple is treating the 6S as the iPhone 5C and the 6S Plus as the iPhone 5S, so the 6S is the lesser phone right now (camera stabilisation and ppi of the 6 Plus and 6S Plus).
@applegetridofsimandjack that’s like saying Samsung shouldn’t make the S7, S7 edge, S7 whateverotherversionstheywillmakeinthefuture etc, that there shouldn’t be more than one type of mac, macbook, windows laptop, windows tablet, or any device out there at any one time. What you’re saying is that the market should be extremely limited just to suit your needs.
At the end of the day, if a person wants a feature of one device that isn’t on another, either they wait until it is, or they suck up the design choices of the manufacturer. Same applies with any tech. Do you think every single person loved the design of the 1st gen Samsung Smart TVs or Internet Ready Sony Bravias? No but they bought them anyway because they wanted the features. That’s just how life goes.
@realguruhamu, I agree this is true. But then again samsung tries to put everything that is possible into the smaller phones while apple doesn’t. They try to differenciate the 7 and 7plus even further. And that makes the 7 more like a 7c than a real 7. Apple knows most isheeps won’t complain about it hence they do it. If apple fans would complaim about their decisions to make the 7 extremely inferior to the 7plus then they’d probably overthink their decisions for the 7s and maybe make the 7s plus more like a samsung s7edge which has no bezels. I hope people will complaim but i fear theiy won’t.
If the only difference between a S7 and S7 Edge is screen and battery size then Apple should be able to do the same thing. Even the screen resolution between the 2 are the same. If HTC can stuff a 1080p display in a 4.7″ phone why can’t Apple? Apple needs to stop watering down it’s top selling size. Their basically forcing us into a larger model that cost more money.
does Samsung put inferior screen resolution and inferior cameras between s7 and s7 edge? Nope they dont. They are not creating this weird segmentation that Apple is pushing. There are many like us who prefer the smaller sized phone and I dont get why Apple only thinks about higher ASPs by making these kind of weird segmentations.
Not only did Samsung give the S7 and S7 Edge identical high end hardware, but they also gave the Galaxy S line the same hardware as the freaking Note line! Both have the best displays on the market (no “750p is good enough” BS), both have the best cameras on the market, and they both feature OIS.
Comparing the S7 and S7 Edge to the future iPhone is completely pointless. Apple has also largely kept the hardware the same in the 6 and 6s models, but neither the iPhone 6 family nor the Samsung phones have dual cameras, so it’s a completely irrelevant comparison.
I see absolutely no reason to hold the Plus models back because of physical restraints imposed by a smaller, different, model. In the future when the camera modules are small enough they’d almost certainly find their way to smaller devices, but why should everyone miss out in the mean time?
Having Apple order several million modules for the Plus series devices is probably one of the best ways to encourage manufacturers to put more into R&D and further refine the hardware so it’ll fit into a smaller phone.
It seems absurd that anyone would want everyone to miss out because they have stubbornly ruled out getting a larger phone despite it having functions they’d like to use.
I agree. I feel the iPhone 6 Plus should’ve been exactly the same phone as iPhone 6 beside the display size and battery. Same goes for the S models.
Unless they call the Plus iPhone the ‘Pro’ model. And I feel there shouldn’t be a pro model of iPhone.
Pro iPhone is the stupidest thing ever. If Apple does this it will honestly be among the worst decisions they’ve ever made, and anyone intelligent knows that.
@o0smoothies0o
I am more intelligent than you are and, if Apple were to create, market, and sell a model called iPhone Pro, I would support the decision 100%.
@dcj001 Wow I must be of extremely low intelligence if you’re more intelligent than I am, and consider that to be a good idea.
“Unless they call the Plus iPhone the ‘Pro’ model.”
It’s just a name. Why would extra features be ok for a “Pro” labelled model but not a “Plus” labelled one.
some people just seem to expect the entire world to be crammed into the size of something so tiny. You want a dual camera module while retaining battery life and a HD screen and other features. Tell me, how would you do that? If you had ever looked at the inside of a phone, you’d know why it’s not possible to stick a dual camera module inside a regular sized iphone.
Except that it EASILY is. Hahah. You think they just won’t ever put a dual camera system in the smaller phone? That’s great. You apparently are 100% unaware of how much space the 4.7″ iPhone gets from the removal of the headphone jack. I’ll let you know, the 4.7″ iPhone can get far greater internal space from the removal of the headphone jack than the iPhone Plus can. If you look at the ifixit teardown and assume Apple removes the headphone jack AND changes the Taptic Engine in the 4.7″ to the same design as the Taptic Engine in the 5.5″, they could move the entire Taptic Engine down to the left of the Lightning port and this actually nets nearly 1/2″ of empty space under the battery.
If they used that space for a USEFUL feature as opposed to 2 speakers (which I won’t be buying the phone because of if they wasted the space on that), then they could add numerous things such as: 1/2″ longer battery (which would be an absolutely astonishing capacity increase), or dual camera system, or reduced bezels, or a combination of these features that are a trillion times better than worthless 2 speakers.
This is an interesting year for Apple because we get to truly understand how absolutely moronic they are, dependant on what they use that extremely useful internal space they got from the headphone jack removal on.
I want to end this comment explaining something to you which is that the dual camera system is a component which Apple very likely can’t currently get anywhere near 70+ million of, to use them in every iPhone. In fact, if they idiotically put it in a separate iPhone from the Plus, it shows they couldn’t even get enough for the Plus, and if they do that it will be very embarrassing because if they were intelligent they would wait at the very least until they can put them in all of the Plus models. To split the iPhone further is beyond stupid. They need to simplify many of their product lines, as we see they’re already starting to hurt greatly in making so many different products.
The only reason why they don’t do it is bc they want people to buy the more expensive iphone 7 plus. Not bc they can’t. I think they should also sell a iphone 7 pro or whatever with 4.7 inch for those who want all specs but not the giant size. Or they just make the 7plus with smaller bezels. But as long as isheeps don’t start complaining about the way they’re treated by apple, apple understandably won’t change anything. I mean from a company’s point of view it’s smart to sell outdated phones for very high prices to their customers if a big part of customers are to stupid to complain.
@o0smoothies0o i agree with what you say but actually what apple does is very bad for customers but not for them. Selling crappy stuff for high prices is smart if people buy it. And iSheeps still buy it. The problem isn’t apple it’s the stupid fanboys out there.
5 inch phones these days have quad HD screens like s7. 1080p screens among 5 inch screens usually come with $300 android phones these days like the Nexus 5X. So in that case, apple is already way way way behind.
? The article says there’s zero evidence to suggest that dual camera is for an Iphone.
15″ MBP start w 16GB of RAM but only 8GB for its 13″ brother. So what? That’s product differentiation. Take it or leave it.
Right right, that’s not the understanding by Apple that more Pro users rely on that increased RAM because more Pro users purchase the 15″ for graphics intensive apps etc.
Come on. Why can people not understand that?
It is 100% different for iPhones, and it’s really sad that people try to equate iPhone 5.5″ extra features to Macbook’s. It’s sad because their thinking is categorically incorrect.
Does the Headphone Jack still there?
How do we know this is the 4.7″? This could be the iPhone SE or whatever they’re calling the rumored 4″ phone. Can anybody with some photoshop skills overlay a 5/5s/5c over this and see how the logo lines up so we can get a sense of scale?
Well we know it’s the 4.7 inch from looking at the proportions compared to the camera and the size of the Apple logo. Things like that. It’s obvious this is the 4.7 inch model.
iPod touch much…
The ipod touch looks great! man, even the iphone 5c looks better than the 6 and 6s.
I’m going to guess that the iPhone 7 will launch a little earlier than usual. A lot of the engineering work is held over from the six, likewise the SE is held over from the 5 and they will want them on the market as soon as possible. Especially if they are expecting weaker sales.
It will give them more time to focus on what appears as a MAJOR makeover for the entire line for 2017 including a completely new 4″ model.
Jony Ive really going out on a limb with the design of this one. Cutting edge stuff. Glad he’s still being brave and hasn’t been asleep at the wheel for the past 2 or 3 years.
Jony hasn’t been ever been asleep at Apple.
Here’s a person who wants change in design just because they want something new, yet can’t STAND that they are getting rid of the headphone jack to progress into the future.
Nonsensical comment. Removing the headphone jack is not progress, it’s ideologically driven lunacy. As for the design of the phone, I personally find the 6 to be uncomfortable to hold because it’s far, far too thin and has no sharp edges to grip. It’s also pig ugly, but that’s clearly subjective.
Phone design has kind of gone down the toilet of late in general. HTC had a good thing going for a while but their latest models are some of the most boring looking objects ever created. The new Galaxy S is dull too, but at least the edge has a little bit of character thanks to the pointless screen gimmick.
Right, in 100 years when everyone is flying around in autonomous drones, there are androids, underwater cities, we’ve colonized Mars and the Moon, and virtual reality has infinite applications, the 3.5mm headphone jack will still be in everything, because it’s the damn best we can do, and everyone knows it!
Dont worry, you’ll get over the fact that your headphones won’t work without an adapter in the next couple of years, and you’ll be completely fine with no headphone jack, you’ll just not mention it to anyone again, but in your own thoughts you be telling yourself you were wrong.
You comment about audio quality being worse, which is hilarious because if you’re an audiophile and you are listening to music via your iPhone, you’re an idiot because it has a tiny DAC, and you won’t get anywhere near the audio quality that you would on professional equipment.
I’d say there is a 98% chance that Apple touts superior audio quality as a result of lightning headphones, moreover, I believe they will begin selling HD music as a means to give a bump to sales as opposed to strictly streaming. I see no way that the inclusion of 4 speakers in the iPads doesn’t say that they are putting more focus on audio quality. They could have not done 4 speakers, and instead added massively more battery.
Why not? That headphone jack has been around for 50 years…it’s time to move to digital connection. Do you still want to hang on a floppy disk? Once Apple do this, everyone follows: floppy disk, CD ROM…
Lol. Seriously this is an extremely boring design choice if true.
I so hope this is fake! Apple need to give it a complete makeover. Apple was the leading the way in design unfortunately seems like Apple have lost its way. With the samsung s6 and s7 egde, Samsung have done extremely well with its design and in my eys have taken the lead in design. Apple can not wait until the year after or 2018 to come up with some sort of curved screen iPhone! Apple everyone wait for a big screen now it make us all wait for a new curved screen or an alternative screen design! And its time now Apple put some massive focus on battery life. Capacity on iPhones are too small compared to the rest of the market!
If Apple ever makes a curved screen iPhone I’ll laugh hysterically at their stupidity and most definitely will not be purchasing it. It’s not in any way, intelligent design.
why isn’t it an intelligent design? Apple have been awarded curved display for iPhones.
Apple has been awarded with numerous designs and ideas that were conceptualized and immediately patented whether or not they were decidedly intelligent, or likely to be sought after in future devices. Most are extremely broad and could have numerous different applications or adjustments.
It isn’t intelligent design, because it is a gimmick that is almost entirely useless. Assuming the idea is that you can glean information if the device is laying down and you are looking at the side of it, or control things off the main display, by adjusting things on the side, that is absurdly useless. It is far better to have everything done on the main, flat display. It’s almost as stupid as to put a display on the front and back of the device.
Curved displays do have uses, but smartphones, and numerous other devices, are not one of them.
Apple doesn’t care.
We all know the Galaxy S7 has better cameras, better battery life, wireless charging, faster charging, waterproof casing, expandable memory, better screen technology with higher screen resolution, larger screens with much smaller bezels, etc.
Most of us are too locked into their ecosystem to leave, and Apple knows that.
The way things are looking i think I will be purchasing my 1st samsung.
This is the only year i have debated whether i want the next iPhone or not!
Used the S7… I am regretting it now… it’s battery is not good at all… I don’t why Samsung would lie…
Wireless charging that isn’t at least at 1 meter is 100% worthless and a complete gimmick that morons love.
Of all what you listed about GS7, people don’t care and don’t need. You can put tons of bells and whistles in a Hyundai Genesis, but it’ll never be a BMW. Get that?
Wow. Breathtaking design. I’m glad the 3.5mm jack has gone, and I sure do hope they shave off a whole .01 mm, then it’ll be perfect. Oh, and I really love the fringe and stubble look…
What has happened to Apple? Everything is the same now, it’s all so predictable. Same experience as the past 2 years. Woo.
Everyone said the same when Apple ditched the optical drive. Look where we are now. Nobody cries about the Retina Macbook Pro, Macbook, Macbook Air not having an optical drive.
The jack port is ancient technology and if you are still so fond of cabled audio, there is still the lightning port which by the way, offers better audio quality than the jack port.
This is the future, be prepared for an iPhone without a sim card tray, home button because those times aren’t far away.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. First off, analogue audio sounds far superior to digital. Secondly, cabled headphones are not some dying legacy product, they’re the absolute de facto standard for audio. Thirdly, what’s the replacement? Lightning is a total dead end as it will add cost, prevent charging whilst listening to audio, lock headphones to being used on a single device, and sound worse. So what then? Bluetooth? Hilarious. Bluetooth audio is a total joke. The sound quality is absolutely terrible and there’s zero sync with video.
Meanwhile Samsung just released the latest Galaxy S which is far prettier than any iPhone, has a much better display, is waterproof, and HAS A HEADPHONE JACK. Oh and an SD card slot too. Just goes to show what you can do when you give a damn. Despite the iPhone being Apple’s most successful product, they seem to have completely lost interest in it. Perhaps if Jony hadn’t decided to become an architect he might have been able to steer the ship back on course.
The reason lightning would offer better audio quality is because Apple could add technology to make the audio better. Which they can’t do with the 3.5 mm jack port.
The replacement is bluetooth audio. The quality may not be as good as cabled audio but I use a 150$ bluetooth headset and the quality is ridiculously good. You are simply a hater if you say bluetooth audio isn’t good. Or you used 10$ bluetooth headphones. Yes the video does sync with the audio, are you living in 1990?
The only reason jack is still around is because it’s universal (more than usb). People with music installations have spent lots of money and those also use the 3.5 mm jack port.
Go to sleep son.
@Inaba_kun Zero sync with video? What rock have you been living under?
How could lightning ever be better quality than an ANALOGUE wired connection. Wired analogue is raw and uncompressed. It doesn’t get any better. It’s the pinnacle. The end game. Everything else is a downgrade. Perhaps why it’s so popular. Even if lightning was better it would still be a massive inconvenience to expect people to buy new headphones just to satisfy an absurd and illogical design choice, not to mention the cost to the planet in people binning perfectly good headphones and making a pointless purchase of new ones.
I’ve tried several sets of bluetooth headphones and the sound was always muffled and gritty when compared to analogue. If you’re not an audiophile then it might do the job, but as someone who spent a small fortune on a high end home cinema set-up I have high standards.
No matter how good headphones you have plugged into an iPhone are they still get around CD quality output. They don’t have a DAC to get higher quality sound. With USB-C or lightning you can put DAC into the phone or a DAC Converter for 3.5 headphones. Remember phone jacks are from 1887 and meant to tramper phone calls. Its time for new technology.
They will be plenty of adapters so i don’t see what the big deal is. Im only afraid of Apple using Lightning instead USB-C. With the MFI program it would make Lightning headphones suck. What is there 2 different Lightning headphones on the market now? Because MFI and Apple’s draconian control of chips Airplay systems, iBeacons, HomeKit devices, and Lightning headphones have all be very slow to market or have had very small penetration.
@Inaba_kun – I am gonna laugh so hard at your comments when Samsung gets rid of the headphone jack as well. I say either by the S8 or S9, when Apple will have proven by then, ONCE AGAIN, that they made the right choice.
Agree, some people love to onto dinosaur technology. Sure analog devices sound good, but it’s unrealistic to keep them forever. I like tube amplifier, but hell, it’s archaic.
Its the Cook effect!
In order to own the element of surprise, you first have to become predictable. Apple is the king of this. They get you used to the same release cycle, then they can spring a new event, out of no where, and everyone stops to see what it is. We are now mid-cycle, we are where Apple needs us to be.
It takes a few (3 to 7) years to develop something really new, and most of what Apple develops that is really new and ground-breaking never sees the light of day. Apple has made curved screens. They have made touch screen Macs – in fact, they built a touch-screen Mac BEFORE the iPod and iPhone ever came out – they just never released it. Apple built Augmented Reality goggles when Google was still part of the Apple board – Google left and stole that work, later releasing Google Glass. Apple chose not to release their Goggle Solution because they knew the market was not ready for it. Apple knows exactly what they are doing, They can do anything that these other companies do, at will, they simply do not show what they are doing to the public.
As far as design goes, Samsung, and others, have stolen 95% of their phone design from Apple. The buttons, the antenna design, the colors, everything – there is a reason Samsun lost in court to Apple over stealing designs. The industry follows Apple, always has since the iMac came out… and in more subtle ways before then.
There are greater expectations for Apple than any other company, it’s hard to live up to that sort of demand, no company ever has, except for Apple. Apple knows what they are doing, their building a friggin’ spaceship… testing a car… testing home automation… testing things you haven’t even though to complain about yet. You are being lulled to sleep, just have have a cold bucket of water tossed on you when you least suspect it.
It’s coming, but not until Apple is ready, and the market is ripe – they have zero reason to pivot in any way right now.
Wow, that was nauseating.
That was by far the worst comment I’ve read in a long, long time. Truly hard to read. I usually like Apple products, but this guy just wrote a love letter to Apple with a full hard-on.
There is no denying that Apple have created things which have never been released, but the way you are fawning over them you would think that no other tech company ever has ever invented, thought or got things up their sleeve. Apple didn’t invent touch screens, augmented reality goggles, buttons, antennas and laughably colours, which is what you are basically implying.
It’s an embarassing, asslicking comment not befitting of a grown man.
XD that “iPhone 7” sure looks like an iPod touch with antenna lines ;D …good luck selling that apple
There is what appears to be a raised rim around the camera hole. So maybe this camera is not flush with the body as rumored? But you can’t really say for sure with this photo so we’ll have to wait and see…
How is this any different?
It isn’t! Such a let down so far lol
Yeah, I have to agree with you there. I’m glad those messy antenna bands are gone. But the rest of the design looks very conventional. The Samsung S7 Edge is still the style king, Apple have completely lost their edge in the design department…Jony’s been asleep on the job for a couple of years now and preoccupied with other things. From a quality and reliability point of view, Apple are still at the top of their game. But on other things…design, technology, desirability…they’ve lost their leadership.
If you examine the camera hole more carefully you will see it’s actually not much larger than the existing hole. Look to the Apple logo for reference.
I just observed the only great part about these images and that is that if you look closely at the left image, you can see what appears to be speaker grill on the bottom right of the device—where it is now—but nothing on the bottom left besides a single microphone hole, and nothing appears to be on the top left of the device which would be diagonal and further at spot from the current speaker. If this is indicative of no 2 speakers, which I think it is, thank god Apple wasn’t stupid enough to waste the extremely valuable internal space on that.
Just for clarity: this says no headphone jack, and no 2 speakers.
Indeed. Which does makes sense, I mean for music or anything of value on a phone people use earphones or headphones. Using that space to push components down that direction to leave room for a larger battery would be a superb idea. I must have a look at the image to see what you see. I only noticed the camera bump and the fact that the camera hole doesn’t actually look any larger as was suggested in the above piece.
@irelandjnr Look at the left image that shows the front of the phone case. If you zoom in you can see in order from bottom left to bottom right: a microphone hole, a screw hole, the Lightning port, the second screw hole, then the speaker holes.
Also, if you look at the right side of the device you can see that it still has a SIM cutout, which is highly disappointing.
If Apple wants to make me buy an extremely oversized iPhone to get the best features, I’ll be extremely pissed off and I probably won’t buy either.
The only difference between between a large iPhone and a small iPhone, should be its screen size (fill the empty space with more battery).
Phil used to mock Samsung and other OEMs because he said that “giving the best features in a giant phone was easy, the challenge is doing it in a small one”. Well, guess what?
Steve always complained about overcomplicated product lines. And we are clearly heading to a complete mess. F**k Tim, he clearly doesn’t know which products will actually work so he releases everything on his mind and sees what sticks.
This is Apple, not any other tech company. The Apple brand used to mean something.
yep, Steve Jobs certainly didn’t have an ipod, iphone touch, iphone shuffle, and ipod nano all on sale at the same time. Steve knew how to keep product lines simple…
Then you should tell Apple to make MBP 13″ with same RAM as 15″
Same ram? You can’t even get a discrete graphics card in a 13″ model! it’s not Pro! Apple is forcing us into buying these big, bulky laptops with larger screens to work on and other benifits! blah burn it down /s
And by the way, I hope there isn’t a Pro shit. They can’t slap the Pro term to every single device.
“Here you go, a Pro device that can’t open two Safari windows at the same time”.
Stop trying to trick customers by sticking a Pro suffix. I think of all those poor people who wanted a MacBook Pro and got the oversized iPad because they were tricked into it, and I feel sorry for them. Most people don’t know about tech, and this fake Pro names are targeted at them.
Someone should sue Apple for misleading names and false advertising.
have you seen the iPad Pro editing 4k footage?! Quicker than most macs running MacOSX. It’s an impressive machine, if you “knew about tech”, you wouldn’t be so harsh.
So you acuse someone of not knowing about tech after defining a Pro device only by its raw power?
If you are a “real Pro” today, and not the kind of fake Pro Apple wants you to believe you are, a 12″ Macbook with its crappy CPU, being outperformed in all areas by the A9X CPU, with only 1 port and a 12″ screen, is definitely a better Pro device than the big iPad.
To start, you can place two Safari windows side by side.
@Tom Apple should put a9x in the MacBook and release ARM enabled OSX. The MacBook is absurdly over priced. $1599 for the top model that is outperformed by the iPad Pro.
How does having 2 Safari Windows make the MacBook a pro device? It is still overpowered by the iPad Pro l. Do iPads need padOS or a more tailored yearly update to iOS absolutely. They have watchOS and tvOS now, padOS makes much more sense and would fix many of the problems with iPads.
@taoprophet420 it isn’t. But I’m just pointing out some absolutely trivial and simple functions that a “Pro” device can’t yet handle. What use is to bloat about how many simultaneous 4K video streams can edit, if it just can’t handle the most simple and basic stuff? Whats the use of all that “extra super amazing power” if you can’t put it to use? Its like having a Lambo with a speed limiter set to 40mph. It doesn’t matter the V12 under the hood, a Prius will still outperform you.
At this current moment, the clearly inferior 12″ Macbook is a better “Pro” device than the “super powerful” iPad “Pro”. Heck, even a 2009 Macbook is more Pro than the iPad “Pro” for real work.
Wow, the 9to5Mac comments are usually so civilized and these feel more like I’m at a rally for Donald Trump.
These are likely real parts but what is the use of getting so worked up over leaked parts?
I think because 9to5 record is excellent. Whatever they leak saying its the real deal, is 99% the real deal. This is the only site with accurate and reliable leaks of Apple products.
True that!
The issue is that no one gets the marketing or larger context yet. We only see bits and pieces of things that might be true but not the whole story. Most other consumers don’t subject themselves to this insanity. They get a nice and tidy delivery of a product after it’s been finalized. ha ha
ugh. Though these iphone 7 rumors have been some of the more heated ones I’ve seen by far.
First off the plus model is.2 mm thicker and has optical stabilization, so the 2 phone are already difference
Secondly KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said 30% of the 5.5″ iPhones will have dual cameras. That most likely means there will be 2 5.5″ models.
Thirdly the plus model is supposed to have 3 GB of ram
Apple could use OLED and have dual cameras and be tailored to be a DSLR replacement.
You guys want Apple to bring back a fucking 4″ phone, but do not want them to have different features for the 5.5″ model. I guess you want them to ditch the phone jack, include 3D Touch, have dual lens camera and other other feature.
I think it is stupid for Apple to release a 4″ phone, but they are doing it. They could put OLED screens in a 4.7″ device and achieve a phone close to the size of the iPhone 5.
Apple has not got 3D Touch working at a high enough yield rate or we would see them this year. The iPhone 7 is going to be 1 mm thinner do to the new display panel. Its most likely thinner, because they can now better put the 3D Touch sensors into it. The first generation 3D Touch panels made the iPhones .2 mm thicker.
The Plus model having 3GB of RAM means that it will have a 2k display. The 4.7″ will have a 1080p display. This will be the display upgrade this year; an increase in pixel density.
A DSLR replacement for the photographer that decides not to buy the required instruments for their job, and instead relies on a far far worse camera. Genius I say!
You’re right about the fact that they could reduce the bezels of the device to make a 4.7″ phone in roughly the size of the 4″ phone, however, this is not what they will do. What Apple has decided is that they like the physical sizes of the 3 phones they sell now. The 4″ phone is the only truly one-handed phone, and it feels the most comfortable to hold and use. The 4.7″ phone and 5.5″ phone sizes have been grown accustomed to by their respective users, and so, Apple has decided that when they reduce the bezels of the phones, they will increase screen size instead of reduce physical size.
My guess is in a few years, maybe the iPhone 8, Apple will release 3 new phones, all with massively reduced bezels.
4.3-4.4″; 5.0-5.1″; 5.8-6.0″
All three will be roughly the size of the current 4″, 4.7″ and 5.5″ respectively. This will spur an enormous amount of upgrades both due to OLED, and also increased screen sizes.
There should be 3 phones with roughly the same specs and features, and they should be called iPhone 8 Mini, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus. Simple, and amazing.
“Secondly KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said 30% of the 5.5″ iPhones will have dual cameras. That most likely means there will be 2 5.5″ models.”
If true, that most likely means the dual camera lenses will initially be supply constrained. Otherwise, having two separate 5.5″ iPhones doesn’t make much sense.
The Chassis does not afford another hole for the dual camera. the chassis shown only affords holes foe a single camera and the LED flash. the dual camera shown has two large cameras needing larger holes in the chassis. the leaked pictures do not add up. Dual cameras will probably be in the 7s or iPhone 8
The dual cameras have already been rumored for a subset of the iPhone 7 Plus models, which this is not one of, so yes, the images do add up perfectly, and the more you look at them, the more you realize that these are likely real.
The focus being on the fact that it has no headphone jack port, but also has moved the single microphone hole which currently sits directly beside the headphone jack port, to further over to the right, much closer to the left Lightning port screw hole. I surmise that, because they removed the headphone jack, they decided the single microphone hole would look best symmetrically opposite the first speaker hole on the right side, which is actually the second microphone hole, itself.
About the camera issue. I am starting to believe that the dual-sensor camera version of the Plus will get the ‘Pro’ moniker. This might be because once Apple can ramp up production of the dual-sensor module, they’ll then release a ‘Pro’ version of the 4.7″ model with said camera (like with the upcoming 9.7″ ‘Pro’ version of the iPad) Then with the ‘S’ version of this model next year the dual-sensor camera will come as standard on both screen sizes and the ‘Pro’ moniker might then be dropped.
You understand how incredibly beyond stupid selling smartphones to the masses with a ‘pro’ moniker is? Honestly if they did that Samsung wins just on forfeit of all intellect at Apple.
This is not a 4.7 inch iPhone! The proportions fit that of the iPhone 5s so I guess it’s not the iPhone 7, but the iPhone SE.
At least these lines are an improvement. I hope they go with black for the color on the space grey and white for the silver models. I really dislike the trying-to-be-metal greys that they use now. They just look off. I’d almost rather see it with full plastic caps on either end. It would be an even cleaner design since it’d remove extra borders.
Still disappointing they don’t have a solution that fully removes the line. Be it a new ceramic back or something more elegant.
The iPhone 6 is by far my least favorite design… If all Apple is doing is removing the horizontal antenna lines, and some internal improvements, then count me out… I was really hoping for a completely new design for the iPhone 7
I just did a quick photoshop comparison. The phone in the images above must have a MUCH bigger lens, and a differently size logo for this to a real Iphone 6 sized phone. I think this is the SE.
This is the iPhone 7, unless you think the iPhone SE won’t have a headphone jack, because this image shows no headphone jack if you look closely.
I hope the get rid of the giant bezels around the phone and make both phones smaller. It’s starting to get comically ridiculous.
This is so fake. First of all… Why would “Apple” utse Windows for these kind of things? Im pretty sure they are using their own systems (such as Mac, OS)