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iPhone Beauty Contest: You Be the Judge
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Here’s a string of iPhone mock ups, all on the same stage and referenced for your convenience. :wink:
Miss California!
[ Edited: 04 September 2011 09:09 PM by ByeTMO ]
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Miss Washington! (Never mind the iPhone 4 tag—she looks good enough to include this year)
[ Edited: 04 September 2011 08:55 PM by ByeTMO ]
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Miss Florida!
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Miss Idaho! (Good chance for Miss Congeniality)
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The first concept is looking closest to the rumor consensus, or possibly “common sense”, since Apple might be looking for an easier way of app switching for iPhone 5 by including a touch-sensitive Home button (though I’d be fine with the multi-touch screen chords as demoed on iPads).
I continue to believe Apple won’t tick off case makers - and compromise the usability of its own products - by radically minimizing bezels. The bezel might be a little thinner than the iPhone 4 (for example, my Speck Pixel HD case has “room” for that kind of adjustment), but trying to eliminate it would be a bad idea. The “picture frame” still has its place on smartphones.
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The first concept is looking closest to the rumor consensus, or possibly “common sense”, since Apple might be looking for an easier way of app switching for iPhone 5 by including a touch-sensitive Home button (though I’d be fine with the multi-touch screen chords as demoed on iPads).
I continue to believe Apple won’t tick off case makers - and compromise the usability of its own products - by radically minimizing bezels. The bezel might be a little thinner than the iPhone 4 (for example, my Speck Pixel HD case has “room” for that kind of adjustment), but trying to eliminate it would be a bad idea. The “picture frame” still has its place on smartphones.
Ah, Miss California. Shapely, blonde and thin. Nice choice, Mav.
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Your words, not mine. I just said iPhone Concept #1.
I’d prefer my iPhone not be TOO thin. But since even Jony Ive and Steve Jobs know that something the thickness of a sheet of paper can only be so durable
, I’ll reserve judgment until the unicorn iPhone 5 finally makes an appearance. I’d almost prefer the iPhone 5 to be similar to the iPhone 4 in design, which has unbelievable build quality.Signature
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I like Miss Oregon….thinner with steel back.
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A sleek concept, but
(1) I don’t see Apple going back to slider switches for volume, because the whole world is fixated on “the Camera Button”...and why’d the ring/silent switch lose the slider?,
(2) The last time Apple made any visible concessions to improving signal strength and reception in the form of a plastic cut-out, it was with the first iPhone (for iPhone 3G/S, it was more like a “feature”), and
(3) Maybe you meant anodized aluminum back, because that’s what the concept art guy is clearly getting at?
Don’t get me wrong. I’d be a big fan of this design too (the steel band/inner frame lends a crazy amount of solidity to the iPhone 4), but I don’t remember the last time Apple mixed up aluminum and steel in the exterior of any Apple product.
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Don’t get me wrong. I’d be a big fan of this design too (the steel band/inner frame lends a crazy amount of solidity to the iPhone 4), but I don’t remember the last time Apple mixed up aluminum and steel in the exterior of any Apple product.
I meant to say metal—stainless with aluminum, as depicted.
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Let’s go with Liquidmetal - the Terminator iPhone. :evilsanta:
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Hoping those all metal designs are using the fancy liquid metal tech apple bought rights to use a while back.
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