Apple Sets New iPhone Event For September 12 (venturebeat.com) 71
Apple has officially sent out invitations to its latest media event, 'Gather round,' which will be held on September 12, 2018 -- a year to the day after the iPhone 8 and iPhone X were officially revealed. From a report: Following recent tradition, the event will start at 10:00 a.m. Pacific, and will be held in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California. The invite's theme is a pun on the circular shape of the Apple Park building, depicted with a golden tone. In addition to featuring finished versions of iOS 12 and watchOS 5, the event is expected to include the launch of three new iPhones -- possibly named the iPhone Xs (5.8-inch/6.5-inch) and iPhone Xc, reportedly including new gold-toned options -- as well as the new Apple Watch Series 4 with larger screens. A small software update to the Apple TV, tvOS 12, is also likely to arrive at the September event, as are Apple's long-awaited AirPower wireless charging pad and a wireless charging case for AirPods earphones.
They should have used September 11. (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe just a generic large screen phone design (Score:1)
Round iphone confirmed !!
I am disappointed you got downvoted for the brilliant irony. Apple is going to produce a rectangular slap with as much screen as possible. The news (drumroll) that they are doing a midrange(2 sims and a screen without burn in) at apple mark-up for the logo...without headphone jack/sdcard/ir blaster/radio etc, but yeah thats going to be a generic phone as well...maybe if you buy a case with a hole in people will see the logo through the hand your holding it with.
Phones Phones Phones (Score:1)
They will show copies of Android manufactures full screen phones with a very limited product range they have merged into the bland. Apple have become just a phone company, and a dull one at that.
Innovation(sic) from the Essential Phone (Score:1)
Yes, just like they copied the notch last year, they'll copy some other feature this year.
Oh wait...
They did until after Essential Phone did it first, and worse. In reality it is just an evolution of display technology that allows for none square screens, and it appears on even the cheapest phones. I personally like the Android copies the notch pictures that has gone round, they show how ugly Apples use of this technology.
Other Phone manufactures love the notch. Accusations of them copying it drive more sales, or Actively mocking it to do like wise. Both show (and your comment) how little Apple has to off
Re:Innovation(sic) from the Essential Phone (Score:4, Interesting)
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What I find amusing is that no manufacturer that decides to go with a notch [..] The notch in the iPhone X made possible for Apple to shave off the bottom chin and make all bezels (except the notch area) the same width around the phone, giving it its treademark looks.
What's amusing is that phone "innovation" has come down to an ugly hardware "notch" that interrupts the symmetry of the display area.
BTW, the Essential phone had a completely different type of notch, it doesn't house any IR or proximity sensors...
Oh, yeah, that's completely different. *eyeroll*
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Re: Phones Phones Phones (Score:3)
They are. Not that you'd know given you probably use a phone with (insert not-the-fastest-mobile-processor-on-earth here).
Since you are too busy brand-hating, you'd be the definition of not an expert in the field to which you espouse your biased unfounded views. Why don't you read the tech press and the articles of all the journalists who consistently rate the iPhone as the best consumer product of the century? Ass hat.
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Face rec is the one thing holding me back. I've got a 7+ and I love it, but I won't be using a phone that uses my face to unlock. No fingerprint scanner and I'm looking at what other options I have. I just wish there was a phone option that has a fingerprint scanner and is not tied to the google ecosystem. I don't use google products.
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Face rec is the one thing holding me back. I've got a 7+ and I love it, but I won't be using a phone that uses my face to unlock. No fingerprint scanner and I'm looking at what other options I have. I just wish there was a phone option that has a fingerprint scanner and is not tied to the google ecosystem. I don't use google products.
Just to put this out there - I hated idea of facial recognition also. Got the X a year ago and I love it. You get used to the facial system surprisingly fast. Also works in the dark.
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I won't use a security feature that would allow someone to unlock my phone just by pointing it at my face.
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I'm sure it works great, but I don't want to have to point a device at my face to use it.
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It's thinner! It's bigger! It's smaller!
It's a phone, stupid.
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Upgrade time is here indeed for fruit lovers. Apples phones devalue different to other phone companies. The drop in price like a stone after launch and suffer badly from OS updates. That's without their ongoing small battery problems, and limited storage(unless you through the nose...and that doesn't help the resale price)
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Apples phones devalue different to other phone companies. The drop in price like a stone after launch
Once I figured out what you were trying to say, I found that much of it didn't ring true to me, so I decided to do some research. Here are the used and launch prices for the highest-capacity, non-plus-sized, unlocked, currently-supported flagship models from both Apple and Samsung:
- iPhone X (256GB): $862 used, $1149 new (25% drop in 9 months, or 2.8%/mo.)
- iPhone 7 (256GB): $500 used, $849 new (41% drop in 22 months, or 1.9%/mo.)
- iPhone 6S (128GB): $231 used, $849 new (73% drop in 34 months, or 2.1%/mo.)
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Get your Maths On (Score:1)
Thank you for spending the time. The Best Value Phones are Android 6 months old, and Chinese imports. Comparing the Apples second hand with those of Androids is difficult. Ignoring the fact you have chosen a Samsung expensive phone which I wouldn't personally buy for the same reasons as I wouldn't buy a Apple. The average selling price is about $260 and rising
The main reason your post is flawed, is you are comparing RRP not actual selling price and monthly drops, not releases of new models. Using your figur
Upgrade Game. (Score:2)
I had upgraded my phone last year, so I am not too interested what is happening this year.
However.
Apple updates their product line once a year, Android Phone (and the few WebOS) users complain about all the features and designs they had copied from them and put it into the Apple product that they are selling as New and Unique. 3-9 months later Android phone makers will copy iPhone features and people will complain about that.
In short the quality of the ideas and the originality of them will come down to wh
Real Inprovements (Score:1)
Then you probably spent too much IMO on your phone. The Mid-Range Android phones have been innovative with real improvements, and have better features that than premium(sic) phones if you love things like a headphone jack, sdcard, radio and irblaster...and even real buttons, are cheap to buy and devalue very little. At the top end companies are starting to push the average selling price up by producing great value phones like the Pocophone F1 $300..and they don't devalue anything like as fast.
Riiiight (Score:2)
The Mid-Range Android phones have been innovative with real improvements,
Oh, you mean like multiple notches [engadget.com]?
Maybe an in screen fingerprint reader (Score:1)
Oh, you mean like multiple notches
Loving the fact a apple superfanatic is mocking the notch...Absolutely the mid range is experimental, and maybe the results are UGLY, but that is what choice is about. Ironically a second notch would have meant that Apples lack of an on screen fingerprint reader would have been less of a oversight, something mid-range Androids have.
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I think the problem is a lot of these makers are putting in a notch for no design reason other then trying to look like Apple, sometimes it is just an unused portion of the screen.
Apple wanted the screen to go as close to the edge. But it had a head speaker, a Camera, and a dot-projector in the way. Apple could try making these components right to the edge, or left a chin/forehead or they could use the extra unused space for some extra display.
The Notch is a design tradeoff problem, not a cool feature.
If
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Problem with Android phones is that they are chock full of bloatware. One of which had ads on the pull down menu which couldn't be gotten rid of. Unlike with Safari on iOS, there are no adblockers for the web browser that comes with Android, so half the time you go to a site, you get a takeover ad for a free component if you sign up to a bunch of garbage, and have to start all over.
Oh, security updates? They don't happen. Since Huawei and other companies are actively fighting custom ROMs, once they stop
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Which Android phones offer unlocked bootloaders? Not many these days. Huawei is definitely ensuring they don't.
My point still stands, because 99.9% of users do not have a rootable device, nor know/care what the "#" prompt means.
Why do Apple fanatics just lie. Rooting means you can run Fortnight. No Apple phones are rootable devices, and the new ones won't be, its a disgrace. In context of this article Lineage OS runs on these phones, most are quite popular. more people have a rootable device.
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Re: Why I love Android over iOS (Score:2)
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Your "long, long list" includes many phones which do not match the poster's criteria of "these days". The Samsung Galaxy S4 and S5 models, for example, from many years do not count.
I am glad you noticed that android a phone launched in March 14, 2013 is still supported. That phone was a bargin.
Re: Why I love Android over iOS (Score:2)
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We all spent too much for a phone, unless we have a $25 flip phone.
But these things you mentioned also come at a cost of waterproofing, security, and just reliability.
But hey if these features you mentioned are more important the the trade offs I mentioned at the degree they are trade offs. That is perfectly reasonable product.
Some people drive a Honda Fit, while other drive a BMW it is just about personal priorities in life, and I for one welcome the different options. I do not want to see Apple Only, or
iphone SE+ (Score:1)
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the iphone 4 was the last premium phone (Score:1)
That's all I care about. I paid $135 for my second hand SE, it runs perfectly and I look retro-chic
...except its not going to happen Apple only do a small range of phones...and they have chosen to copy Androids mid-range phones to chase its dwindling Chinese market. The iphone 4 was a great design ; it looked classy and distinct(seriously the notch), but today I am not so sure if its Sony/Braun looks cut it, especially with the fanatics.
There are a whole host of manufactures producing modern phone on modern SOC in that price range, brand new.
Re: the iphone 4 was the last premium phone (Score:2)
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Fixed the Name (Score:2)
Shouldn't it be called the iPhone Excess?
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The round Apple Watch face (Score:1)