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Apple Suddenly 'Confirms' Three Radical New iPhones
- blog_o_mator 8y ago"Radical New iPhones" The iPhone X comes in three sizes now. Golly gee. So different. Much upgrade. How radical. This is why advertorials are the pestilence of all reading material. Breathless "reporting" to generate buzz. I'm quite through with getting emotionally invested in nearly anything anymore, because more than half of it is too pushy, and my nerves simply couldn't handle this much excitement if they tried. You know what else involved as much excitement as chum-bucket-swaddled blog-o-sphere internet news? Trench warfare during WWI. When the signal to noise ratio overwhelms a certain threshold, people lose their minds and cease functioning.
- willio58 8y agoSo I've read the budget (middle) one will not have an OLED display, I wonder how that will affect the look when the status bar has a black background. Will it look bad?
- roryisok 8y agoI'm more wondering about the price. Betting "budget" means like $799
- chasingthewind 8y agoThe iPhone 6s is currently starting at $450 so I would expect "budget" to be somewhere in that range.
- ceejayoz 8y agoI wouldn't. Apple's current lines are X, 8, 7, 6s, SE. The X budget will presumably sit between X and 8 pricing-wise. It's a cheap X, not a cheap phone.
- BearOso 8y agoThe LCD one won’t be able to have a bent backplane like the OLED one, either, so it’ll need to have a “chin” on the bottom.
- cududa 8y agoThe top glass piece already leaked. Doesn’t seem to be the case. Though the bezel is thicker - seems they’ve figured something out
- modells 8y agoRadical? There’s creative destruction and uncreative/destructive destruction. It comes across that 3D Touch is being sacrificed for optimizing supply-chain cheapness (Tim Cook’s wheelhouse), which would go against Apple’s core philosophy similarly to automaker’s hand-wringing depts. make terrible “mandatory” designs suck in order to appease bureaucrats.
- lgvln 8y agoHas anyone done comparison of iPhone X’s PWM OLED vs iPhone 8/7’s non-PWM LCD? I’ve found the screen on my 2016 MacBook Pro to be uncomfortable(eye strain) for reading despite its resolution and wide colour gamut compared to other screen. I suspect it’s due to the use of the PWM.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoThat article seemed to be completely bereft of any real information on the Radical new phones.
- zeeed 8y agoThe announced radicality is restricted to the naming of 4 digit type identifiers without providing any further info. This is clickbait.