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Reading this, my guess is they will be replacing the physical home button with screen area. They may also have found a way to put the top speaker (but what abou

Reading this, my guess is they will be replacing the physical home button with screen area. They may also have found a way to put the top speaker (but what about camera & sensors ??) under the display somehow. Any way, I hope the next iPhone won't be much taller itself.

nchlswu 14y ago
This is a great guess that makes a hell of a lot of sense to me. A simple elongation of the phone really doesn't fit in any mental model I have of Apple's design decisions.
- shinratdr 14y ago
  Why do you say that? It makes sense to me. Apple just isn't into changing stuff like that for changes' sake. Here, there is very little downside. You get more screen space for lists and pages in portrait, proper 16:9 in landscape, your thumb doesn't have do do more work or travelling, and UI elements aren't blown up or shrunk, all while satisfying the public's demand for a bigger screen. Seems pretty perfect to me, and moreover it is already set in stone. We've seen the iPhone 5, it's the two tone metal casing design that's floating around. It'll be longer, the glass parts make that clear. Assuming otherwise is just hoping blindly against the evidence. Every time there has been a big leak like this regarding Apple, it ends up proving to be the final design. Happened with the fat Nano, happened with the iPhone 4 and it has happened again with the 5.
jpxxx 14y ago
Mockups, loose parts, and the rumors all agree that the physical home button will be staying put, just slightly smaller than before.
shinratdr 14y ago
If you are hoping for the new iPhone to be anything other than EXACTLY what we've seen to date, you're going to be severely let down. This is Gizmodo with the iPhone 4 in their hands people, we may not have a working lost device in the wild but we have the next best thing. Parts that are clearly for the new iPhone. It's over, the speculation should now rest on the internals. Those hoping for a virtual home button, wider screen, or a plastic back are SOL and we already know this. It may or may not have NFC though, that sort of stuff is still up in the air. However it will be taller, it will still have a physical home button, and it will have the two-tone & all in one design we've seen floating around. I would bet my life on it.

nchlswu 14y ago

This is a great guess that makes a hell of a lot of sense to me. A simple elongation of the phone really doesn't fit in any mental model I have of Apple's design decisions.

shinratdr 14y ago
Why do you say that? It makes sense to me. Apple just isn't into changing stuff like that for changes' sake. Here, there is very little downside. You get more screen space for lists and pages in portrait, proper 16:9 in landscape, your thumb doesn't have do do more work or travelling, and UI elements aren't blown up or shrunk, all while satisfying the public's demand for a bigger screen. Seems pretty perfect to me, and moreover it is already set in stone. We've seen the iPhone 5, it's the two tone metal casing design that's floating around. It'll be longer, the glass parts make that clear. Assuming otherwise is just hoping blindly against the evidence. Every time there has been a big leak like this regarding Apple, it ends up proving to be the final design. Happened with the fat Nano, happened with the iPhone 4 and it has happened again with the 5.

jpxxx 14y ago

Mockups, loose parts, and the rumors all agree that the physical home button will be staying put, just slightly smaller than before.

shinratdr 14y ago

If you are hoping for the new iPhone to be anything other than EXACTLY what we've seen to date, you're going to be severely let down. This is Gizmodo with the iPhone 4 in their hands people, we may not have a working lost device in the wild but we have the next best thing. Parts that are clearly for the new iPhone. It's over, the speculation should now rest on the internals. Those hoping for a virtual home button, wider screen, or a plastic back are SOL and we already know this. It may or may not have NFC though, that sort of stuff is still up in the air. However it will be taller, it will still have a physical home button, and it will have the two-tone & all in one design we've seen floating around. I would bet my life on it.