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Apple To Launch Three New iPhone Models Next Month, Report Says (bloomberg.com) 118

Posted by msmash from the show-me-the-money dept.
Next month, Apple plans to introduce three new phones in September -- an updated iPhone X, a bigger phone and a successor to the iPhone 8 with the iPhone X design, Bloomberg reports. The updated iPhone X could be considered as an "S upgrade" with a better system-on-a-chip and better cameras. The phone itself could look exactly the same as the iPhone X you can buy today. From the report: There'll be a new high-end iPhone, internally dubbed D33, with a display that measures about 6.5-inch diagonally, according to the people familiar with the matter. That would make it the largest iPhone by far and one of the biggest mainstream phones on the market. It will continue to have a glass back with stainless steel edges and dual cameras on the back. The big difference on the software side will be the ability to view content side-by-side in apps like Mail and Calendar. It will be Apple's second phone with a crisper organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, screen.

[...] Apple also plans an upgrade to the current iPhone X with a 5.8-inch OLED screen, which is internally dubbed D32, the people said. The main changes to the new OLED iPhones will be to processing speed and the camera, according to the people familiar with the devices. [...] Perhaps the most significant phone will be a new, cheaper device destined to replace the iPhone 8. Codenamed N84, it will look like the iPhone X, but include a larger near 6.1-inch screen, come in multiple colors, and sport aluminum edges instead of the iPhone X's stainless steel casing. It will also have a cheaper LCD screen instead of an OLED panel to keep costs down. The cheaper version's aluminum edges won't necessarily be the same color as the colored glass back, simplifying production, one person familiar with the matter said.
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  • Yawn. "Cheaper Aluminum Phones...with cheaper screens"

     

    • As oppose the other complaint of Apple devices? More expensive titanium/gold/unobtainium devices with a more expensive screen/touchbar/camera?

      This is just the expected Apple bashing. If Apple came out with a cures for breast cancer, sickle cell, and juvenile diabetes then they'd be pilloried for doing nothing for old white guys.

      • As oppose the other complaint of Apple devices? More expensive titanium/gold/unobtainium devices with a more expensive screen/touchbar/camera?

        This is just the expected Apple bashing. If Apple came out with a cures for breast cancer, sickle cell, and juvenile diabetes then they'd be pilloried for doing nothing for old white guys.

        Totally false. They 'allegedly" cause testicular, prostate and brain cancer. They love white men.

        If you check your Apple Store terms of service they also require your will to be re-written to leave everything to them when you do die. /s

  • Best New Feature (Score:5, Funny)

    by bogie ( 31020 ) on Monday August 27, 2018 @10:18AM (#57202690) Journal

    I heard in addition to no headphone jack and no home button they have removed the microphone and speaker as well. You just have to drive to a cell phone tower and yell at it...

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      But you will be yelling at it wrong!!

    • I'm not sure why we haven't seen a phone with no ports.Obviously you still need a speaker and a microphone. But once you have removed the headphone jack, you might as well remove the USB/Lightningport and just use wireless charging. Most people don't use it for data transfer anyway, and you can just do that over WiFi if you need to. To me it makes way more sense to remove the power port than it does to remove the headphone jack, especially if you have wireless charging. There's way more people who us the h

      • I'm not sure why we haven't seen a phone with no ports.

        You will someday most likely. State of the art just hasn't gotten there yet. I'm pretty sure Apple is working towards zero ports and zero buttons as soon as they can manage it. I'm not convinced that's actually a good idea but it would be consistent with Apple's historical preferences.

        There's way more people who us the headphone jack than those who use the USB/Lightning jack for actual computer connectivity.

        Probably true. I haven't used my lighting cable to connect to a PC or Mac in years. Honestly I wish they'd just go USB-C since the lightning cable provides zero real benefit to me as a user other than being better than mi

        • Honestly I wish they'd just go USB-C since the lightning cable provides zero real benefit to me as a user other than being better than micro-USB (which sucks).

          It wasn't until fairly recently that USB-C supported alternate modes for audio and/or video. Until that was added to the spec such devices would need an external USB adapter, which added cost and complexity. Apple brought out Lightning in 2012, 2 years before USB-C was introduced, and it supported audio and video modes from the start. Remembering this history explains why Apple adopted the Lightning port to begin with. Keeping the port allows Apple to differentiate their devices from others, such as avo

          • It wasn't until fairly recently that USB-C supported alternate modes for audio and/or video.

            USB-C is faster, delivers more power, is cheaper, and is more versatile than Lightning as things stand today. The historical reasons why Apple developed Lightning are irrelevant and the reasons they continue to use it have almost nothing to do with any technical advantages of Lightning (which are few) over USB-C.

            Remembering this history explains why Apple adopted the Lightning port to begin with.

            Apple introduced the Lightning port because A) micro-USB severely sucks as a physical connector, and B) Apple wants a proprietary connector that they can control and charge extra for and C) USB-C w

      • Once the world settles on a wireless charging standard, and it starts to become more ubiquitious, like getting built into cars, we may well see things move that way.

    • I heard in addition to no headphone jack and no home button they have removed the microphone and speaker as well. You just have to drive to a cell phone tower and yell at it...

      You laugh now but I could see this happen, except for the yell at the cell tower part, perhaps not from Apple though.

      People have become accustomed to using Bluetooth headsets for their cell phones, as well as other wireless accessories, and so there might not be a need for a speaker and microphone on the phone itself. Wireless charging is now a thing, as well as interfaces that don't use buttons. I'm not even sure the "home button" on recent models are a button any more. I think that they are just a capa

  • It will finally be competitive with the low end Chinese phones.

  • Battery Life (Score:2, Insightful)

    by lazarus ( 2879 )

    I just purchased a Thinkpad in favor of a mac laptop (I've been using the Apple brand exclusively for about a decade) because of their shitty keyboards, and I will be replacing my iPhone 7 plus with something non-Apple unless their new phones have much better battery life. I don't know what they are thinking, but a phone that lasts a solid day is more important than slightly faster graphics performance for the game you can play for an hour before your phone is dead.

    • my favourite thing is accidentally sliding my finger off the delete key and muting my laptop speaker

      did that this morning, again, during a conference call and spent 5 minutes wondering if the line had dropped because i couldnt hear anything

      • Re:Battery Life (Score:4, Insightful)

        by llamalad ( 12917 ) on Monday August 27, 2018 @11:10AM (#57203090)

        Well, you can toggle it to show function keys by default.

        Then you'll just have your whole screen slide over when you accidentally hit the picture of a key over delete.

        WTF ever happened to Apple's human interface guidelines? Consistency and sanity in a user interface (ie, don't steal focus from the user) was genius.

    • I just purchased a Thinkpad in favor of a mac laptop (I've been using the Apple brand exclusively for about a decade) because of their shitty keyboards, and I will be replacing my iPhone 7 plus with something non-Apple unless their new phones have much better battery life. I don't know what they are thinking, but a phone that lasts a solid day is more important than slightly faster graphics performance for the game you can play for an hour before your phone is dead.

      You're considering switching to Android for INCREASED battery life?!?

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!

  • It looks like to me.

  • SE (Score:5, Insightful)

    by ChristTrekker ( 91442 ) on Monday August 27, 2018 @10:58AM (#57203006)
    When what we really want is an upgrade to the SE. Small, inexpensive, to handle the basics of smartphone life, and that's it.
    • I second this...oh well.

    • When what we really want is an upgrade to the SE. Small, inexpensive, to handle the basics of smartphone life, and that's it.

      No, that's what YOU want.

      There's a difference.

    • I just upgraded to the SE from the 6, I wanted to return to a more convenient size. I upgraded now in case the SE got dropped in the upcoming refresh.

    • When what we really want is an upgrade to the SE.

      What YOU want is an upgrade to the SE. Personally I quite like the form factor and capabilities of the X and the SE screen is too small for my usage habits. The X is big enough without being too big. It's not perfect but it gets the big picture stuff mostly right by me. If you want something smaller and more basic I understand but please don't pretend what you or I want has any bearing on what other people want.

    • I also have an SE, and like its size.

      The problem is that too many applications today assume that you have at least something like an iPhone 6/7/8 (in terms of screen size), reducing their usability on an SE screen size.
  • Obviously I'm a grumpy old man (see my UID) but I don't see the point of having a phone that won't easily fit into your pocket and requires a fanny pack. Big screens are great ON TABLETS where I expect to carry them around like a notebook but not on a portable communications device! I like my iPhone6 size

    Unless this is some nefarious scheme to get around the bendy iPhone issue. There, see?! It won't fit in your pocket now so you don't have to worry about bending it!

    • Another Grumpy /.'er here -- 5 digit id.

      I have both a 5 and 7+.

      When I got the 7+ the 5 got put away and mostly forgotten. I recently dug up the 5 since I was doing comparisons on the beautiful model 5 UI (v 6.1) and the fugly model 7 UI (v11.3). I was surprised at just "how small" the 5 is. At first I hated the large size of the 7+ but I've grown to like it. If you spend any amount of time web surfing or browsing YouTube on the phone then you'll appreciate the much larger screen size. There also have bee

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dfghjk ( 711126 )

      Grumpy old men prefer big screens to compensate for their deteriorating eyesight and their oversized shorts have pockets plenty big enough. That is, of course, assuming they use a cell phone at all. Furthermore, grumpy old men don't carry around tablets or notebooks for that matter.

      You are not a grumpy old man, just a whiner who can't imagine anything beyond what you already know. Not long ago your "iPhone6 size" was absurdly big.

      • I'm a grumpy old man, see my UID, and I have an iPhone 7 and I still use an old iPhone 4 when travelling ( I don't mind losing it ). Not all grumpy old men have bad eyesight.
    • Fortunately I can wear cargo pants/short much of the time but I just upgraded from the 6 to the SE over a more convenient size. The 6 seemed just barely comfortable in jeans and I'm over 6ft with a large frame. I can't use back pockets since I will forget and sit on the phone. I don't dislike the 6/7/8 size, I just didn't find the extra screen worth the extra size. Maybe it is an age thing, I don't watch movies on the phone, I'll use an iPad for that, maybe the occasional youtube video on the phone.

    • Obviously I'm a grumpy old man (see my UID) but I don't see the point of having a phone that won't easily fit into your pocket and requires a fanny pack.

      You're obviously a grumpy old midget who wears skinny jeans. I can fit a 7" tablet into most of my pants pockets, so any cellphone is no problem.

      What I don't see is the point of having a phone that locks you into a walled garden into which plenty of monsters and reprobates seem to be able to enter.

  • What’s the over/under on how many of those minutes will be devoted to Animoji?

    I pick 42 minutes.

    • I heard the animoji will now be 4D. The talking poo will be rendered so realistic you can smell it.

  • Just as soon as I feel like it.

    My iPhone 8 works perfectly fine, with it's maxed out memory.

    I'll buy the redo of the iPhone 5 that became the SE that will become the iPhone 12 SE, and only be advertised in Asia, but sold in the US if you order it.

  • Bet the lines outside the apple stores have started. Overpriced, over hyped, over powered. Not just Apple, Samsung as well. Oh well, that's the nice thing about CHOICE. Not my money if you want to waste it on stuff like that. Man, can you image Steve Jobs looking at a SIX INCH iPhone and complaining? You don't need a screen THAT big he said years ago.

  • Pronounced "eleven".

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