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Design the next iPhone

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Re: Design the next iPhone

#63

At first I thought this was kind of "meh" but then I clicked over on the "components" list at the bottom. Dear god, I just spent the last 5 minutes giggling and adding absurd things to the phone. I absolutely love this.

Slap the lighting port in the middle of the screen, so you can't use it while charging.

We've been thinking hard about how we all navigate our expanding digital lives, and we at Apple think the greatest breakthroughs can only occur when we really take time to sit, consider and recharge. In 2017 we introduced Screen Time, a revolutionary way to track your digital usage, putting you in control. This year, we're going one step further and we're excited to announce Recharge Time, only for iPhone 15.

Re: Design the next iPhone

#65
post #34

This is so lame. Apple would never allow a 3.5mm jack even in a parody app. (j/k, fun stuff as always by Neal)

Winter is coming here in Europe. Having a phone with FM receiver is going to be very useful.

Ah c'mon, don't do that, we were just starting to enjoy ourselves in here!

Re: Design the next iPhone

#68

At first I thought this was kind of "meh" but then I clicked over on the "components" list at the bottom. Dear god, I just spent the last 5 minutes giggling and adding absurd things to the phone. I absolutely love this.

Slap the lighting port in the middle of the screen, so you can't use it while charging.

I put the front camera in the middle of the screen for the whole eye contact thing.

Re: Design the next iPhone

#69
post #54

I clicked present without adding anything, my design uses a telepathic interface, you simply think about it. If you see something, the image is transferred to the memory and uploaded to the cloud by simply desiring that occur. No microphone or earphones are needed, no Bluetooth. I call it the tiPhone it will be out in 2031, place your pre-orders now.

Why do you even need the brick? My design directly link your neurons to the cloud. Upload 3D vision, done. Connect to google maps, done. Call your mom, having a conversation without speaking aloud, done. iBrain. Think different. Directly download to your brain, from a brain near you. Soon.

Hehe, you one upped me for sure :)

We are joking around of course, but sometimes interesting innovation comes from weird ponderings.

I have an experimental cloud phone that has no CPU and uses an FPGA to directly transfer data from a VM in the cloud to the screen. It works, even on 4G but better on 5G. Also, I have been experimenting with transparent OLED.

My dream would be a device completely cloud based, and hence, unlimited processing and storage. The back of the transparent display would be optical sensors and it would use computational imaging in the cloud, no lenses needed. The audio who knows, MEMS I suppose.

I think the technology exists; would anyone want such a thing? Who knows, we have seen things like that in sci-fi movies of course.

Re: Design the next iPhone

#70
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Present (top right) → Download video (bottom centre).

Oh, the button does not show up for me :(

Looks to be a Firefox thing. I just tested in both Chrome and Safari and the download link was there. Not in Firefox tho
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