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Design the next iPhone

neal.fun

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Re: Design the next iPhone

#71
I put the power button at the top so that I don't accidentally take a screenshot when I want to change the volume. Somebody please give me a design job at Apple.

I still don't understand why Apple moved the power button to the side opposite the volume buttons.

Re: Design the next iPhone

#72
Am I the only one who opened the tool and thought: "this, this is perfect, add nothing!"?

Why isn't there a phone yet with no ports or power plugs of any kind (wireless charging and software power/reset), flush rear camera, hidden front camera?

It feels like that's the inevitable end of the current evolutionary tree, and all the technology is there and reasonably economical.

Re: Design the next iPhone

#73

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.

Now presenting the iPhone "oops all cameras"

Re: Design the next iPhone

#76

I put the power button at the top so that I don't accidentally take a screenshot when I want to change the volume. Somebody please give me a design job at Apple. I still don't understand why Apple moved the power button to the side opposite the volume buttons.

Aren't the power and volume buttons switched there? The long one is volume, no?

Re: Design the next iPhone

#77

I put the power button at the top so that I don't accidentally take a screenshot when I want to change the volume. Somebody please give me a design job at Apple. I still don't understand why Apple moved the power button to the side opposite the volume buttons.

Heh. Incidentally I just finished my weekly "delete all the accidental screenshots" session.

Re: Design the next iPhone

#78

Am I the only one who opened the tool and thought: "this, this is perfect, add nothing!"? Why isn't there a phone yet with no ports or power plugs of any kind (wireless charging and software power/reset), flush rear camera, hidden front camera? It feels like that's the inevitable end of the current evolutionary tree, and all the technology is there and reasonably economical.

Meizu Zero

Re: Design the next iPhone

#79

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.

Apple Magic Mouse style!

Re: Design the next iPhone

#80

Am I the only one who opened the tool and thought: "this, this is perfect, add nothing!"? Why isn't there a phone yet with no ports or power plugs of any kind (wireless charging and software power/reset), flush rear camera, hidden front camera? It feels like that's the inevitable end of the current evolutionary tree, and all the technology is there and reasonably economical.

I posted that farther down in the thread. Yes, I thought the same thing.

Sorry for the repetition, but this is a little dream of mine.

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.

it would look like just a simple pane of glass

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