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Design the next iPhone

neal.fun

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Re: Design the next iPhone

#271

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Heh, I guess. My last two phones had the jack at the top, so it's instinctively where I put it. I do like being able to rest it on a surface while holding it vertically with an audio cable connected. But charging it at the same time from the other end is a little weird. I guess in an ideal world I'd put both ports at the top, but I don't think that's what you were going for :)

Top is the right place unless the fone flips itself. Or playing audio in a car is a pain. Even keeping a phone charged in a car is annoying now.

I put my phone into my pocket with the same orientation that it's in my hand, while using it. Hold phone, rotate arm down, stick in pocket. The phone is now upside down in my pocket. If the headphone jack were on the top, you would have to flip your phone first, when putting it in or pulling it out.

Re: Design the next iPhone

#273

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.

The comic Paper Girls by Bryan K Vaughn beat you by this much. The device is on the last page of: https://imagecomics.com/read/paper-girls

Re: Design the next iPhone

#274
I took it seriously when adding elements from the first page of the elements slider. Then... I scrolled to other pages with other available components and my sides went into the orbit.

Re: Design the next iPhone

#276
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Beta males mumbling about type-c this, buttons that. Replaceable battery... LOL. Here is what real consumers want: https://i.ibb.co/93dbrmJ/IMG-20220823-223304.jpg

I predict a future iPhone will have the entire back of the phone be a (smudgeproof) camera lens

Re: Design the next iPhone

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That would not work for Apple because the iPhone is basically a vending machine in your pocket. Owned by Apple.

On the contrary it would work perfectly for Apple, which still makes most of its money from hardware sales.

The fact that Apple is the only FAANG (MAANG?) company that primarily makes it’s money by producing cool products for people to buy is a terrible indictment on the state of our industry.

Re: Design the next iPhone

#278
No USB-C option that I could see. I currently have an Android with USB-C and a MacBook Air and having the same port for both devices is so luxurious when traveling. This plus an Anker charger/ battery hybrid means I never run out of juice and travel light.

https://www.anker.com/products/a1651 (no affiliation just a fan)

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