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Alleged iPhone 16 Pro Max CAD Model Reveals Significantly Taller Display
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Marketing, apple is running out of things to get people to upgrade
You'll no doubt be interested in the "Fold" model when it comes out.
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It’s not special. But previous iPhones (since the X) allowed for it, so games and other apps, as well as some YouTube videos, came to be designed for it. Android phones also use that aspect ratio. It was actually LG who first released an 18:9 smartphone, before the iPhone X.
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As your illustration shows, when they brought out the 14pro, they increased the height of the screen to allow for the island so that the content area below did not change. Yes, they did that from the beginning.My theory is that the main motivation here is to reinstate the 18:9 unobstructed area that the notch previously provided and that the island is currently cutting into:
This may be an indication that the island will be less temporary than Apple initially planned, or else they should have done that from the beginning.
Yes, it was brought up in previous discussions. What people found, when they looked at the specs, was that the screens on the 14Pro were made taller by the same amount as the island grew. The result was that the content area beneath the island was the same as the area under the notch. Win win.
The pill cuts into 18:9 videos: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...nd-notch.2360236/?post=31507789#post-31507789
I already can’t reach the top of the phone. I’m going to need a Fing-Longer.
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Do you guys not use the Reachability feature?
Reach the top of the iPhone screen with one hand
Use Reachability to lower the top half of the iPhone screen and make it more easily accessible with one hand.
support.apple.com
I do like the idea of a bigger screen and bigger battery. The screen ratio is going to make it worse to watch videos, but the screen definitely would be too wide if they didn't change the ratio. I am concerned how manageable it will be though. The 12/13/14 Pro Maxes are already pushing my boundaries a bit, though I adjusted better than I expected.
I'm scared to know the starting price of this model though.
I'm scared to know the starting price of this model though.
Videos designed to fill flagship smartphone screens of recent years. 18:9 smartphone screens were the hip new thing in 2017, so some hip YouTubers started to adopt that format.
Do you guys not use the Reachability feature?
Reach the top of the iPhone screen with one hand
Use Reachability to lower the top half of the iPhone screen and make it more easily accessible with one hand.support.apple.com
I’m reading that in the tone of “do you guys not have phones?!” but yeah I do actually use it but the phone is already hard to use one (right) handed. And of course it pops back up after every selection. Guess I’ll have to use it more.
It’s always seemed a little hacky though I’m not sure how they could make it better. If they keep getting taller they need more ideas like that.
This is so they have a reason to eventually release a foldable iPhone …
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iPhone 5 was taller, iPhone X was taller, so this should have come this year with the phone 15! 😬
Hardly, remember when people used to hold these giant things up to their heads? And these only made phone calls, nothing else.
A smartphone today is a portable computer in your pocket, a minuscule increase in height isn’t going even be felt.
But it will be a flip fold, to double the height over the previous model.
So 20:9 eh ? Just like most android phones i suppose
Also time to share this video ...10 years ago...how time flies
Also time to share this video ...10 years ago...how time flies
That’s nice, but one-handed utility of 13 mini is still pretty unmatched. 