Please No!
I really feel bad for the guy that inspired this joke.
And all for an iPad 1.
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It was actually an iPad 2, my friend.
Please No!
I really feel bad for the guy that inspired this joke.
And all for an iPad 1.
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Wait... The... Lens pops out of the rear shell.... WHAT!?
Talk about sacrificing practicality over a sleek design.. Laying this on every surface will be a pain.
Hoping for a iPhone 6C = 5C body with 5s internals.
Best of both
Don´t want/need a phablet.
Hoping for a iPhone 6C = 5C body with 5s internals.
Best of both
Don´t want/need a phablet.
Care to explain how a 4.7" or even a 5.5" phone is a Phablet? As far as I know the smallest tablets out there are 7" in size, far larger than 5.5". So until they put a phone in a 7" tablet it's not really a Phablet. Every one of you big phone haters are way over dramatic. You'll buy the next iPhone and you know it. You just want something to bitch about because your life otherwise would be extremely boring.
Care to explain how a 4.7" or even a 5.5" phone is a Phablet? As far as I know the smallest tablets out there are 7" in size, far larger than 5.5". So until they put a phone in a 7" tablet it's not really a Phablet. Every one of you big phone haters are way over dramatic. You'll buy the next iPhone and you know it. You just want something to bitch about because your life otherwise would be extremely boring.
Care to explain how a 4.7" or even a 5.5" phone is a Phablet? As far as I know the smallest tablets out there are 7" in size, far larger than 5.5". So until they put a phone in a 7" tablet it's not really a Phablet. Every one of you big phone haters are way over dramatic. You'll buy the next iPhone and you know it. You just want something to bitch about because your life otherwise would be extremely boring.
No I'm not talking about the ten trillion cheap mockups.
Because no women wearing diamond rings have iPhones?
Who exactly would be the target audience for the iPhone Pro?
The serious professional smart phone user?
This is true. I know some engineers in Cupertino and they let me play with a prototype. I tried placing it on my flat desk and it didn't work - it actually hovered about an inch in the air above the desk. No matter what I did I couldn't get it to lay on the desk. Steve Jobs would never have allowed this. He was very pro-gravity.
Apple likes to get in on markets that are underdeveloped. Consider how much the iPhone camera is used and how few add-on lenses are available/marketed/advertised. This is definitely something Apple can swoop in on and take advantage of since this market is so undersaturated at the moment.
Sell them at Apple stores
Advertise them on their iPhone commercials
It will give iPhones a distinct advantage/feature that other smartphones don't have. At least according to most of the public. Definitely a way for them to turn what would at first seem like a disadvantage (protruding lens) into a feature people will want.
I tried placing it on my flat desk and it didn't work - it actually hovered about an inch in the air above the desk.
Liquidmetal is radio frequency transparent. Lends credence to NFC rumours?
Therefore, NFC antennas are not really antennas, in that no one cares about typical antenna parameters such as the radiation pattern. So how then do they work?
You may recall from your electric circuits classes that inductors can be made to couple together - that is, there exists mutual coupling. If the magnetic fields from one inductor pass near another inductor, an induced current will exist within the second inductor. This is contactless energy transfer - exactly what NFC requires.
Hence, an NFC antenna isn't an antenna at all - it is really just a big inductor. In general, the larger the inductance of the antenna can be made, the better it will perform.
Then buy the 4.7" model.
My retina ipad mini seems to have a plastic logo.
Mine has a highly polished metal insert. It's not aluminum and more reflective than any metal I've seen other than chrome. It's also, unlike the aluminum surrounding it, totally devoid of scratches.
I'm holding the most recent iPad mini retina in my hand. It's clearly a plastic apple logo. Not only does it feel like plastic, and make a plastic sound when you tap it, but hooking up my meter it is not electrically conductive.
The aluminium shell is opaque to radio frequency, which means that there needs to be a way for the transmissions in and out of the case. As plastic is permeable to radio frequency electromagnetic waves, they used a plastic logo and positioned the antenna for the WIFI-module behind it.
Liquid metal is not a metal in the conventional sense, one feature of it being not opaque to radio frequency transmissions. Which means they decided to use it on the newest iPads for the Apple logo.
All of this Apple Logo antenna placement problems do not make sense on the cellular data versions of the newest iPads, because they come with a plastic covered cellular modem antenna window at the top of the case. But probably in order to keep the internal layout as cost effective as possible, they kept the WIFI-antenna at the same place.
Do you have an iPhone 3GS sim tool made of liquidmetal like I do? Compare the two. It is not plastic.
False on the claim that there needs to be plastic for the wi-fi signals to transmit. The first iteration of the non-retina iPad mini had its Apple logo polished into the aluminum with no plastic windows. Also, the 4th gen iPod touch was completely steel on the reverse -- with no plastic window.
Yes, I have the sim tool (the dark gray liquidmetal one). That's nothing at all like the material that forms the apple logo.
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The antennas need to transmit through plastic, glass, or connected to external metal (i.e. external antennas). They won't transmit well through metal. It's basic electrical engineering.
Then you are the only one. If it's metal it should conduct electricity. It doesn't.
I have never seen a plastic with this reflectivity or scratch resistance. Also, Liquid Metal is an amorphous solid, not a crystalline solid that would reduce it's electrical conductance.
How do you explain the products I mentioned, then -- iPad mini, first generation (until fall 2013) and iPod touch 4th gen with completely metal shells? The liquidmetal sim tool is silver, not dark gray.
They won't listen, don't bother. It is not plastic, it is liquidmetal. I also find it humorous that people are claiming to have the liquidmetal 3Gs sim tool but fail to realize that the liquidmetal sim tools are silver, not dark gray.
I have never seen a plastic with this reflectivity or scratch resistance. Also, Liquid Metal is an amorphous solid, not a crystalline solid that would reduce it's electrical conductance.