iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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by jason_shah • 13 years ago

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MrFoof• 13 years ago

Would the aluminum + carbon fiber be a weave of aluminum mixed in with the carbon weave (similar to Pagani's carbotanium for the Huayra's body panels), or an aluminum galvanization process on the surface of the carbon fiber (similar to the galvanized carbon fiber in the Porsche 918 Spyder)?

durkie3• 13 years ago

I did my master's thesis on aluminum/carbon fiber composites and typically they mean infiltrating liquid aluminum through weaves of carbon fiber.

But these materials are hard as hell to make. Carbon and aluminum do not get along for a variety of reasons, and aluminum/carbon composites remain a pie-in-the-sky concept. One of the ways they make Al/C composites now is through a process called squeeze casting, whereby they just force molten aluminum (>660C) to infiltrate a fiber preform at super high pressures. And even then IIRC their properties usually fall well short of theoretical. These are not things nature wants us to put together (at least not yet).

derefr3• 13 years ago

How much additional effort is that on top of the current process of making gorilla glass, though? I believe it already requires some mighty temperatures+pressures.

vl• 13 years ago

Well, then in this iPhone they should use carbon fiber titanium instead!

LaSombra• 13 years ago

I fail to comprehend this kind of fetish

OrsenPike• 13 years ago

Not gonna lie, I would buy that in a heartbeat.

cldr• 13 years ago

The only way to create a true edge-to-edge display is to remove the edge all together.

And moisture is the essence of wetness.

aegiso• 13 years ago

But wetness is the essence of beauty.

Quotes aside, I've imagined this kind of edgeless design to be where things are headed, and it certainly looks beautiful.

jotm4• 13 years ago

It's more likely that the next iPhone or Galaxy S will have the home button removed (finally), the speaker squeezed as far to the top edge as possible and the screen will fit all that new empty space, with 1-2mm borders.

That's doable in the next 1-2 years, this design isn't.

jodrellblank4• 13 years ago

If you remove the edge, you get a cylindrical display.

stfsbrb• 13 years ago

The icons in those home screen mockups look a heck of a lot better than the real ones:

http://apple.com/ios/ios7

tammer• 13 years ago

I think it's what will most likely happen over time - elements and affordances from the old design will bleed into the stark minimalism of the new one (along with new ideas). The iOS 7 design is minimal in order to be a blank slate.

gurkendoktor2• 13 years ago

The home screen icons were the highlight for me. The hardware mockup is full of hyperbole, but the icon set seems very humble in contrast. It is much closer to Apple's established branding than the real (beta) iOS 7. This is the kind of icon set that could be introduced without making all existing icons seem out of place.

And it looks gorgeous on a black iPhone (mockup) because it's not as light.

joeblau• 13 years ago

The design looks amazing, even though most people will probably have the device covered up with a phone cover. Also retina 2 sounds like i would need 3 versions of every image in my app which is getting to be a bit much.

derefr3• 13 years ago

Also retina 2 sounds like i would need 3 versions of every image in my app which is getting to be a bit much.

I don't see why; for the edges, I think it'd look fine to just stretch the border-edge pixel out to infinity. All taps/gestures on the "sides" could be reported as occurring at the edge pixels. You'd need to modify your view-controller logic (to do something with all these edge-taps), but not your view.

bebna• 13 years ago

3 versions of every image

In Android you have to use 4 different density versions of your images to support the majority. And in BB10 you think about to differnt formats which have different artistic rules to them (you can't use the rule of thirds in a square, it doesn't work well).

So you should better expect screen size/density/aspect ratio differences in future or you will probably regret it.

cclogg• 13 years ago

On a related note, I feel like this issue (non-retina, retina, iphone 5 version, ipad version, older iOS support, etc) and the over-saturated app store have really stifled the indie development world. It takes a lot more effort to make a nicely packaged app today than in 2008-2009, and then you launch on the store and you're just one in 800,000 or w/e.

To me, it's kind of like how the first people on Youtube now have millions of views, but good luck starting a new YT account today...

alexfringes• 13 years ago

Marco Arment seems to think that this fall will be as close as we can get back to 08/09 for a while: http://www.marco.org/2013/06/11/fertile-ground

Moto7451• 13 years ago

It's already at three versions of many images if you're still supporting the iPhone 3G in addition to the Retina 3.5 and 4 inch screens.

Where possible I've moved my artwork flow from using PNGs for everything to translating PSD files into stretchable image slices and custom UIViews crafted in IB/Objective C via Core Image & Core Graphics. It's more time consuming at first but pays off in the end.

lumens• 13 years ago

Everything about this design, from the edge to edge glass, to the Lightening + Magsafe connector is super appealing, but it's too much of a jump for Apple. Their design style is much slower and more iterative than this.

Arguably the biggest hardware leap so far was the 3gs -> 4, and that was limited to an aesthetic re-envisioning, a camera improvement, screen resolution upgrade, and processor bump.

This design showcases improvements that Apple would likely spread out over 3 generations: everything listed for their biggest leap above, plus new input mechanisms, new connector, significantly less heft, and waterproofing (!!).

Don't get me wrong -- I'd buy this in an instant, but it looks more like iPhone 8, than 6.

Finbarr• 13 years ago

I think a bigger design leap is from the existing Mac Pro range to the new Mac Pro. From this: http://bit.ly/13VYioH [1] to this: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

[1] Apple store is currently down, this is a link to an image.

mynameisvlad6• 13 years ago

That Magsafe Lightning concept would never work. Not only is there not enough space to fit powerful enough magnets, not only is the Lightning connector 8-pin, but one of the only reasons MagSafe even works is that laptops are strong enough to still be in the same place if tugged slightly. Your phone will now not only be tugged along with the cord, but will then disconnect more easily and fly across the room.

derefr3• 13 years ago

It could work... if they gave the connector a really big magnetic "ring" that held to the entirety of the bottom of the frame, not just the bit in the center. Maybe if they figured out a way to make the speakers also magnets... ;)

mynameisvlad6• 13 years ago

But the other issues will still plague it. It either won't disconnect, or will disconnect to easily.

aroman2• 13 years ago

I disagree. Just build a strong magnet in there (as was suggested, maybe via the speaker). The advantage of the connector would not be the disconnect-on-trip feature, but rather convenience for plugging and unplugging. Namely, it's a lot easier to just have the cord snap it place magnetically than to futz around with the small metal tip[0].

You're assuming it'd either be too weak or too strong. They would calibrate it until it was "just right", as they do (or try to do) with pretty much all of their ergonomics decisions.

[0] Anecdotally, I own both a MagSafe 2 device and an iPhone 5.

minor_nitwit2• 13 years ago

Or just use wireless charging and sync.

jblock• 13 years ago

Regardless, I still don't want a big magnet in my pocket

mynameisvlad6• 13 years ago

I don't know about you, but a Lightning connector is one of the easiest I've used. There's no "futzing around".

Bud2• 13 years ago

This objection doesn't make any sense. The status quo is that if you tug on a Lightning cable, your phone will be tugged along with it, and will likely fall off the surface it is on. If you make it a MagSafe connector with appropriately weak holding force, and do the same thing, your phone will be tugged less hard, and will thus have less of a chance to fall off the surface it is on. It can't help but be an improvement, even if it's not a perfect solution.

The objection that actually does make sense is to point out that Lightning is a) reversible and b) has 8 separate data contacts on each side. It's not just a power connector. Can't really duplicate this with MagSafe or anything similar.

mynameisvlad6• 13 years ago

However, if you tug on it, there is a chance that it will not disconnect with a Lightning cable. There's still a good amount of force needed to actually pull and disconnect the cable. This means that if you, say, trip and fall, there's still a chance the cable will still be connected and limits the amount of distance the phone will travel.

With a Magsafe-like cable, it'll disconnect after the tugging happens, and if the pull from the tug is strong enough, it'll cause it to potentially go a greater distance, since there's no cable connected.

lttlrck• 13 years ago

The magnets do need to be strong enough to ensure a good electrical connection.

jodrellblank4• 13 years ago

Not only is there not enough space to fit powerful enough magnets

Make it an electromagnet powered by the USB host/power supply, and use the iPhone accelerometer (or more than one) to detect being yanked by the attached cord and disable the magnet to disconnect easily.

(or do what everyone else is and have an inductive charging matt with no connector).

mynameisvlad6• 13 years ago

In order to save space, you suggest... Electromagnets? That would require even more space.

mietek• 13 years ago

The entire discussion about MagSafe Lightning is pointless. A truly innovative iPhone 6 would use wireless charging.

spartango• 13 years ago

Actually the HP Veer had this design, with magnets and pogo-like pins. As noted, however, the Veer's USB cable is a bit bulky and has fewer pins.

http://www.webosnation.com/hands-on-hp-veer-s-ridiculous-hea...

mtgx• 13 years ago

1) Not very original

2) Not going to happen

brentm• 13 years ago

I think that design looks amazing. I like the concept of MagSafe connector but the world would shit a brick if they changed it again that quickly.

jrockway• 13 years ago

I love the idea of wrapping the display around the side of the phone and having touch sensors to detect when you're holding your phone. I have this problem where I'm holding the phone with one hand and trying to press something with my thumb. It doesn't register as a touch because part of my hand is contacting the front of the screen, causing my action to be interpreted as some sort of two-finger gesture. With accurate information about where my hand is, this would be easy to fix.

One question: why not a 1920x1080 screen? The Galaxy S4 already has that resolution.

wahnfrieden• 13 years ago

iOS 7 solves this to some degree by letting you swipe from the edge in place of tapping the navigation buttons in the titlebar.

minor_nitwit2• 13 years ago

I believe the ipad mini already has touch rejection of this sort.

jotm4• 13 years ago

Seriously, why do you need 1920x1080? 1280x720 on a 5 inch display is great, even 960x540 on a 4.7 inch display (Optimus L9) still looks great, I just don't see the point unless you want to deplete your battery as fast as possible...

slacka• 13 years ago

Yes, Enough with the PPI race. On a 4" or 5" display give me 720p and more battery life over 1080p.

If the manufacturer does not opt for the top of the line GPU, games suffer too, since by doubling the resolution, you need to quadruple the pixels rendered. Apple made this mistake with the iPad 3 and iPhone 4, both which performed worse than their predecessors.

This PPI race reminds me of the megapixel race in cameras. Where dumb consumers think a "higher spec" is better when it actually gives them a fuzzier screen (pentile OLED over non-pentile, not in LCD), worse battery life, and worse performance in games.

rudedogg• 13 years ago

Slightly off topic but if interested in learning more about DPI/fonts check out http://billhillsblog.blogspot.com/ and http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/2-0-5-typo

gaze• 13 years ago

Why do designers pull numbers out of their ass to make a concept sound more appealing? "Dual quad core processor!" yeah, well my concept has dual octocore processors and my concept will be liquid cooled! I mean phase change cooled!

zanny• 13 years ago

Plasma ultra cooling! Probably still need to tack "gamer" on so you can double the price and use cheaper materials, as long as it is black and red.

AndrewDucker• 13 years ago

I'm reminded of the Samsung prototype on the left here: http://www.mobilephones.com/news/samsung-reveal-flexible-pho...

where the screen comes round the edge of the surface. Pretty, and a lot more likely to be in production this decade.

conradfr• 13 years ago

And then you put a cover / bumper ...

rayiner2• 13 years ago

I don't understand the point of these mockups unless they have an actual prototype. It's easy to hand-wave about how great a product will be that can't be built. The borderless glass is probably a non-starter because of chipping. And why would you make an aluminum/carbon fiber composite? Aluminum and carbon fiber both serve the same purpose in a composite structure. You'd use something like a metal-matrix aluminum composite instead, set in resin.

chrisrhoden• 13 years ago

It's really difficult for me to look at something like this as someone with even the barest of comprehensions as to how complicated some of this would be to even do, much less well enough that it would make sense to put in a consumer product this year.

Oh, you're going to make the screen out of graphene? My mockups are exactly the same as yours, but instead of aluminum my case is made of diamond. I've solved the chipping problem!

To be clear, I think that these are really attractive visual mockups with some interesting concepts, but I have seen literally every one of them before elsewhere.

DigitalJack• 13 years ago

The point of imagination is that it is not limited by constraints. How can you envision the future if you are limited by the constraints of today?

Steve Jobs is quoted in the 80's as saying that they aspire to make a computer that is essentially today's macbook or ipad.[1] It most certainly was impossible at the time.

I sure like mine though.

You know what you get when you limit yourself to the constraints of right now? The IBM PC Jr.

[1] "Apple's strategy is really simple. What we want to do is we want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes. That's what we want to do and we want to do it this decade." http://lifelibertytech.com/2012/10/02/the-lost-steve-jobs-sp...

starky• 13 years ago

I shake my head every time I see these because as someone that works as a product designer I know what isn't even feasible to do. These artists create work that has no basis in the real world, and add positively ignorant statements about the construction and capabilities of these devices.

I see comments like, "Carbon fiber alone is perfectly rigid and doesn't bend." and can only shake my head about how stupid this statement is. This particular mockup is one of the worst I have ever seen for being unrealistic. Feel free to create industrial design concepts, but at the very least don't comment on features that are unrealistic.

sadrobot• 13 years ago

How long until apple's lawyers shut this down for using their trademarks all over the place without permission?

b1daly• 13 years ago

Here's an idea. Make a phone with a case that is strong enough to withstand the drops that inevitably happen! Putting so much effort into cool looking things that have to be covered by dorky cases is an illustration of the irrational at the heart of tech fetishes.

jotm4• 13 years ago

Yes! That's exactly why I would love a slightly more rugged Galaxy S4 Active - what's the point of an edge-to-edge display if you're going to crack it on the first drop (which happens even if you're super careful and have ninja reflexes)...

adrusi• 13 years ago

I've dropped my iPhone 4 from a meter high onto surfaces such as wood, tile and asphalt more times than I'm willing to admit, and I've experienced no cracks. I don't know if I'm just astoundingly lucky, or if my particular device is just very well built, but I am satisfied with the state of phone durability at least from my limited experience.

jamesmccann• 13 years ago

96GB drive? Seems fishy to me.

Bud2• 13 years ago

It seems fishy to you to do a 50% storage improvement, when we just saw a 100% storage improvement to 128GB on the iPad?

Not fishy at all. Quite plausible. If anything, it's reasonably likely that there will be MORE of an improvement than the concept predicts, in this case.

mynameisvlad6• 13 years ago

That's a particularly odd configuration of flash chips, though. That's why you don't see 96GB SSDs very often. Generally, they're found in powers of two.

swalsh• 13 years ago

Honestly, that's the most realistic aspect of the whole concept.

geuis• 13 years ago

Folks, stop bitching and complaining about this or that idea being good/bad/impractical etc, etc. It's a designer's demo portfolio work.

http://www.johnnyplaid.com

Designers do this stuff because they have ideas about how devices and interfaces can change and they explore those ideas. It doesn't seem to me that Johnny is making claims about inside information. He's using his visual talents to create mockups of what might be possible in the future.

The medium is different, but the process isn't any different than sci-fi writers setting stories in the future or me making UI wireframes for an application. It's just ways of exploring what could be done.

The last point is to realize that this is most likely just personal portfolio work. Some of us have github profiles and others have PSD's. Just think about the exposure Johnny is getting out of this and how it might get him more work in the future. That's the best reason for him to make this.

sbierwagen2• 13 years ago

If this is an advertisement, then all it advertises is that he is incompetent at industrial design.

pallandt• 13 years ago

I can understand the need to re-design something in attempts to get exposure, I think someone attempted a Facebook redesign relatively recently on Behance and they got a ton of exposure from that, but this iPhone concept is completely impractical, starting with that screen curving over the borders (fragile, slippery, higher costs etc). I pretty much agree, if he was so committed to the idea of a 'better' iPhone, a little more research into industrial design wouldn't have hurt.

arrrg2• 13 years ago

Yeah, well he is not an industrial designer, doesn’t advertise himself as one and doesn’t sell his industrial design skills. Which he doesn’t have. Doesn’t even claim to have. Not even a little bit.

He is a fucking graphic designer and that’s exactly how you should judge this.

danso• 13 years ago

I dunno, my negative reaction to it isn't that the designer is breaking the limits of feasible materials and mechanical engineering...it's that, given no such limits, the designer proceeds to create something not terribly original or interesting.

But to be honest, what really annoyed me was a designer who proposes a Retina2 type screen yet in his showcase work here, uses low resolution fonts. It's just hard to give any serious thought to a designer who overlooks one of the most critical -- yet trivially easy to do right -- aspects of a prototype design.

Niten• 13 years ago

I dunno, my negative reaction to it isn't that the designer is breaking the limits of feasible materials and mechanical engineering...it's that, given no such limits, the designer proceeds to create something not terribly original or interesting.

I agree with this wholeheartedly.

My secondary negative reaction to this, though, is that I think there's a certain conceit in putting this design together and calling it the "iPhone 6". Whatever merits these drawings might have, they could be showcased just as well by making up an arbitrary new name for it and calling it an evolution in smartphone design in general — rather than hijack Apple's branding just to draw attention.

coldtea• 13 years ago

the designer proceeds to create something not terribly original or interesting.

Yes, god forbit he also being somewhat pragmatic...

ChuckMcM3• 13 years ago

Perhaps the response would be similar if he had a design for two headed baby clothes, or superhero outfits.

There is this notion of the 'uncanny valley' where a rendering/expression of a human gets too close to the real thing. There is a similar space in design where dissonance between what is possible and what is shown jars the senses.

Escher used this to great effect, creating scenes that you eyes initially perceived as 'normal' but began to sense a 'wrongness' or 'otherness' which as you looked more closely became apparent.

This would have worked better as an exercise if he had done an advertising type pitch for a tri-corder or what ever the Stargate equivalent is. But by using the next generation of a product that is already out there and known for its design, and adding in features which are currently science fiction (and physically impossible [1]) the designer causes the brain to go "urrrk?" and the whole thing collapses.

[1] For example, iPhones use a touch screen based on capacitance. Graphene is a conductor. A transparent graphene cover would shield the phone from being able to see any change in electric field (it would, at best, be diffuse across the conductor) and render the touch screen inoperable. Try this fun experiment, put a piece of paper over an iPad and watch your gestures go right "thru" it, put a piece of foil over your ipad, and note how you can do anything.

mayank• 13 years ago

You may be taking this a bit too literally. I saw it as a designer's attempt to build marketing for a fictional device that is fun to imagine. If you've ever read science fiction, there's a certain joy in imagining new devices with capabilities that currently seem impossible. Without this sort of imagination, like the tricorder that you point out, a whole lot of contemporary engineers might have never found this inspiration.

Graphene isn't the best choice, but the point was to illustrate a currently unseen level of tensile strength, not as a blueprint for manufacture. Wouldn't that be a fun device to have?

We tend to ignore humor on HN, but this is one person's imagination at work, and I applaud that.

millerm• 13 years ago

Thanks! Great response. Too many people arguing about nothing. I wish I had those skills. I'm a software engineer and am in no way a designer. I've mucked with so many design tools throughout my career and it just never really clicked. I can't draw so that might be a contributing factor.

Anyway, dude has some skills.

gregsq• 13 years ago

It's a hodge podge of loose notions, and is pretty well techno babble, especially considering the materials hyperbole.

The screen however is very reminiscent of Atmel's XSense touch sensor, which I'm keen to play with[1].

The wolf in sheeps clothes special pleading I'll leave alone.

http://www.atmel.com/microsite/xsense/default.aspx

na853• 13 years ago

It's so silly, though. Does this guy work/speak for Apple?

Is he an electrical engineer who can say for certain that the retina display can actually be manufactured in this edgy way?

No, he's just a guy with Adobe Illustrator.

So... why should I care what he thinks?

ruchirablog• 13 years ago

Retina display huh? Retina is just another marketing word. Apple's retina display was surpassed by consumer technology more than a year ago. GS4 has a 441ppi screen while the Iphone 5 "Retina" display is just 326ppi.

acterizk• 13 years ago

Perhaps because he has provided something to consider... - Edge touch with a new suite of gestures and gesture recognizers? - Side touch without obscuring the UI? - Sideways image projection via total internal reflection?

woah2• 13 years ago

I used to be in school for ID (switched to the web), and stuff like this annoyed me. You enter contests, really think through what can be done with current tech and what compromises can be made while still preserving the beauty of the design, and some asshole enters with something that is physically impossible.

wmeredith• 13 years ago

Yeah, as usual HN is taking itself a touch too seriously. This is the design equivalent of re-creating $nineties-video-game or whatever else in $modern-language. It's an exercise used to stretch a designer creative and technical legs.

jodrellblank4• 13 years ago

With that design of touch sensors on the edge, it would open it up to support being used as a chording keyboard in the style of the classic DataEgg - http://xaphoon.com/dataegg/DataEggNewShape.jpg

tomphoolery• 13 years ago

This is awesome! Very well made, I hope someone from Apple HR is watching...

jasonwatkinspdx2• 13 years ago

I don't understand why so many designers attempt to push the limits of material science while clearly being almost entirely ignorant of it. For example, carbon fiber composites do bend. You can make springs out of them. Also, if you could figure out how to manufacture graphene at a scale large enough to use them on iphone screens you'd probably win the Nobel.

You can't push the boundary of what's possible without already understanding the physics and engineering of the existing boundary. Otherwise you're just another kid with a pretend jetpack made out of 2 liter soda bottles. It's fun, and perhaps praiseworthy for a kid... but as an adult you look a bit silly claiming the design is something real.

waylonk• 13 years ago

I don't understand why so many Science Fiction authors attempt push the limits of material science while clearly being almost entirely ignorant of it. For example, carbon fiber composites do bend. You can make springs out of them. Also, if you could figure out how to manufacture anti-gravity thrusters at a scale large enough to use them on a space ship you'd probably win the Nobel.

jasonwatkinspdx2• 13 years ago

Product Design != Science Fiction

dlsym• 13 years ago

Won't happen.

ricardobeat• 13 years ago

The icons! Those icons look great, for the most part. Still 'flat' while keeping the iOS personality.

kyro2• 13 years ago

I would highly recommend the majority of you here to stay away from fashion shows and car conventions if this is your reaction to this concept.

shinratdr3• 13 years ago

I think it's safe to assume that's pretty much the case for the majority of us to begin with.

kyro2• 13 years ago

Which is really a shame. They're typically great fun, and potentially inspirational.

scep12• 13 years ago

Some nice ideas in there, but I have a few objections: On a practical level, this would be more better described as a prototype for the iPhone 8 + iOS X ... or something a bit further out than next year. Is that too nit-picky? Probably. As far as the aesthetics go - it looks almost exactly like the HTC One, albeit without a bezel. For a product designer with imaginative ideas about nearly everything else, I would have hoped for a more interesting enclosure design.

kenkam• 13 years ago

It is obvious that this is not an attempt at trying to design a plausible iPhone. It is an attempt to show case his design chops. Unfortunately, I can't give him full marks on his design, I was put off by his "Accidental Gesture Recognition" paragraph. It is a short paragraph of 7 lines, 3 of which are hyphenated.

Pedantry aside, I think the mockups look great.

arms• 13 years ago

Very impressive - I'd love to have something that looked that damn cool. The wrap around screen kept making me think of infinity pools.

mkr-hn• 13 years ago

The iPhone, as boring as it is, at least has a distinct look. This is a rectangle with beveled corners.

coin• 13 years ago

Yet his site doesn't allow pinchzoom on mobile devices

bittired• 13 years ago

A neat design here, but I'd rather see designs that are more creative. What about an iShirt whose color could change via bluetooth from your phone, depending on how many unread emails you have?

And the quote about graphene was distracting to me because I know for certain that Apple would not have a layer of graphene that would be as thick as Saran Wrap. That's crazy talk- too expensive. I know he wasn't saying it would be that thick, but that was the first thing that came to mind: "no way they would do that".

shinratdr3• 13 years ago

Someone said on Twitter the other day, I wonder what UI designers could come up with if they weren't hamstrung by the fact that it needs to be built by a developer? I can't help but think of exactly that whenever I see one of these hardware mockups. This is what designers can do when they aren't hamstrung by the need to actually have it built by hardware engineers.

An interesting intellectual exercise and a beautiful design, but that only applies if you think it could be real, or else it's the hardware equivalent of a Minority Report interface. I just don't see this in my hand within the next 20 years. That makes it easy to be pessimistic.

In reference to the top comment, that's why good Sci Fi tends to focus on how the technology affects the future society and interpersonal relationships, not simply marvelling at the technology itself. Calling this the "iPhone 6" mockup and not simply a future phone or even iPhone puts a certain expectation on it, as does the mention of specs that would only be impressive for a year or two.

You can't have it both ways. Either it's an entirely theoretical mockup that can't be criticized and it's simply design work or I'm supposed to imagine it as the iPhone that's on the market two years from now with the specs listed on that page.

woah2• 13 years ago

I am an interface designer, and the constraints imposed by those mean ol' developers are because they are forced to think through logical flows to implement them.

The perfect ui would be a device that you wear in a small ring that reads your mind to find out exactly what you want, and using superhuman ai, strategizes the perfect way to get it for you.

There. I did it.

shinratdr3• 13 years ago

For the record that's kind of my point. You need to have a balance and "it's just a portfolio demo" rings hollow to me.

TallboyOne• 13 years ago

Is this a joke? Lol, how are you supposed to use this with one hand. The design (from a presentation perspective) is beautiful, the idea from a practicality standpoint is 100% useless. I couldn't tell if this was serious until I was like 75% of the way through.

synor• 13 years ago

This is not even a good portfolio piece. The typography is really bad.

jl6• 13 years ago

Dishonest linkbait headline.

scoyote• 13 years ago

Ок. It's cool! Do same OS cool concept and I am ready to buy.

Tloewald• 13 years ago

Here's where the guy loses me: the sample movie on the phone is Lone Ranger.

alan_cx• 13 years ago

It does look great, but Im not sure my hands and fingers would fare well if the edges got chipped. A chipped edge would not be enough to pay lots to get it fixed, where as a shattered screen is. As a result, I see minor injury being a bit of a problem.

ksec• 13 years ago

I think the Calculation for Screen Size were off. ( Unless I am Wrong ) Assuming no changes in Resolution Scale to iPhone 5, a Display that is 5.86cm Width would be 4.7" Diagonal.

Which incidentally fits in with the latest rumours on 4.7" display. Um....

cseelus• 13 years ago

Wow, some of the reactions here are really petty-minded to me.

This guy just made mockups of a future iteration he imagined, of a product he probably uses and likes. Something designers have published to the interwebs for years. It can be fun and a nice way to improve on your skills.

It don't get what justifies the hate some people here show up with. If you don't like it, just skip it and enjoy something else.

joesb2• 13 years ago

I like pure design concept, without regarding to technical limitation.

I like pure technology design concept without regarding to economical consideration.

This design is just plain form design plus some wanna-be technical terms.

JohnDotAwesome• 13 years ago

This would be the coolest god damn phone. If Apple made the smaller form factor again with a slightly bigger screen, I'd be on that. I hate the wonky rectangle of the 5.

Thanks, Johnny. This stuff is fun to think about.

iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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