Posted on 09/28/2016 10:47:43 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Apple is using an office in Israel to develop hardware for the "iPhone 8," which is expected to be released next year with a radical redesign, according to an employee at the site.
Details on the iPhone 8 are scarce, but some reports, including this one from MacRumours, suggest that it will have an edge-to-edge display that removes the need for the top and bottom bezels where features like the fingerprint sensor and the front-facing camera are located.
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Yes. I've applied for a patent on my Never Lose Your iPhone Again technique.
On another topic, I think dumping the headphone jack was a bad move. I have enough things I need to keep charged up.
No worries. You can keep your Chevy Vega! And the 8-track that goes in it.
Your bad! The iphone is far from proprietary if you know how to ‘open’ it up. Having a complete set of power tools is key. Creating a jack hole only scratches the surface of ‘open’, theres a whole world out there if you know how to modify the iphone. I dont usually do this but Ill throw out a freebie....
The iphone can be reprogrammed quite easily by this simple method. First, gather the necessary materials and tools. Materials will be super glue and bits (from a bit bucket as they need to be clean, floor sweepings wont work). Tools are simple, a saw of some sort. First, very carefully saw the top 1/8th off the phone. You must be careful and make a clean straight cut! Next pour the bits into the newly exposed opening. The more bits you pour in the better so dont skimp! Very quickly super glue the top back on so no bits escape. This is why the cut must be nearly perfect b/c the super glue wont fill a ragged cut. Let the glue harden for a bit, say 30mins. Now vigourously shake the phone. This results in reordering the bits and hence reprogramming. This step may need to be repeated until the phone works properly so dont be hasty or give up prematurely....hang in there b/c the reward will be great. Voila, you now have a reprogrammed iphone capable of functions most only dream of!!! ;)
Sadly, my bit bucket, /dev/null, seems to be a one way port. I can dump craploads of stuff in there, but can’t seem to get anything to come out. On the other hand /dev/random seems to produce infinite amount of clean bits that is useful for all kinds of things.
Apple keeps you on the foreskin of technology.
“Is this too important to give the job to American engineers?”
If I am not mistaken, a lot of processor design is done in Isreal. I know for a fact a few of the higher end Intel processors were designed there.
I think it comes down to both talent and experience. There aren’t many here in the USA that can do the job anymore since a lot of our engineers capable of designing high end microprocessors moved on to other kinds of ASICs (there’s more money/opportunity there). I dabbled in it myself a while ago, but fell in love with FPGAs and image processing applications :-).
Many CPU architects seemed to be from Isreal and moved a lot of that design from the USA to there. Some of the best network processor designs to date have come from Isreal.
Don’t tell that to the idiots that hate the Jewish people because angry old communists/national socialists/etc tell them to do so :-).
It works. It's non-proprietary. It's cheap. You can't push people into forced hardware upgrade cycles with minor, non-backwards compatible software tweaks (and this is probably the real reason some manufacturers would like to see it go).
If I were an Apple shareholder, I'd be asking why they don't bring out a new model every month! The lemmings will buy them, and profits will rocket 12-fold! Those Apple slackers obviously don't know how to make a buck.
Shucks, you'll just have to use the really nice Lightning earbuds they include with the phone. Or you could use the Lightning to 1/8" stereo adapter they include with the phone.
Or you could just shut your pie hole and stop spreading misinformation about a product you will never use.
OR - you can read what I wrote - you cannot charge and use the adapter at the same time. Sucks, doesn’t it?
Reading is fundamental!
Some people don’t want to replace very nice headphones for inferior sounding wireless. And some of them don’t want to stick a battery on their head for hours at a time. Not to mention, my house is running out of electric jacks. I am surprised at the lack of development in parallel wired chargers. Just string up multiple devices to one continuous wire. I use a parallel power cord to power multiple guitar foot petals. Similar daisy chain should be possible to charge numerous devices off one socket though I am no electrical engineer, and I know each device draws various voltage.
I do have some USB chargers you can plug several devices in at once. Charging a phone, a headset, a computer/tablet may sound feasible and it is - 4 UBS cables to 4 devices all plugged into one socket. It works, provided all the devices are adaptable to USB sockets, and that you don’t have 4 other people in the house all trying to do the same thing at once from the same socket. And generally a mess if you need to move them. You don’t like headphone wires, but you did not eliminate a wire net of charging wires. Home, office, travel, car you may net +3 wires overall.
Though I agree with you, more than once I’ve sent my phone flying across airplane aisle thanks to headphone wires getting caught on armrests and sling-shooting the phone 10 feet across the aisle. And I’ve fatally bent 2 plugs in the last 3 months the same way (airplane jacks). Fortunately I am handy enough to fix those. I haven’t yet resorted to stringing the wire under my shirt but on some headphones the wire disconnects from the headset so it is feasible to disconnect the bulkiest parts and pack them away when not in use. And speaking of airplanes, how do you use the wireless headphones to watch the movies on a plane? Perish the thought of having to use the airline supplied headphones, let alone paying $2 for them!
I’ve had my LG G3 for > 2 years and still love it - esp the BRIGHT, HIGH RESOLUTION screen (an important feature for me) which surpasses Apple.
agree. My wife and I both have the g4 now.
Does the G4 offer any noticeable & significant improvements vs the G3?
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