I’m ready for a new iPhone design
I love my iPhone 11 Pro. I love its stainless steel frame. I love its matte back glass. And I love its gorgeous OLED panel, notch and all. But I would be lying if I said the design hasn’t grown somewhat stale.
Truth be told, I’d take a new iPhone design right about now.
In case you are unfamiliar with Apple’s upgrade cycle, it normally recycles a design for about three years. The iPhone X’s design was carried over to the iPhone XS and iPhone 11 Pro, minus a few upgrades like colors, texture, and camera cut-outs.
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But the changes are far and few between, and if you ever saw an iPhone from the front, it wouldn’t be out of the norm to confuse the latest and greatest iPhone with one from three years ago.
If you’re doing the math, we are in year four of the iPhone X design (2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020), so it’s about time for a new design. According to the latest hot rumors, that’s definitely coming later this year.
Among the new upgrades we are expected to see is a new boxy finish with flat sides akin to the iPhone 4, a new size option that’s actually quite small (5.4-inch screen), and a new quad-camera set-up that adds the LIDAR sensor that was introduced in the iPad Pro earlier this year.
That goes along with the new A14 Bionic chip, probably bump in memory and storage, and quite possibly, even a reduced notch, though it is still sticking around at least for another year.
All told, Apple is making some nice changes to the iPhone and I can’t wait to get my hands on it. As much as I love my iPhone 11 Pro, I’m pretty tired of it. It looks just like the iPhone XS and iPhone X I owned before it. (Yes, I do have an unlimited budget to procure the latest iPhone every year.)
Time to get something fresh in my hands. This iPhone 11 Pro is so last year.
