{"id":338596,"date":"2017-04-18T04:19:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/17\/iphone-8-polished-stainless-steel-vertical-camera\/"},"modified":"2017-04-18T04:19:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T20:19:49","slug":"iphone-edition-said-to-have-polished-stainless-steel-frame-similar-to-apple-watch-vertical-camera-for-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/iphone-edition-said-to-have-polished-stainless-steel-frame-similar-to-apple-watch-vertical-camera-for-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;iPhone Edition&#8217; Said to Have Polished Stainless Steel Frame Similar to Apple Watch, Vertical Camera for VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s widely rumored iPhone with an OLED display will feature a polished stainless steel enclosure sandwiched between front and back glass, says Japanese blog <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macotakara.jp\/blog\/rumor\/entry-32302.html\">Mac Otakara<\/a><\/em>. That&#8217;s the same iPhone 4-like design that reliable Apple analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ming-chi-kuo\/\">Ming-Chi Kuo<\/a> of KGI Securities has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/09\/29\/2017-iphone-stainless-steel-high-end\/\">expected since last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/04\/large-58f4fbaaed488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"567\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-560791\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;iPhone Edition&#8221; render by Japanese blog Mac Otakara<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The blog claims the so-called &#8220;iPhone Edition&#8221; will use an improved version of the Apple Watch&#8217;s stainless steel enclosure. It also says the smartphone, more commonly dubbed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-8\/\">iPhone 8<\/a>&#8221; for now, will have a conventionally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/03\/16\/oled-iphone-flat-with-slightly-curved-edges\/\">flat OLED display with 2.5D cover glass<\/a> along the edges, as rumored previously.<\/p>\n<p>As seen in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/17\/iphone-8-renderings-minimal-bezels\/\">few<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/13\/potential-iphone-8-foxconn-render\/\">renders<\/a> over the past few weeks, the report claims the &#8220;iPhone Edition&#8221; will be equipped with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/12\/27\/rumor-5-inch-iphone-7s-dual-vertical-camera\/\">vertically-aligned iSight Duo camera<\/a> on the rear for VR shooting purposes. Accordingly, when the iPhone is used in a VR headset, the cameras would be positioned horizontally as customary.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the tentatively named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-7\/\">iPhone 7<\/a>s and iPhone 7s Plus are expected to be slightly thicker than the current iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, meaning that some existing cases and accessories might not fit the newer models. From a cosmetic standpoint, however, those smartphones are expected to look similar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s widely rumored iPhone with an OLED display will feature a polished stainless steel enclosure sandwiched between front and back glass, says Japanese blog <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macotakara.jp\/blog\/rumor\/entry-32302.html\">Mac Otakara<\/a><\/em>. That&#8217;s the same iPhone 4-like design that reliable Apple analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ming-chi-kuo\/\">Ming-Chi Kuo<\/a> of KGI Securities has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/09\/29\/2017-iphone-stainless-steel-high-end\/\">expected since last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/04\/large-58f4fbaaed488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"567\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-560791\" \/><center><em>&#8220;iPhone Edition&#8221; render by Japanese blog Mac Otakara<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe blog claims the so-called &#8220;iPhone Edition&#8221; will use an improved version of the Apple Watch&#8217;s stainless steel enclosure. It also says the smartphone, more commonly dubbed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-8\/\">iPhone 8<\/a>&#8221; for now, will have a conventionally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/03\/16\/oled-iphone-flat-with-slightly-curved-edges\/\">flat OLED display with 2.5D cover glass<\/a> along the edges, as rumored previously. <\/p>\n<p>As seen in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/17\/iphone-8-renderings-minimal-bezels\/\">few<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/13\/potential-iphone-8-foxconn-render\/\">renders<\/a> over the past few weeks, the report claims the &#8220;iPhone Edition&#8221; will be equipped with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/12\/27\/rumor-5-inch-iphone-7s-dual-vertical-camera\/\">vertically-aligned iSight Duo camera<\/a> on the rear for VR shooting purposes. Accordingly, when the iPhone is used in a VR headset, the cameras would be positioned horizontally as customary.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the tentatively named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-7\/\">iPhone 7<\/a>s and iPhone 7s Plus are expected to be slightly thicker than the current iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, meaning that some existing cases and accessories might not fit the newer models. From a cosmetic standpoint, however, those smartphones are expected to look similar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Related Roundup: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-8\/\">iPhone 8 (2017)<\/a> <br \/>Tag: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/macotakara-jp\/\">macotakara.jp<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/iphone-8-polished-stainless-steel-vertical-camera.2042162\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=AcLZMkMloWk:pRDk0ifxgF4:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=AcLZMkMloWk:pRDk0ifxgF4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/AcLZMkMloWk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-338596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}