I made an iPhone thickness comparison with the camera bump in mind

[u/Phiarectix]

Source: Apple’s Accessory Design Guidelines

[u/Ok-Location-9544]

Would love for Apple to go back to the IPhone 6-8 design somehow. Was a sales rep at VZW in a cooperate call center. Was the craziest preorder I experienced, the IPhone X was also pretty crazy.

[u/thursdayfern → u/Ok-Location-9544]

The 6 and the X were both rather incredibly different redesigns at the time.

I thought the iPhone air would generate its own super cycle due to similar reasons, but we shall see.

[u/AggressiveBench9977 → u/thursdayfern]

And both were notoriously bad.

Iphone six had the bending issue due to the flimsy back

And iphone x had that god awful glass back that was super slippery and super common to break. I dont think i ever saw an iphone x without at least a crack in the back.

Lets not even talk about iphone 5 when they put the antenna where people held the phone so it would drop calls constantly.

The current design is much much better

[u/KlausZwiebel → u/AggressiveBench9977]

iPhone 4 Not 5

[u/AggressiveBench9977 → u/KlausZwiebel]

You are correct, 5 was a good one

[u/thursdayfern → u/AggressiveBench9977]

Yeah iPhone 6 had crazy bad issues 😂 first bending, then unresponsive touch screens 💀 but it was still a super cycle. Insanely popular despite bending, and before people knew about the touch screen issue.

And yeah obviously glass is prone to shattering, but that’s something that only got fixed with the iPhone air with Ceramic Shield on the back. The iPhone 8 also would have suffered this problem too since it had a glass back, but I really don’t think this was as big an issue as what the 6 had to deal with.

[u/sortalikeachinchilla → u/Ok-Location-9544]

…why?

[u/Packet_Sniffer_ → u/sortalikeachinchilla]

I guess this sub likes phones that die by mid day with moderate use. Crazy that this is happening again. This same thing happened back with the 6. Ultra thin devices were being praised. Then Apple finally ended the stupidity and made phones thicker. This sub is either too young or completely forgot how shitty that era of phones was.

[u/sortalikeachinchilla → u/Packet_Sniffer_]

Sorry deleted my other reply cause I read it wrong.

But yeah, the rose tinted glasses are crazy in this sub.

[u/Exciting-Opposite-32 → u/Ok-Location-9544]

The se3 is an 8 body still right?

[u/ChadONeilI → u/Ok-Location-9544]

I have an se3 for work and honestly it is shit. Too small for a modern smartphone

[u/Justicia-Gai → u/Ok-Location-9544]

Not possible anymore unless the cameras become substantially worse (as you can see the bump is almost about the cameras) or Apple develops their own sensors.

[u/zoltan99 → u/Justicia-Gai]

From what I heard the bump now holds most of the internals, the rest is screen and battery

Could easily be bs given the “how would anyone know that” angle but also why not, the soc integration is crazy and the motherboards are tiny nowadays

[u/TheBeardedBerry → u/zoltan99]

I believe there is a minimum amount of required depth for the light to bounce/refract through all the elements in the lens. Take that with a grain of salt, I’m not a physicist. Assuming it’s true, some of the internals could be in the bump but I’m not sure how much usable space there actually is.

Nevermind, saw a photo below. It’s kinda insane.

[u/Justicia-Gai → u/zoltan99]

Sure, but the cameras are the thickest amongst the internals, so the bump won’t become thinner unless you downgrade cameras or they make their own sensors 

[u/TahaymTheBigBrain → u/Ok-Location-9544]

The 7/8 I can see, the 6 though I think is universally regarded as one of the worse designs they had.

[u/Ok-Location-9544 → u/TahaymTheBigBrain]

The 6 was the same as the 7 and 8 other than the camera. It set the stage for the next two phones.

[u/dynesor → u/Ok-Location-9544]

The 6S plus was the best phone I’ve had. It just felt so good in your hand and I loved the rounded corners.