“The iPhone 6 is the first iPhone with a camera lens that instead of being flush with the back of the devices slightly protrudes instead,” John Brownlee reports for Cult of Mac. “It was a necessary design trade-off, allowing Jony Ive’s team of designers to cram the advanced optics into the iPhone 6 necessary to make it the best smartphone camera ever.”
“But that doesn’t change the fact that Apple usually likes clean lines in its product designs. And that protruding camera lens, when viewing the iPhone 6 in profile, turns an otherwise clean line into an unsightly bulge,” Brownlee reports. “Apple can’t stand that bulge, so the company is going to the unprecedented length of using clever lighting and photography to hide it in its marketing materials.”
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Ben Brooks writes for The Brooks Review, “I looked through Apple’s site on the iPhone 6 and interestingly the bump isn’t hidden most of the time, but it is always hidden in profile. When you look at the iPhone in profile the honest way to show the phone is with the bump, but take a look (from Apple’s site)…”
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“I think this is a place where Apple has shown their hand at just how motivated they are to keep progressing the camera technology in their phones,” Shawn Blanc blogs. “Their engineering team has made a phone so thin that they physically can’t pack the lens and sensor into it.”
“With the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, they’ve chosen to make the camera as good as they can make it, even if it causes the lens to slightly protrude,” Blanc writes. “As much as Apple is known for their design and good taste, let it never be said that they will chose form over function when it comes to the most important features.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
I think it’s a gamble with good odds of paying off. Many users (probably most) put their iPhone in some form of case to protect it. That immediately makes the protrusion irrelevant if not an advantage – not being as recessed means less chance of the lens being obscured. Even a vinyl skin adding a mm or so will bring it more or less flush (my hope will be a wood skin like I have on my iPhone 5, and my 4S before that). People who go naked will be used to the risk of scratches and marking anyway, so will already be accepting that they have to take it as it comes if they catch their phone on something and damage it superficially.
I’d love the design to be flush, but in day-to-day use I’m going to care a lot more about the improved camera.
The writer of this article is just a critic but not an apple fan. It is obvious that this time the design is a continuation from the nice-looking design from iPod Touch with that same camera design. And it also matches with the new watch. It is apple design. Try to do some homework before commenting.