“For quite a while now, credible reports from the media as well as from analysts have claimed that Apple intends to launch an iPhone with a 6.46-inch organic light emitting diode (OLED) display in 2018,” Ashraf Eassa writes for The Motley Fool. “Bloomberg, in a new article, published two additional details about this rumored upcoming iPhone — a device that I’ll henceforth refer to as the iPhone X Plus. ”
“A 1242 x 2688 resolution display that measures 6.46 inches along the diagonal would have a pixel density of 458 pixels per inch — exactly that of the display on the current iPhone X. This contradicts previous rumors that the iPhone X Plus would have a sharper display than the one on the current iPhone X,” Eassa writes. “This would represent a departure from Apple’s previous product strategy (seen on the iPhone 6-series through the iPhone 8-series) wherein the larger-screen iPhone would also have a sharper display. In effect, what this would mean is that consumers wouldn’t be forced to choose between a sharper display or a smaller display — they could pick the size that they want and be guaranteed the same image clarity.”
MacDailyNews Take: Virtually no “Plus” buyers buy based on “sharpness” as all of Apple’s iPhone displays are “Retina quality.” They buy displays, and in fact iPhones, based on size, not pixel densities that are already beyond the discernment of the naked eye.
“The Bloomberg report also says that for the upcoming iPhone X-series smartphones, Apple ‘is considering a gold color option,'” Eassa writes. “The addition of a gold option, the article explained, would be ‘especially appealing to consumers in Asia and may help boost sales in the region.’ Rumor has it Apple tried to develop a gold option for the iPhone X, but wasn’t able to make it work.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Gold certainly sells iPhones, so bring that color option to fruition, Apple!
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2 ways Apple can improve upon the beautiful iPhone X – February 15, 2018
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Can’t wait!
Gold with a BLACK face please!!!
Yes, otherwise they might as well not pointlessly release it at all.
I wanted a gold iPhone for the first time this year, simply for the reason that the iPhone X had a black face regardless of the back’s color. Unfortunately they opted not to make it available, and I’m sure by the next release they’ll “solve” the “problem” that led them to use the black front, and they’ll continue making the painful mistake of putting a white front on iPhones that literallly nobody wants, and I’ll end up sticking with “black” (really an ugly light grey, with the exception of 7 jet black and 8/X) like usual.
If you can’t tell, I hate the color choices. I would prefer the option to custom order my color for an extra $100 and wait for it to ship directly from the factory.