It’s no secret that the iPhone 17 Professional redesign didn’t get the perfect reception on-line, with many shoppers now saying that the bottom mannequin iPhone 17 appears to be the perfect one. However the redesign — an additional massive rear digicam module — looks as if it’s right here to remain: a minimum of, if Samsung and different telephone producers are to be believed.
I, personally, assume that the iPhone 17 Professional seems to be nice. Whereas that could be controversial, different corporations are already following go well with. Within the renewed race for the slimmest telephone on this planet, it seems to be like a big rear digicam module would be the evolutionary end result of principally each smartphone collection across the globe.
Sony, Samsung, and others are becoming a member of in
A leaked render of the Galaxy S26 Edge. | Picture credit score — Android Headlines
After weeks of shoppers bashing on the leaked iPhone 17 Professional’s seems to be, studies began to return in concerning the Galaxy S26 redesign. Except for the Galaxy S26 Extremely redesign, which I feel seems to be fairly dangerous, it seems that the Galaxy S26 Edge will look awfully acquainted to Apple’s latest flagship entry.
The S26 Edge, based on earlier studies, will principally be as slim as you may get with a Li-ion battery of this capability, which appears to be round 4,200 mAh. It should reportedly be 5.5 mm thick, simply 0.1 mm thinner than the brand new iPhone Air.
Samsung has possible completed the identical factor that Apple did with the iPhone Air, and housed numerous the parts within the massive digicam module in order that the remainder of the telephone might be as slim as it’s. Not like the iPhone Air, nevertheless, the S26 Edge has an excellent bigger digicam module, just like the one discovered on the iPhone 17 Professional fashions.
Equally, Sony’s new Xperia has a big digicam module as effectively. There are different telephones presently in growth, or which have been launched already, that additionally use this identical design, just like the Tecno Slim.
A redesign revolution appears to be brewing, and it’s all about tremendous slim telephones with massive digicam modules to deal with a lot of the internals.
I’m right here for it
I feel the iPhone 17 Professional seems to be nice. | Picture credit score — Apple
Initially, what now appears like a really very long time in the past, I mentioned that Apple was making a mistake with the iPhone 17 Professional redesign. I argued that the corporate was probably going to surrender its enviable iconic look, and danger getting its telephones mistaken as Google’s Pixel telephones.
That…will not be going to occur anymore. With its largest smartphone rival, Samsung, scorching on it heels, that is hardly going to stay a novel search for lengthy. And, with all the different telephones additionally adopting this design, the iPhone will now look simply as comparable as each different telephone in the marketplace.
Moreover, very similar to the iPhone 17 Professional, I’m up for this changing into an industrywide pattern. I don’t know why, however I truly actually like this design general. Ideally, each smartphone would provide one thing distinctive, however I’m completely pleased with producers experimenting with this look.
Absolutely the excellent telephone, for me a minimum of, can be one thing just like the RedMagic 10 Professional. A slimmer model of that telephone can be wonderful, and Apple is seemingly engaged on one thing like that.
The RedMagic 10 Professional. | Picture credit score — RedMagic
Apple is reportedly engaged on a twentieth anniversary iPhone Professional mannequin for 2027, conserving according to its three-year plan for the iPhone. This telephone seems like the perfect pattern that Apple may probably popularize, making up for its sins of eradicating the headphone jack and bringing consideration to show notches.
However, this does include the caveat of unavoidably dearer iPhone fashions sooner or later. Particularly now {that a} $2,000 iPhone 17 Professional Max exists, and a foldable iPhone of in all probability across the identical value is launching subsequent yr.
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