Remember those renders claimed to portray the iPhone
XI (the successor to the XS) with a huge ghastly camera bump on the back? Today
sees the leak of the alleged "final" CAD-based renders of the iPhone
XI, and - shock horror - the hump is still there.
In terms of surface area, this has to be the biggest
bump ever seen on a smartphone, so Apple can brag about that in its
presentation this fall. Jokes aside, if this is indeed the final design of the
iPhone XI (or whatever it will end up being called), then it's going to be
polarizing to say the least.
Anyway, the huge hump houses three camera sensors
and a pretty big LED flash array, along with a mic hole. Interestingly, the
entire back of the device is made from one single sheet of glass - that's also
covering the camera bump.
On the front there's a 5.8" AMOLED display with
its size unchanged from the iPhone X and XS. The source of these images says
the bezels all-round have gotten ever so slightly (but not noticeably) thinner,
and yet the upcoming phone is bigger on all axes than its predecessor, so
something doesn't add up there.
The iPhone XI's dimensions are reportedly going to
be 143.9 x 71.4 x 7.8 mm, while the XS clocks in at 143.6 x 70.9 x 7.7 mm. The
mute switch on the side now looks different, and it's similar to those found in
old iPads. There's no trace of a USB-C connector at the bottom, as Apple is
apparently still going to be using Lightning for this generation of phones.
The company is expected to unveil the successors to
the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR in September as usual, with availability
following soon after that.
