With Apple followers around the globe obsessing over subsequent month’s iPhone 14 launch, one artistic developer (noticed by 9to5Mac) has given us the possibility to design the machine ourselves.
Should you’d wish to indulge your fantasies of being the subsequent Jony Ive, head over to Neal Agarwal’s web site, the place you’ll be given the possibility to Design the Subsequent iPhone. Beginning with a portless, notchless machine (which some might wish to hold), it’s as much as you to pick further options and drag-and-drop them wherever you want.
The chassis and display screen dimension are set in stone, sadly for many who’d like to avoid wasting the iPhone mini, however past that you simply get an alarmingly free hand. In addition to wise and semi-sensible choices corresponding to cameras, ports, logos and buttons, you’ll be able to add the press wheel from the iPod, the Digital Crown from the Apple Watch and, er, the stand from the Professional Show XDR.
There are even a bunch of choices which have by no means appeared on an Apple machine and possibly by no means will. Our youthful readers might not recognise the rotary dial, however who wouldn’t take pleasure in googly eyes, a steering wheel, and a useful cup holder?
Amusingly, even this absurdist take doesn’t suppose a USB-C port is a practical possibility for this yr’s iPhone design. Convey again the headphone port? Certain. Add an HDMI port that’s actually thicker than the cellphone itself? No probs. However USB-C in 2022 is loopy speak.
That peculiar omission apart, that is each enjoyable and acutely nicely noticed. We significantly loved seeing our pathetic, Homer Simpson-esque cellphone design offered in an Apple-style keynote video, full with approving Tim Prepare dinner voiceover. Whereas we watch for the iPhone 14, it is a first rate solution to kill half an hour imagining absolutely the worst case situation when it launches.