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Apple Bitz XL w/ Brian Tong

How Much Will The iPhone Cost? iOS 19 Leaks & the iPhone 'Fold' (Apple Bitz XL, Ep. 339)

Apple Bitz XL w/ Brian Tong

Apple Bitz XL Podcast w/ Brian Tong

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

How much will the iPhone cost with tariffs? Could you really make an iPhone in the U.S.? Plus, new iOS 19 leaks, iPhone 17 Pro rumors and the Foldable iPhone is getting serious.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Hey, Brian Tong here. I am on the road right now in Japan. I'm on vacation,

0:11.2

but you know what? I'm going to always make sure to give you all some content. So we've got a few

0:15.6

stories and then we're going to jump into the video that I made about the rumors and the rumblings

0:19.9

of everything around the foldable iPhone,

0:21.7

but we just want to touch upon a few things. This is a quick, condensed version of the podcast

0:25.8

because, yeah, I'm on the road, but there's a lot of things happening. So first up, iOS 19,

0:30.9

new leaks reveal a new design potentially from front page tag with John Proser, new

0:36.2

potentially rounder app icons,

0:38.2

not necessarily a full circle, but not necessarily a square,

0:42.4

and then a floating tab bar on the bottom similar to what they're doing with the iPad design and iPad OS.

0:48.2

The change itself, I mean, the more you look at what is being rumored and reported about

0:53.1

the next generation iPhone

0:54.5

from a physical hardware standpoint and from the Vision OS standpoint, if we're talking about round

0:59.5

icons and we're talking about a camera bar on the back is, has Apple completely leaned in and

1:05.1

without any shame to really pull from a lot of inspiration from what Google's been doing with their pixel phones

1:12.3

from both an OS standpoint and a physical standpoint. We'll see. Now, one interesting nugget

1:18.9

from the report about the new iOS 19, which again, we'll have a lot of glassy, translucency,

1:24.7

floating layers, very vision OS is that in a recent report, again, front page text

1:30.1

said that part of the new iOS 19 design is that the iPhone 17 Pro models are rumored to offer

1:37.8

dual video recording in the camera app, meaning it can record from both cameras, the front facing

1:43.5

and the rear camera

1:44.8

at the same time. Now, I don't know if you all remember this, but when I had that sit down interview

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