Next-Generation iPhone to Use Thinner In-Cell Technology for Multi-Touch Display?

I'm so friggin excited to get this new iPhone.

That sounds lovely. Probably will make room for a bigger battery.

As it was with the "home button gone" iPad 3 — I'll believe it when I see it

Everything rumored so far has pointed to either a major redesign and/or much thinner phone. Either way, I am stoked and can't wait see what happens.

Cool, I guess.

I qualify my "cool" just because whenever I use my iPhone the last thing I ever think is "Man, I wish this thing was thinner."

My 40-year-old eyes are just hoping the 4" screen rumors are true (and I'm pretty sure they are).

October can't come fast enough!

This plus slightly larger screen plus liquid metal casing would be a pretty sweet upgrade.

Go Japan!

I'm glad that all 3 companies innovating or leading this technology are Japanese.
Japan needs the support in recent times.

HarryKeogh said:

Cool, I guess.

I qualify my "cool" just because whenever I use my iPhone the last thing I ever think is "Man, I wish this thing was thinner."

My 40-year-old eyes are just hoping the 4" screen rumors are true (and I'm pretty sure they are).

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While the thinness of the device is cool, what I think is really cool is the thing you “touch” is going to get closer to your finger. Seems perhaps a minor detail, but increasing the illusion of tactile response is far more interesting to me than throwing in a quad core processor. This along with reducing the response time is going to be amazing.

I am afraid that the iPhone 5 will probably won't be available in May.

hajime said:

I am afraid that the iPhone 5 will probably won't be available in May.

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of course it won't....

It will be sept-oct, period.

I'd maybe give a 8% chance of august, and a 1% chance of july.

I just hope they dont keep making them thinner for the sake of thinness.

If the LCD is thinner, i just hope they put a larger battery.

HiVolt said:

I just hope they dont keep making them thinner for the sake of thinness.

If the LCD is thinner, i just hope they put a larger battery.

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I don't care how thin they make it as long as they don't let the other important facets of the experience suffer

AustinIllini said:

I don't care how thin they make it as long as they don't let the other important facets of the experience suffer

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Well, for me a handheld device suffers if it's too thin to hold comfortably, safely. Like the iPod touch for example. Thats just way too thin for my liking. not to mention Apple keeps using very slippery materials with very little grip.

HarryKeogh said:

My 40-year-old eyes are just hoping the 4" screen rumors are true (and I'm pretty sure they are).

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It depends on how they increase the diagonal though. If they do it the way some have speculated by increasing only the height, it won't help your eyes at all, only the feeling the screen is larger.

The article doesn't say this, but apparently in-cell can also help with reducing the size of bezel so that might go well with the old "edge-to-edge" rumor.

hajime said:

I am afraid that the iPhone 5 will probably won't be available in May.

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When has it ever been available in May?

1mm thinner-
more or less?

Cool, thinner is handy. Not a deal breaker for me, I don't need anorexic devices, but more portability is not a bad thing. But the article doesn't say how much of a difference this might actually make?

Mad Mac Maniac said:

of course it won't....

It will be sept-oct, period.

I'd maybe give a 8% chance of august, and a 1% chance of july.

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I'd give 0% on both.

I wonder if this can run halo 2?!?

Isn't the iPhone already thin enough?

I don't see what making it even thinner would accomplish. In fact, a thinner iPhone may actually be harder to hold comfortably in your hand at this point.

Another iPhone rumor? It's not even May yet. Where oh where are the Mac news?

BJMRamage said:

1mm thinner-more or less?

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That would make the phone 10% thinner, or free up 10% of current volume for more battery. Dunno how thick the battery is, but that extra millimeter alone would gain something like 20-30% more run time.

Hoping for October!

Well, it looks like it's going to be an October start. That fould fit nicely. I bought the iPhone 4 the day Verizon got it and it is eligible for an upgrade in October. Now, despite all the new gimmics like this one, I really hope there will be a slightly bigger screen and some more battery life. Not that the battery life is bad - compared to competition it's actually good, but compared to "dumb phones," well, you can't compare that. My work "dumb phone" stays charged for about 2 weeks with occasional calls and is charged withing 2h. I know that we won't get there, but more than 2 days with calls and app use would be great. So, in other words: My hope is that Apple uses the space they can save for better batteries. I don't want a thin-as-can-be phone just to find out the battery life is compromised.

How much thinner can a display get and still be tough enough to make a difference?