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iPhone's top and bottom bezels... Waste of so much space?
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Think about the things inside the device.
The earpiece, the sensors, the battery, the heat envelopes, the speakers, the microphones... etc
They need to go somewhere.
The earpiece, the sensors, the battery, the heat envelopes, the speakers, the microphones... etc
They need to go somewhere.
on the ip5, the top and bottom parts of the front face are minimal, the home button is the total height of the bottom piece. unless they made a smaller button.
Of course the phone's innards are a limiting factor, but I'm pretty sure Apple will lose the bezels as soon as they can.
I really don't understand questions like this, of course it's possible, just like it's possible for them to make a 2" phone. Ask yourself if it's practical or a good idea.
If they sandwiched the stuff under the bezels underneath the screen then they wouldn't be able to make the phone as slim.
I don't think they can get rid of them. The top and bottom of the new phone are glass to allow the wifi and cellular antennas to receive a signal properly. I'm sure if they could enclosure the whole thing in aluminum they would have though.
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Apple wants the iphone to be instantly recognizable. It's a design choice, and nothing else. There's no hardware limitation whatsoever stopping them from making the top and bottom bezels smaller.
Perhaps with fingerprint recognition will come a non-pysical button (requiring a finger touch so it doesn't go off in your pocket). That would leave only the provision for a speaker. That could be the glass itself, or a portion of it, or just a tiny hole in it or Apple will say we don't need speakers...
Maybe a sculpted metal case mated to a full curved glass front. Would look about as sleek and uncluttered as physically possible at that point.
Remember the stories about how Apple bought some expensive machines to cut curved glass?
Maybe a sculpted metal case mated to a full curved glass front. Would look about as sleek and uncluttered as physically possible at that point.
Remember the stories about how Apple bought some expensive machines to cut curved glass?
I really think the main reason why we haven't seen a change is because it has become iconic to the look of the iPhone. Even though the phone got taller, just glancing at it it's hard to tell whether it is a 5, 4s, 4, etc. Look at the silhouette logo for "smartphone". Almost everywhere you go it is the iphone silhouette with the big bezels.
Apple is also big on the "you can use the iPhone one handed and touch anywhere on the screen with your thumb". If you reduce this space, it might look aesthetically nice, but it also forces you to either reposition your hand (how you hold the phone) or go about using the phone in a different way.
Apple is also big on the "you can use the iPhone one handed and touch anywhere on the screen with your thumb". If you reduce this space, it might look aesthetically nice, but it also forces you to either reposition your hand (how you hold the phone) or go about using the phone in a different way.
They will most certainly shrink those wasted spaces for the next design once smaller components become available and everybody will look at the iPhone 5 like a strangely elongated outdated device full of wasted space just like we currently do at the "squatty" 4/4S.
So true. If Apple looses all that honkin' upper space in the next phone, it will really make the iPhone 5 look goofy.
Man, you'd love to be a fly on the wall in Apple's iPhone 6 design meetings.