I would love to see what Apple could do with an edge to edge display that curved along the sides.
http://youtu.be/yTu9omph9U8
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The next iPhone hopefully will include something like this.
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Maybe the same way they manage to ignore unintentional touches with the ipad mini and ipad air. Maybe the sides aren't touch capacititive and are there for display purposes only? Who knows?
I'am not a Apple hardware engineer. I'am simply looking forward to more usable and useful space on a future iOS device.
Why so much cynicism?
Seems very impractical. I can see them doing something like this for the iWatch but not an iPhone.
This is ugly. I don't want this on my iPhone so I hope they don't ever include something like this. Really dont see the point. A cool thing I can think of...double screens. Meaning if your phone is on it's front or back, it has a screen that you can operate.
Samsung's CEO did an on-stage demo of this, where they had a prototype device in a leather case and notifications would scroll along the screen-covered edge, so you could see them without opening the case.
It looked cool, but I dunno. I like the iPhones metal bezel; it adds a touch of class and a sense of high quality (as dumb as that probably sounds).
I suppose you could make it so that your notifications scroll and the sides aren't touch sensitive, but I don't know how much added functionality that would give me personally. It's easy enough to drag down notification center.
It looked cool, but I dunno. I like the iPhones metal bezel; it adds a touch of class and a sense of high quality (as dumb as that probably sounds).
I suppose you could make it so that your notifications scroll and the sides aren't touch sensitive, but I don't know how much added functionality that would give me personally. It's easy enough to drag down notification center.
An idea that past concept phone designs have used, is a display that wraps completely around the device for use as a virtual "skin".
This allows changing the device's case "wallpaper" or theme to fit your mood / time / location.
Of course, it seems like a waste to make all of that high resolution. At least, not unless it costs just pennies in the future.
This allows changing the device's case "wallpaper" or theme to fit your mood / time / location.
Of course, it seems like a waste to make all of that high resolution. At least, not unless it costs just pennies in the future.
this looks stupid. but generally speaking renderings do look stupid and apple generally makes stuff that doesn't look stupid. I'm sure if they ever went with this idea, they'd find a way to make it work.
on a side note i really dont get whats so special about these curved screens. You tilt your phone and see updates? how hard is it to press one button?
on a side note i really dont get whats so special about these curved screens. You tilt your phone and see updates? how hard is it to press one button?
The concept is interesting and yes it's is a prototype. Hardly stupid looking but to each his own. The video of the demo still looks cool. Somebody will implement something like this in the near future. Hears hoping Apple can wow the world again with something useful and in a beautiful design.
The only practical application for this I can see is for an iwatch, if that ever comes to fruition.
