2017 iPhone May Feature Edge-to-Edge Display With Embedded Touch ID Sensor, Front-Facing Camera

[nelmat]

Press any key to unlock - on a 'keyless' mockup. Lol.

Concept image via ConceptsiPhone​

I love this mockup.

 

[recoil80]

They had me on "completely getting rid of the chin and forehead of the phone".
Come on Apple!

 

[Coli22]

iPhone 37 will be made out of thin air will be the best iPhone ever!
But iPhone 7? Will it be iPhone 6ss or ...

 

[skitidetdu]

I remember seeing a patent application for having a camera tucked away behind the screen many many years ago. Hopefully it will become reality now.

 

[gibbsj87]

That's one HUGE hunk of glass waiting to be broken.

 

[ohboy...]

HOW DO YOU HOLD IT?
WHAT CASE CAN PROTECT IT?
NOT A USEFUL TOOL, BUT A PIECE OF BLING!
APPLE DESIGN IS GOING THE WAY OF THE CONCORDE. OUCH!

 

[chazbcn]

I'll upgrade my current iPhone 6 next september, no matter what comes on 2017. I'm all in for the "7 Plus", boring or not.
There will always be something cooler, faster, better coming up. Latest and greatest can only last for a year with the current update cycle.
The only thing I'd really want from this possible all-screened iPhone 2017 would be precisely the lack of a home button with embedded Touch-ID into the screen.

 

[chasonstone]

Very interested in the 2017 rumors. Very UN-interested in the 2016 rumors. I'll likely be keeping my 6 plus an extra year, I upgrade every two years or less but that may be about to change. I've went iPhone -> iPhone 3GS -> iPhone 4 -> iPhone 4s -> iPhone 5 -> iPhone 6 Plus but I may for the first time skip two generations.

 

[sofila]

Why listen to one of the top 10 Apple's a** kissers, whose disposable income come from talking about Apple, revealing us about marvelous unspecified unknown features coming while present iPhone sales are stalling and most of the readers are dubious about next gen coming

 

[LCPepper]

Sounds like a bit of the bull's excrement to me...

 

[drumcat]

What about projectors and projection systems? Wouldn't that be a game changer? What about making the device a solid piece of glass, essentially making the entire phone completely clear when its not powered on? What about making the device as thin as a piece of paper, as well as making it flexible?

Those would all be game changers and substantial leaps in technology. Are we saying that those things are impossible? That they will never be done? Of course they will be eventually. Just a matter of when it happens.

Well, isn't the "pocket computer" maxed out in design? We're talking about a screen device that would now be at 100% screen. A projector? Takes you away.

To me, the form factor needs to merge. You might remember some designs where phones were the "brains" of an optional laptop. What I would really like to see is a "MacBook" where the phone becomes the trackpad when docked. I want it to evolve into a MacOS device. And maybe it's not the actual trackpad, but I want to start running Phone apps on my laptop, and be able to move files around like we currently do. I don't like the idea of "syncing"; I want to work together more.

I'm not going to say I have the idea all worked out. That I can trust to engineers. I just want some of the artificial barriers broken down. I want to run Watch complications on my lock screen. I want to play Fallout Shelter on my laptop. I want to design Modular watch face designs on my laptop. I want my phone to have accessibility to files like ChronoSync Agent gives.

Apple has plenty of "low hanging fruit", pardon the pun. Running the screen a few more millimetres here and there do not matter if they can't improve anything practical. The iPhone 7 should be waterproof, just like SG7. It is close to having enough power to be an everyday computer for many, so it would be nice if it could run MacOS. If you're going to have a lightning cable, let's get it plugged into a monitor, and BT in keyboard and mouse.

Innovation isn't always tiny hardware increments. Innovation is in how easy it is for me to use the software I pay for.

 

[elmaco]

They will never release a device with an edge-to-edge display. It looks cool in pictures but is completely unpractical. These rumors come up every year. No bezel...not happening

Why is it unpractical?

Apple can just create a bezel in software, if there needs to be some space that you can't touch. The home button could still be there, it would just be virtual.

Steve Jobs got rid of the keyboard, but he kept one physical button. Now let's get rid of that too and make the whole screen fingerprint sensitive. No more unlocking.

And if you give the phone to a friend, they will get a guest login, where they can surf the web and make phone calls, but not access you Facebook, mail, SMS etc

 

[GeekishlyGreek]

This sounds too good to be true, and frankly it probably is. There are always rumors and renders based on extreme wish lists (laser projected keyboards?), and it usually falls short.

My prediction is the 2016 iPhone won't suck as bad as everyone is expecting and the 2017 iPhone won't be as groundbreaking as this post suggests. I feel quite confident in my predictions about the 2017 phone, but I fear I may just be naively hoping about the 2016 iPhone.

This idea's actually pretty cool! What's even more interesting is that this technology is actually already possible. I've already seen projectable keyboards for PCs sold on Amazon. (Not used one though, so cannot tell you how well they work) but they do exist. So yeah, putting one of these into the side of an iPhone would be an extremely innovative idea, and I'd definitely rush out and buy one.

Not sure if the video is just a mockup, or where this came from, but helping Apple's design team by speaking up whenever we have innovative ideas is a good move! (certainly better than just whining about why most developers of nearly every smartphone on the planet are sort of stuck with the innovation equivalent of writers block). Ideas help shape the world with good things, so for those that have them, share them! You never know, it just may be possible.

Incidentally, here was another cool idea that I found on youtube, so thought I would add this to the innovate ideas pool.

Enjoy!

PS: this next video might be less possible to do than the original video using today's technology, but I thought was a cool extension of the idea in the first video (especially as people keep suggesting projectors),..

 

[ConnYoungy]

I want this.

 

[Lemon Mac]

May be the first year I may keep an iPhone for 3 years.

I hope you will be able to live with the shame!

 

[output555]

How sad is it that MacRumors is reporting about the next, next new iPhone before the next one is even introduced this year? Apple can't afford to wait another year to reinvigorate the iPhone. Sales are slipping and customers are fickle. If the iPhone 7 is a flop, or even meh, Apple probably will never recover as customers switch to the competition. Losing brand cache is the beginning of the end. I find it incredible that the company has become so complacent.

 

[TimeMachine86]

I don't get all the fuzz about " the 2017 iPhone has to be special cause it will be its 10th birthday"

First, Apple really doesn't care about birthday. They proved it this year with the 40th of Apple.
No special product. No new Macintosh. Nothing. Nothing.

Now, let's be clear. iPhone coming THIS YEAR will be the 10th generation of iPhone.

Count :

1. iPhone Edge
2. iPhone 3G
3. iPhone 3Gs
4. iPhone 4
5. iPhone 4s
6. iPhone 5 /5 C
7. iPhone 5s
8. iPhone 6 / 6 Plus
9. iPhone 6s / 6s Plus / SE
10.... iPhone 2016

So here we are. the 10th generation of iPhone is the one to come. Not the 2017 one.

and iOS "10" and the processor A"10" are for THIS year!

If they want to celebrate the iPhone, this is NOW! Not in 2017

So yeah, if 2017 is the year of the big change, this won't be for a celebration at all.


+ i find it very sad that we talk about something that could happen in 2017, making 2016 looking boring !!!

We can't sleep for 17 months ! So let's focus on iPhone 2016 first please!

 

[TroyBoy30]

now thats a good looking phone

 

[keatth]

Imagine the video they play where they show the phone with bezels then you turn it sideways and they disappear showing its a screen after all they were just using deep blacks
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Edge to edge would be completely useless for many since most people put a case on. I already cannot use the edges of my iPhone 6 when I have the Apple leather case on.

You just have to push a little harder

 

[NT1440]

EXACTLY. It's all about the Benjamin's when it comes to Apple.
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Save your breath and stop shouting. It's not so much craving innovation as it is more of a reaction to Apple milking the same basic iPhone design for three years in a row. To me and to many others, this seems like a very lazy and dull approach--especially at the high cost Apple commands. In a refresh year such as 2016, refresh the physical look of the phone. I think that's what most people are reacting too. It's not too much to ask.

Boo hoo. Superficiality (I guess it's "lazy" to completely re-engineer nearly every component in the phone, but the outside looks the same so it's just easy right?) isn't something to be admired.

 

[I7guy]

How sad is it that MacRumors is reporting about the next, next new iPhone before the next one is even introduced this year? Apple can't afford to wait another year to reinvigorate the iPhone. Sales are slipping and customers are fickle. If the iPhone 7 is a flop, or even meh, Apple probably will never recover as customers switch to the competition. Losing brand cache is the beginning of the end. I find it incredible that the company has become so complacent.

Really? I don't get how you know they're complacent? The 6s was a heck of a product and they are are all rumors. Obviously the i7 rumor mill is dry, so some rumors were "made up".

 

[BMcCoy]

Now, let's be clear. iPhone THIS YEAR will be the 10th iPhone.

You missed out the + phones, and the 5c and 5s aren't really the same phone. Neither are the 6s and SE.

Which makes it 13 iPhones so far:
Edge, 3G, 3Gs, 4, 4s, 5, 5s, 5c, 6, 6+, 6s, 6s+, SE

The 2016 iPhone will be the 14th model, (and maybe 15th if two sizes are released, as per the last few years.)

 

[Mac 128]

Hi there, self proclaimed engineer here with no educational background. Think of how the iPad Pro's palm rejection works when using the pen, essentially the phone will know when you are holding it in on both sides and will only let the screen activate on the main panel...

Why doesn't that work on the iPhone now? I can't tell you how many times I'm typing in landscape mode and my finger inadvertently lays across the top corner of the screen causing all kinds of problems until I realize it's happening.

And Palm rejection has never worked especially well with my iPad. Is it hardware specific? If so that may be why I'm not impressed with it.

 

[DDustiNN]

Edge-to-edge screen is such a terrible idea. Probably the worst, actually. There will be so many accidental screen presses/movements due to the palm area of your thumb touching the screen as you reach for an icon or something. It already happens on the current iPhone 6 style.

 

[jonnysods]

It would be hard to hold that's for sure, unless they changed the way edges interact with your hand while you hold it.

Would look so amazing though.

Wonder what the battery life would be like!!!