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5.8-Inch iPhone Expected to Have Flat Display Despite 'Curved' Rumors
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Certainly hope the flagship models don't have curved screens, or at least that there's an option for one without a curve. Too breakable, too easy to hit things accidentally, and mostly a gimmick on the Samsung's I've tried it on. I'd rather see a more unified cloud platform from Apple (maybe an Apple Music subscription comes with extra iCloud storage or a higher-priced subscription comes with movie rental/purchase credits), so fewer people have an impossible-to-work-with 5 GB of iCloud space.
Or, y'know, just up the iCloud storage space you get for free to at least be the same as the phone's storage capacity. Google does unlimited full-res photo storage with purchase of a Pixel, why not Apple with an iPhone purchase?
Or, y'know, just up the iCloud storage space you get for free to at least be the same as the phone's storage capacity. Google does unlimited full-res photo storage with purchase of a Pixel, why not Apple with an iPhone purchase?
Every year there's these outrageous rumours that don't come true. Sometimes Apple actually short-circuits these rumours if they set expectations too high.
The super cycle was this year, idiots talking about super cycle. People who jumped in for the large screen 6 two years ago were due to upgrade again 2016, not 2017. The figures tell the story… big boost in iPhone sales & just like 2014, Tim Cook said 'no that's normal, iPhone is just getting bigger and bigger' as you would expect him to say - he's not going to say, 'but next year our sales will be down again' is he?
Looking forward to the 7s, twice the 'ultimate refinement' (Ive) of the 6 design, no OLED because Apple can't get enough OLED (except a 1" screen on the watch which doesn't sell anything like the quantity)
and all these rumours are bull**** !
Oh, and the reason the CIA hacks targeted iPhone, is because it's 90% of the market. Android's 'share' includes everything down to $50 blister pack phones, if you compare their flagship to Apple's flagship, which is where the real action is… Apple totally dominates. Samsung is an enormous ADVERTISER, which is why 'publications' are prepared to lump in every junk phone to try to make it look like Android outsells Apple, to satisfy their advertisers.
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You're not likely to get that last wish, especially the OLED model....you know, increased demand through scarcity.
I don't think it is a new dimension, it is just a gimmick. If you have experience with the other curved display phones, you will know that it is a trouble instead of another dimension. When you hold the phone, you will accidentally touch the curved side and when you tap the screen with the other hand the the same moment, what you intended to tap is not work. The phone is accepting 2 or 3 fingers tap and the result is not what you want. To overcome this, some people will use a larger case so that you when you hold the phone, you will always grab the edges of the case instead of the edges of the phone.
If Apple cannot solve this problem, they will not implement this gimmick into their phones. This gimmick will sure give bad experiences to users now until they have idea to turn this gimmick to a real useful feature.
I have the SE and am very happy. I had the 7, great phone but I like the usability of the SE. I would prefer better front camera, 3d touch as well (perhaps a 7 design but in the 4 to 4.2in display would be awesome).
Well, that's just me.
It would be curious to see what they could come up with in a "Flip Phone" running iOS. Demand for smaller, simpler devices is actually increasing as we enter the age of Gerontology.
I can see the use for a screen with a slight arc in very large movie theatres. IF you can sit in the exact middle of the projected circle, based on the radius. That would make you equidistant to each square foot of the screen, which in some way might limit perceived distortion to your eye. But other than that very specific use case, I can't think of a reason to have a screen with an arc. In any other circumstance, I would think it could create more distortion than a flat screen would.
As far as the slight bends at the ends of the Samsung Galaxy screen, they strike me as shark fins. Like on a 1950' Cadillac. Style intimating function, without having any. Their weird "side notifications" thing just seems like a feature looking for a benefit. Haven't lived with it on a daily basis so I can't say definitively, but so far my impression is that it's a confused design.
The only good uses of a curved display panel are for pushing the display area all the way to the edges of the flat top part, and being able to have the edges detect how the user is holding the phone (useful for locating one-handed controls) or maybe for the phone to display visual notification alerts (think LED flash on alert).
Well I hope Apple do stick with a flat display because I just don't see the point in curved screens. I'm old enough to remember when screens were curved and what we really wanted were flat screens. Now we have flat screens so those companies with no imagination (or no memory of how crap curved screens used to be) think they should give us curved screens again!
Flat screens FTW!
Flat screens FTW!
A curved display is a gimmick and would only lead to more broken screens.
Why are all the sites repeating this 18:9 PR blurb? As is said in the text, 18:9 is the same as 2:1. It is basic maths, reduction to the lowest common denominator! 16:9 can't be reduced further, 18:9 can! Kids are taught this at primary school!
Looking at dimensions of current 4.7 phone, if they remove top and bottom bezels, that so called new iphone will have aspect ration of 2:1. I think most of the content on websites is available in 16:9. So what will apple do>? just show black bars on side while watching movies in portrait mode?
Curved screens are a gimmick for phones. It was a gimmick for TVs. The only place it's not a gimmick is with monitors, where there is real and perceptible advantage.
And someone help with me these 'slim' bezels. I looked at that LG G6 in that guy's video. He was raving about how slim the bezels were. Maybe it's me, but those don't look like slim bezels along the vertical edges. They look about the same as what's on my iPhone 7 Plus.
Perception of what is bezel and what is not has been skewed from the iPhone 6 onward. Which is why I dislike the curved aluminum edges Apple went with. Not only do they make the phone harder to grip and pick up than flat edges, they also add about 1/3 thickness to the vertical sides. This is because the curve causes the edge to extend outward, something you don't get with a flat edge, in effect making the actual bezels look thicker than they really are.
I'm hoping Apple goes back to the flat edge design of the 4 and 4S, along with having a screen that sits flush with the edge.
And someone help with me these 'slim' bezels. I looked at that LG G6 in that guy's video. He was raving about how slim the bezels were. Maybe it's me, but those don't look like slim bezels along the vertical edges. They look about the same as what's on my iPhone 7 Plus.
Perception of what is bezel and what is not has been skewed from the iPhone 6 onward. Which is why I dislike the curved aluminum edges Apple went with. Not only do they make the phone harder to grip and pick up than flat edges, they also add about 1/3 thickness to the vertical sides. This is because the curve causes the edge to extend outward, something you don't get with a flat edge, in effect making the actual bezels look thicker than they really are.
I'm hoping Apple goes back to the flat edge design of the 4 and 4S, along with having a screen that sits flush with the edge.
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In fairness, we don't know that it will be all OLED this year. All we have our analystS and rumors. And truthfully, none of those are worth anything. There were quite a few rumors about the iPhone last year that were also untrue that never happened. So I wouldn't say definitively that we will have OLED, but I do agree that there should be a likeliness of it.
