Apple May Be Returning to Glass-on-Glass Touch Panels for iPhone 7

[Analog Kid]

Where's kdarling when you need him? A quick search isn't telling me anything about what the actual difference is between in-cell and glass-on-glass...

As long as we're talking about everything else about the phone:

I miss the glass back of iPhone 4. That model still exemplifies to me what the phone design should be (antennas aside). It felt like what it was.

I like a physical home button. I don't think I'd notice if they made it rigid and used force touch to enable it, but there needs to be a physical space for it. If they do away with that then they need to make sure it doesn't matter which end is up when you use the phone-- display, speaker, mic all need to be invertible.

Edge display is meaningless to me on a phone, but I'd love it on my Apple Watch to show the time even when the rest of the display is off and my wrist isn't turned toward me.

 

[Avieshek]

Wait, the site MacRumors, itself came with a report on Apple working with LG advances on 'On-Cell' technology, allowing thinner panels and quicker response to touch as-well-as better colour output due to reduction of an extra layer, Remember?
And people coming up with extra information & complaining, it doesn't allow usability at all on a cracked screen unlike 'In-Cell' technology where one can still use the phone for at-least to back-up.

How, come this fan-boy site forgot to reference their own articles when coming up with predictions for further predictions.

('On-Cell' is a different term and 'Glass-on-Glass' is a different term)​

 

[rdlink]

Calm down. You can turn them off or customise them however you want. Remember the Samsung runs Android, not ios.

Yes, I remember. It's the operating system where things don't quite actually do what they're named. DND should be DND. Period. When I put a DND sign on the door of my hotel room that doesn't mean I want the chambermaid to scratch on the door, instead of knocking on it. Otherwise, it's just modifications of the way you're notified. And iOS does both just fine.

 

[Makosuke]

Forget the bezel or bezel-less designs. What's up with the 4K screen nonsense? Why the heck would I want a 4K screen on a ~5" phone?

There are limits to human vision, and past a point of pixel density there is no advantage in visual quality to more pixels at normal viewing distances. All you're doing is making the GPU work harder so your advertisers can put bigger numbers on the spec sheet. And unlike, say, a gaming PC where you can run it at a lower resolution, you get what you get with an iPhone, so it's going to hurt every game for spec-sheet gain.

Seriously--give me enough resolution that I can't see the pixels, and not a bit more. Don't give me a 4.7" phone with a 4K screen just because you can. Heck, I can't even see the pixels on my 70" 4K TV, and at the normal distance I hold my phone the screen is probably a third the apparent size of the TV at most.

 

[Analog Kid]

Wait, the site MacRumors, itself came with a report on Apple working with LG advances on 'On-Cell' technology, allowing thinner panels and quicker response to touch as-well-as better colour output due to reduction of an extra layer, Remember?
And people coming up with extra information & complaining, it doesn't allow usability at all on a cracked screen unlike 'In-Cell' technology where one can still use the phone.

How, come this fan-boy site forgot to reference their own articles when coming up with predictions.​

How, come you didn't link to the article if it's relevant? If it has any explanation of the difference between in-cell, on-cell and glass on glass, I could use a tutorial...

 

[Makosuke]

Wait, the site MacRumors, itself came with a report on Apple working with LG advances on 'On-Cell' technology, allowing thinner panels and quicker response to touch as-well-as better colour output due to reduction of an extra layer, Remember?
[...]
How, come this fan-boy site forgot to reference their own articles when coming up with predictions.​

Because it's a rumor site, so they report rumors. Probably 80% of the rumors published here are partially or completely wrong, and because of that they're contradictory all the time. If this particular rumor had come from the same source as the previous, contradictory one, then there'd be reason to question the source entirely, but it didn't.

Just means one of the two is probably wrong. Normally I'd say that both could also be wrong, but since this particular rumor is pretty much an either/or, one is probably correct. Although it's also possible they're both correct--that Apple will use glass-on-glass for the iPhone 7 and maybe 7s, then switch back to in-cell for the 8...

 

[lagwagon]

Wait, the site MacRumors, itself came with a report on Apple working with LG advances on 'On-Cell' technology, allowing thinner panels and quicker response to touch as-well-as better colour output due to reduction of an extra layer, Remember?
And people coming up with extra information & complaining, it doesn't allow usability at all on a cracked screen unlike 'In-Cell' technology where one can still use the phone.

How, come this fan-boy site forgot to reference their own articles when coming up with predictions.​

Pretty sure what you are talking about (especially the removal of an extra layer) was used in the iPad Air 2.

 

[Avieshek]

Pretty sure what you are talking about (especially the removal of an extra layer) was used in the iPad Air 2.

I suppose the iPad can't be that much important to benefit from an 'On-Cell' touch panel before an iPhone. The iMac also got sleeker, doesn't mean it endows with the same thing because of the reason. (Ofcourse, iMac isn't touch sensitive)

 

[penajmz]

This article is about the display construction, not the body of the phone. There's no hint of a return to a glass back here.

You're absolutely right I completely missed that and misunderstood.

 

[farewelwilliams]

Macrumors should stop reporting on Digitimes. They're never accurate.

 

[rdlink]

When I first saw the notification about this I was so excited, because I thought we were going to get the glass-backed iPhone back again. The 4S was the best, and most beautiful phone ever made. Much prettier and more durable than the current ones.

 

[duffman9000]

Forget the bezel or bezel-less designs. What's up with the 4K screen nonsense? Why the heck would I want a 4K screen on a ~5" phone?

There are limits to human vision, and past a point of pixel density there is no advantage in visual quality to more pixels at normal viewing distances. All you're doing is making the GPU work harder so your advertisers can put bigger numbers on the spec sheet. And unlike, say, a gaming PC where you can run it at a lower resolution, you get what you get with an iPhone, so it's going to hurt every game for spec-sheet gain.

Seriously--give me enough resolution that I can't see the pixels, and not a bit more. Don't give me a 4.7" phone with a 4K screen just because you can. Heck, I can't even see the pixels on my 70" 4K TV, and at the normal distance I hold my phone the screen is probably a third the apparent size of the TV at most.

Because e-peen!
(And if you're in 'Merica, because of 'Merica!)

 

[penajmz]

When I first saw the notification about this I was so excited, because I thought we were going to get the glass-backed iPhone back again. The 4S was the best, and most beautiful phone ever made. Much prettier and more durable than the current ones.

I thought the same thing.

 

[FightTheFuture]

Well, that's what you get when you dont actually manufacturer your own hardware unlike an amazing Korean company who's products are the highest of quality with curved displays. I won't say their name here for fear of fire and pitchforks. But it begins with an S and ends with a g. LOL!

Is that the same amazing Korean company who made the phone where you put the stylus in backwards and it permanently damages the device?

 

[Tycho24]

Dammit, if edge-to-edge makes a debut in the iPhone 7, I might actually be tempted. And here I thought I could hold out til the 8.

Am I the only person that feels it is SUPER weird to try to plan out your phone purchases like four years in advance??

 

[Alenore]

How is that do not disturb then...?

You do realize there's different profiles, right ? I should have said "do not ring/vibrate" maybe.

 

[Avieshek]

Macrumors, 'm waiting for a reply!!

 

[Avieshek]

How, come you didn't link to the article if it's relevant? If it has any explanation of the difference between in-cell, on-cell and glass on glass, I could use a tutorial...

'M sure, u know, how to use the internet