Apple Orders Display Driver Chips From Synaptics for Next iPhones

[8692574]

#1, yes -- it's just a concept. No need to put your sarcasm hat on, even if it does match your pessimist pants.
#2, maybe those shortcuts are insignificant TO YOU, but some of us use them a lot (myself included). You would be benefited (in many facets of life) by thinking from other perspectives too, not just your own.

Human beings are very solution-oriented. They see a problem, and they immediately decide what, for them, is the best solution. They don't generally dig beyond that surface, nor do they take into account the needs of others in solving their problem.

 

[Pakaku]

Hard to see them ditching the home button to be honest. Wouldn't be the same replacing it with a software version. Especially when apps crash and are unresponsive to any software inputs.

The concept looks like it punched a hole throught the screen and shoved a physical home button and its Touch ID ring in there. Whether that's physically possible or not is up for debate.

 

[Thunderhawks]

Hard to see them ditching the home button to be honest. Wouldn't be the same replacing it with a software version. Especially when apps crash and are unresponsive to any software inputs.

We could always buy a round label and stick in on the glass for those with

HBWS (Home Button Withdrawal Symptom)

I hope the iPhone 7 display's resolution is 1080p.

256 GB please too.

 

[iMcLovin]

thats a very cool iphone concept indeed, maybe the best Ive seen. Physical homebutton and adjustable menus around, very cool 🙂 unless its possible to add the fingerprint sensor into the screen, then it would be pointless with a physical button.

 

[Rogifan]

The concept looks like it punched a hole throught the screen and shoved a physical home button and its Touch ID ring in there. Whether that's physically possible or not is up for debate.

That's the problem with graphic design concepts - no actual engineering is involved.

 

[Jsameds]

What do you like about it? I've never been a fan of this guys mockups. Not much imagination. I mean two years ago his TV mockups featured a box with chamfered edges and a remote that looked like a skinny iPhone 5.

You need your eyes testing, the concept in the picture looks amazing! The mockups look better than the retail devices IMO. Here's the ATV one you mentioned, followed by what we got.

 

[AnthonyHarris]

I don't think the home button is going anywhere until they can implement the fingerprint scanner so that it sits beneath the screen and works using '3D Touch'.

 

[cogitodexter]

The concept looks like it punched a hole throught the screen and shoved a physical home button and its Touch ID ring in there. Whether that's physically possible or not is up for debate.

I was wondering that myself. I'd be worried all the liquid crystal would leak out.

 

[Jsameds]

I don't think the home button is going anywhere until they can implement the fingerprint scanner so that it sits beneath the screen and works using '3D Touch'.

If only they could make the TouchID sensor into a little screen so there's no hole-punch through the display, like this.

 

[loekf]

Full layout iphone to make way for those insignificant shortcuts? can't be real. Oh wait, the concept is only a bait for photocopierS.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is more than one possible iPhone 7 design floating around in the offices of Joni Ivy & co. So talking to Synaptics could be a plan B. Same as the efforts to go Sapphire glass for iPhone6. Removal of the home button could be an option, now we're heading to a "tic" iPhone 7, so new exterior, small step for CPU performance.

 

[rp2011]

I don't foresee the home button going away either. Actually I think it will remain and that the space on either side will gain touchpad-like sensitivity for further actions. Like for example to scroll around for easier text editing. That bottom section would have made a better place for force touch like on the new macbooks instead of the entire screen.
It would also set up ios for a greater productivity feature set on the smaller non-Pro tablets.

 

[Andres Cantu]

256 GB please too.

As long as they double all the current storage capacities, I'm good with that 🙂

 

[Apple Corps]

Not sure why these kinds of hypothetical renderings are used in articles with genuine news. I cannot remember when any of these kind of renderings were confirmed by actual products.

Maybe because this site is MacRumors - not MacNews

 

[Sonmi451]

Just shrink the damn bezel. Then maybe I can actually carry around a 7 Plus. There's not much else bad with the 6S. Keep improving the camera, even if it sticks out.

Maybe because this site is MacRumors - not MacNews

It should be renamed MacClickBait if we're honest about it.

 

[rp2011]

It should be renamed MacClickBait if we're honest about it.

That's Mac Daily News. They already have that covered. Covered in pop up ads that is.

 

[scapegoat81]

Here is a list of things I'm looking forward to in iPhone 7:

1.) Significant reduction in top and bottom bezel (they can relocate the home button to the side and incorporate Touch ID onto the screen).

2.) Get rid of the camera hump (this can be done by using multiple camera sensors).

3.) Get rid of the ugly antenna lines (by bringing back the glass inserts from iPhone 5).

4.) Switch to an OLED display (I bought an LG OLED TV last year and nothing even comes close to it's picture quality).

Well, according to all the rumors so far, non of these will happen next year, so I am probably describing iPhone 8. 🙁

All of the above is what it's gonna take for me to upgrade my 6s. Also significant battery life improvements

 

[CFreymarc]

Hard to see them ditching the home button to be honest. Wouldn't be the same replacing it with a software version. Especially when apps crash and are unresponsive to any software inputs.

Exactly, I do no see the mechanical home button disappearing because of the fingerprint scanner.

 

[Rogifan]

You need your eyes testing, the concept in the picture looks amazing! The mockups look better than the retail devices IMO. Here's the ATV one you mentioned, followed by what we got.

Who wants a TV box with chamfered edges? And the remote looks like a skinny iPhone. Might as well then just use an iPhone. Though I'm not sure how you'd swipe on that remote as it has no trackpad like surface.

 

[Jsameds]

Who wants a TV box with chamfered edges? And the remote looks like a skinny iPhone. Might as well then just use an iPhone. Though I'm not sure how you'd swipe on that remote as it has no trackpad like surface.

Me for one, it looks gorgeous. Much better than that ugly black box they came out with. The design of the ATV4 just doesn't say "Apple" to me at all.

 

[CFreymarc]

Here is a list of things I'm looking forward to in iPhone 7:

Fire away!

1.) Significant reduction in top and bottom bezel (they can relocate the home button to the side and incorporate Touch ID onto the screen).

With the stronger aluminum, this is possible but will be a pain for cases to avoid covering the screen while protecting the phone. Also, incorporating the fingerprint scanning on that size of a screen is not economic.

2.) Get rid of the camera hump (this can be done by using multiple camera sensors).

Don't see this happening. One reason why the hump is there is all of the shadowing cases we causing on cameras on previous generation phones.

3.) Get rid of the ugly antenna lines (by bringing back the glass inserts from iPhone 5).

I believe we will see a whole new industrial design that will be as radical of a transition of the like from the 3 to the 4.

4.) Switch to an OLED display (I bought an LG OLED TV last year and nothing even comes close to it's picture quality).

This is quite possible. OLED, considering the process, has tricky power control issues when working at high frame rates.

Well, according to all the rumors so far, non of these will happen next year, so I am probably describing iPhone 8. 🙁

I do not see the name "8" happening. My take is the "7" may not happen either with a new naming scheme starting.

 

[Rogifan]

Me for one, it looks gorgeous. Much better than that ugly black box they came out with. The design of the ATV4 just doesn't say "Apple" to me at all.

Huh? It looks just like the TV 2 and 3 boxes except that it's taller to accommodate a bigger heat sink. I don't need my TV box to be beautiful, I need it to fade away so I hardly know it's there, which the black plastic TV does. I certainly don't need a big glowing Apple logo on my box.

Note, that after the iPhone 6 came out Hajek changed his concept to mirror the iPhone 6 design. Hence my comment about no originality. It's not like it takes much thought to make the remote be a skinny iPhone. Though I'm not sure why I would need a remote with a display running iOS. I doubt you'd get 3 months on a charge.

 

[2457282]

The idea of expanding the screen real estate without increasing the phone size, is really appealing to me. I have the 6s and that is plenty big of a form factor. If they could use the entire surface of the 5s, I would downsize. but even at the 6s size increased screen without having to go to the plus size is a good thing. As for this particular concept, not sure, but the idea is right.

 

[melendezest]

Miss Steve here:
"customers don't know what they want until we've shown them!"

and Henry Ford:
“if I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

I'm sorry but am I the only one who is sick of hearing those quotes?

In an era of "revolution" it makes sense, but the adage does not apply every time, especially in the context of current Apple products.

The revolution already happened (the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad). What we have here now are "mature" products that will not fundamentally change.

I know what I want:

I want multiple user accounts on mobile devices
I want more RAM in sealed/mobile devices, not the bare minimum
I want access to the file system in mobile devices
I want ease of connectivity and compatibility (as in NOT proprietary)
I want to install whichever OS version I prefer (or at least revert to the one that came with my device)
I want portable computers with upgradeable components (RAM, HD)
I want desktop computers with upgradeable components (at least Graphics Cards, RAM, HDs)

Curerntly, Apple does NONE of the above.

I'm all for innovation and revolution, but not at the expense of functionality in the current environment.

 

[hglk]

Hard to see them ditching the home button to be honest. Wouldn't be the same replacing it with a software version. Especially when apps crash and are unresponsive to any software inputs.

That is precisely why Apple Sandboxes heavily on iOS.

 

[JimmyHook]

I hope the iPhone 7 display's resolution is 1080p.

Why do people want their phone to have the same resolution/format as their tv? The current iPhone (plus models) has over 400 pixels per inch. That's beyond sufficient. There is exactly zero need for an increase. The only time it would be useful is if the screen needed to be positioned within an inch or two of your eyes, for a hypothetical VR situation. For normal operations, I would be disappointed if Apple increased the pixel count needlessly which would just drain battery life.