"...other than looks." Really? That's not a strong argument in an Apple forum. Apple cares about looks. They care about looks more than thermals and performance. You just provided the most compelling reason to think Apple might do this.
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Apple Planning iPhones With Touchless Gesture Controls and Curved Screens to Launch Within Three Years
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"...other than looks." Really? That's not a strong argument in an Apple forum. Apple cares about looks. They care about looks more than thermals and performance. You just provided the most compelling reason to think Apple might do this.
What if the phones themselves wouldn't have a screen that big, but a concave glass that would expand the display to look as big as the phone while there is a small micro LED display powering it up beneath. At that point, these touch less gestures would be needed because even when you do touch the screen, it wouldn't mean touch-screen the way it means today.
Think about it. Too futuristic... I know. I've always fantasized the phone to be a simple glass brick that is almost see through. I know that's impossible. But given how expensive MicroLED they claim to be, may be this way they could get it to work on phones with a smaller footprint of the actual display panel and use curved glass display to create an illusion of a full screen display.
An early in the day Tech Fiction
Imagine a meeting @ Cupertino regarding future hardware.
Tim: "Next item on agenda: iPhone X future. Bring on the ideas!"
rest at meeting: "uhm... eh... errr... hmmm..."
I've whined, I mean, I've said it a dozen times now. Apple's grand idea of giving more to customers is by giving less and less each year. Less buttons, less upgradeability, less options for physical interaction . They're running Apple like it's a design contest based in minimalism and it's getting pretty old. Stretch and pull is great but this feels like too much push.
That sounds cool, but if you want that don't get an X. It doesn't have a 5.8" display. If has a 5.6" with two tabs. The tabs show status content in some tasks. In full screen it blacks them out and only uses the main screen area. It's a good phone, but you need to understand how to use it.
If I understand the concept correctly that would produce a phone thicker at the top and the bottom than in the middle. That could permit longer focal-length lenses in the future, which is the biggest shortcoming of the iPhone X compared to compact digital cameras, IMHO.
Still defeats the whole purpose of the screen by limiting the viewed content to a square area with two tabs on the sides.
Then what do you spend $1200 on a phone for? To make calls? Or for multimedia purposes?
So that settles it.
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Put on Apple glasses and you won’t see it.
I got mine because It improved my productivity and therefore lets me make more money in less time. I found iOS has value android does not, and the X had best value of the iPhones I tried. For me at least the gestures, Face ID, and screen layout translate well.
Some apps just work better with the X’s layout. I also like the larger screen in the smaller body. The plus was cumbersome to use and while I tried waiting for an SE 2 the display widescreen on the X feels more natural. I’m used to 21:9 on my desktop.
Also, when I pull it out of my pocket I can tell its orientation without having to look. With the 8 I had to touch the home button to do that but that often unlocked the device and took me to the home screen. Reaching up to pull the notification bar down takes more time than with Face ID.
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Touchless gestures, unless they are inherently 3D, are actually worse than touch gestures. It is easier to perform a touch gesture than it is to hover a certain distance away from the screen. There is a margin of error with touch gestures (because you can overdo the force to ensure you are at least touching) that hasn't existed for touches gestures...it's also more comfortable to rest your finger on the screen.
Great, then I got my phone because I enjoy watching Netflix on the go, have Spotify always with me, check out the latest videos on youtube, make calls and send messages and go on social media, and to me the Notch bothers my immersion especially with videos. So your argument "Not all of us spend $1200 on a phone to watch TV." is very subjective.
My iPhone 7 already does this too. Although not as “well” as it sounds like your HTC 10 does.
Based on?
Based on the speculation of an unreleased product with little to no evidence actually exists or will exist?
Or based on taking Apple to a record market cap, record profits, record sales, and record unit sales?
Or based on having industry leading mobile silicon, the best selling watch in the world, or a 3D depth sensing camera module Samsung is already trying to copy?
Based on leading Apple to a record $88.3B in revenue and $20.1B in profit in 90 days in Q1 2018.
I strive to be an incompetent idiot.
OK... So I bought a phone because it does what I wanted better than the rest. You bought the same one because it doesn't do what you want. Sounds reasonable.