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Apple to Eliminate Home Button in 2017 iPhone
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cool i will wait for that then. iphones look so out of date in 2016. will be glad to see those disgustingly huge bezels disappear and say goodbye the circular home button. the s7 edge is probably the best looking phone out and i would love an iphone that had as good a screen/body ratio.
Nice phone to dream about. This iPhone has been rumored since like 2012 and I doubt it will happen in 2017.
They have to embed TouchID into the display to get rid of the home button completely.
With 3Dtouch they can add a new gesture, for example a force press to the bottom of the screen to simulate the home button press, but they still need to recognise the fingerprint in some way, unless they provide e new way to unlock the phone like retina scan. I do prefer the fingerprint, so I hope they'll be able to do something about it removing or reducing the bezel if it is not possible to put it into the display
A single sheet of glass, with dongles all over the place.
Apple design chief Jony Ive is said to have wanted to build an iPhone that looks like a single sheet of glass for several years
We thousands on macrumors and like sites might not, but the millions who only read the daily press and watch the nightly news where this year's iPhone release will be reported will not know any better and they'll go but it. No,?
I don't mind losing the home button if the functionality is replaced by something that works at least as well. I would love smaller bezels.
Please try and remember one point that pretty much everyone forgets.........
Just because you have a active screen area that could perhaps wrap around the device, even along every edge. there is no law that states you must at all times use all those pixels at all times.
One could very easily physically make that screen in a device, and then, upon the control of the app/software pick any area within the actual screen to display data on.
Think of a screen like a canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Just because there IS canvas around the sides of the frame as well as the front, does not mean the painter HAS to paint around the edges also.
Think of the screen as a black/blank canvas, and then, once you have that, you can select to illuminate/use ANY amount of the screen.
CRT tubes were like this, and never used all the tube.
With LCD panels we seem to feel we must at all times use every single pixel the panel has always.
But think about it. there is no reason whatsoever for this.
You could have a full wrap screen, and only display data on the flat area, leaving the sides, black for certain apps is you wanted.
iOS is just really well optimized for the iPhone hardware. I'm gonna keep my 5 (Non-S) for a fifth year and I don't even need a rumor to do that. It just works.
Actually even with large bezels and no edge screen I find my iPhone 6 a pain in the ass to use near the edges - the current Music app for example, moving position in a track near the start or end is really difficult as the input doesn't seem to be recognised very well. Poor App design as much as anything though...
I've got the 6 plus too and am considering the same thing. I'm also considering selling it soon....and buying a cheap SE to use for the next year while I wait for the major redesign (I.E. Which I do believe will happen with the 8). At least then I'd have a responsive phone to use for the next year...my 6 plus has slowed to a crawl!
Plus, I'm really tired of the 6/6s design and won't invest in a 7 with the same design.
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Sweet! I still use my 4S. The battery is getting bad though.
Do it! The SE is a terrific phone.. the best iPhone Apple have produced so far. It's super-snappy!
The problem is if this is true the surprise is now ruined and it won't have the same wow effect (or that Apple Magic feeling) if it was produced from no where on stage as a 'one more thing' and we will be shipping these in 3 months... It also gives competitors once again a lot of time to try and get something similar out the gate.
I think Timmy lied about doubling down on secrecy.
I think Timmy lied about doubling down on secrecy.
Actually I suspect that to originate from a lower-quality digitizer. It's amazing how accurate the 4S would recognize my typing and I'd hit the right key on the virtual keyboard in about 99% of all times.
On the 5, accuracy already deteriorated somewhat in comparison.
But with the 6+ the (felt) accuracy has dropped to maybe 90%, perhaps even less - despite the virtual keys being bigger (had that feeling from day one, so it can't be a Touchgate symptom).
Perhaps Cook saved costs at the wrong place or perhaps it's about time for Apple to update the digitizer to something like a higher-resolution mesh, akin to what they did with Retina on the displays.
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Nothing easier than replacing the battery yourself, thanks to the 4S originating from a time when Apple still used to produce devices providing easy access for self-servicing ...
Yes, because I really don't want to be able to pick it up and hold it without accidentally activating something on the display.
Seriously. Why? What would you want to display on the curved bits? You could put touch-sensitive controls there - that you would accidentally activate just by holding the phone. Maybe you could have the touch ID sensors around the edge so you didn't have to go to all that effort of putting your finger on the "home button" area... but having to make a determined action like that to verify your ID is arguably a good feature...
The nice thing about Apple designs used to be that they were functional. Now its form-over-function.
I know: put wrist-strap on it. Then they could always announce new bands if they had a slow news day. Actually, the idea would make a lot more sense on a watch.
Jony Ive said he wanted it to look like a SINGLE piece of glass...Ladies and gentleman, I present to you, the iPhone 8:
It wasn't hating on Samsung, it was simply saying that if the rumor is true, the edge to edge quality will be different on the iphone 8, or "go further", etc.
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Apple did a pretty good job of curbing unwanted touches with the iPad mini (and then other models) with its shrunken bezel. Give them some credit instead of complaining about something a year before it's supposed to exist.
