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Apple to Introduce a Curved-Glass iPhone 5?

Glass slicing machines? Am I missing something here? Cutting the glass to desired shape and grinding the edges is something, but slicing it? This sound like BS.
 
I really don't think the iPhone 5 will vary in shape to the iPhone 4. Apple may have a one year refresh, but to change the design after one year, is silly. I believe it will be called the iPhone 4S and will just have minor changes to the iPhone 4. I also believe Apple will release the iPhone 5 a year after that and the iPhone 5 will include a slightly altered shape. :apple:
 
JarScott said:
I really don't think the iPhone 5 will vary in shape to the iPhone 4. Apple may have a one year refresh, but to change the design after one year, is silly. I believe it will be called the iPhone 4S and will just have minor changes to the iPhone 4. I also believe Apple will release the iPhone 5 a year after that and the iPhone 5 will include a slightly altered shape. :apple:
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Why would they call the 6th iPhone the iPhone 5 ?

Doesn't make sense really. And the iPhone 3GS was a big update to the iPhone 3G. Worlds apart. Just because the outward look was the same doesn't mean the update wasn't major.

A lot of you guys put too much importance on esthetic and looks.
 
This just demonstrates that Apple is deeply conflicted, they don't know what to do with their uncertainty and anger.

One minute they sue Samsung, the next they admire and copy them. Poor Apple.

In public they act bold and confident. In private they cower with uncertainty.

In public they make billions, but it cannot bring them peace and true confidence.

It can't prevent their paranoid attitude, or the grip of fear. Perched precariously at the top, they are in fear of losing it.

It would be great to see them return to the "Apple Computer Days". The place in time where they made great products, didn't sue anyone, weren't paranoid or angry, and did the right thing.

When the attention was on their great products, not Steve the cult leader, marketing mastermind, and God to his followers.

Today you pay a premium to adopt the lifestyle, drink the Kool Aid, and kneel down to worship.

Apple? What a company.

Ya Gotta Laugh :)
 
McGiord said:
Glass slicing machines? Am I missing something here? Cutting the glass to desired shape and grinding the edges is something, but slicing it? This sound like BS.
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Umm not hard to do and is done all the time. Grinding it one way but another is you can slice it in the shape you want the polish/grind it the rest of the way.
 
Curved screens is a small produc design great solution

If it's true, it is an smart move. A curved screen can add viewing/touch area surface to any the device and yet maintain its compact form factor in other words, compared side by side, two devices may have the same width and length (and appear or be same thickness) and yet the one with the curved screen would display a noticeable larger image, which is one of the downfalls of small compact devices.

If done right, making sure that there is none or unnoticeable image distortion, a curved screen adds viewing angle to the screen and can also add a hair of unnoticeable thickness to a device, just enough to fit more hardware inside.:D
 
Rodimus Prime said:
Umm not hard to do and is done all the time. Grinding it one way but another is you can slice it in the shape you want the polish/grind it the rest of the way.
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I believe the glass already have the desired thickness and it is not sliced to get the thickness. They cut them with robots or some cutting machines to get it to the desired size (width and length), then the edges are ground to the desired profile all around it.
The curvature can be given either by sag/gravity bend over rollers, press bend, or air pressure over, and then the strengthening operation, and finally they are laminated (glued).

I mean slicing it: is not efficient for time, cost, and quality.

What do you mean by slicing?
 
I'll tell you one thing - it's not taking them 15 months to put an A5 in the iPhone 4, that's for sure.
 
boss.king said:
From my understanding this will be like the Nexus S, where the display has a slight concave. Anyone with Nexus S experience? What's it like?

I'm not sure how I feel about this. Or if I believe it.
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The Dell Venue has a convex screen and it's unbelievably smooth and comfortable.
 
I can't see Apple doing this really.

Anyway, over the next few years E-ink will start to take over the portable market and we might see a curved surface then. It will be cheaper.

Anyway if Apple does do it and it is a hit you know the competition will follow with similar models. Apple is always taking the big chances for the industry as a whole.
 
Curved glass on iPhone? Better not drop it...

I've seen enough iPhones with shattered glass from dropping them already. A case that rises up slightly at the edges prevents the glass from hitting the ground, but if the glass were curved, even a case around the edge wouldn't prevent the glass from hitting the ground.
 
mdesbiens said:
Point 1
Glass makers can't currently make curved glass.
This makes a lot of sense. Lenses, for example, don't actually exist.
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In fairness, it's very expensive and time consuming to make any lenses which aren't spherical sections - that's why you only get one or two aspherical elements in even the top-end lenses. Making them in the volumes required for iPhones, which sell orders of magnitude more than any other phone from any other manufacturer (member that the curved-glass Samsung phone, for example, is just one of their many models) would be an absolutely huge undertaking.

David
 
You know I've seen several people ask but no one actually directly answer the question.

What is the *practical* advantage of a curved screen. The most answer I saw was that people liked their Samsung phone. But I want to know why? What advantage specifically does it give you? I'm not interested in answers like it looks cool or something really subjective like that. I want to know what functionality does it add?

I'm just curious cause I see so many people excited about the idea and I don't understand why it's so exciting (I didn't understand why Samsung was all excited about offering a curved screen either. THe ads I saw never seemed to explain any advantages, just that it had one and I should be excited about that).
 
tigress666 said:
You know I've seen several people ask but no one actually directly answer the question.

What is the *practical* advantage of a curved screen. The most answer I saw was that people liked their Samsung phone. But I want to know why? What advantage specifically does it give you? I'm not interested in answers like it looks cool or something really subjective like that. I want to know what functionality does it add?

I'm just curious cause I see so many people excited about the idea and I don't understand why it's so exciting (I didn't understand why Samsung was all excited about offering a curved screen either. THe ads I saw never seemed to explain any advantages, just that it had one and I should be excited about that).
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And some have not fully read the different posts...
 

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McGiord said:
And some have not fully read the different posts...
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Ah, ok, still not excited. Nothing on there that is specific to the curve of the glass and not the display quality says to me this is something to care about one way or the other (unless it's going to ruin some other function like if they curve the back to match it will be annoying to use that phone on a flat surface. Some of us actually use our smartphones as something other than phone and sometimes it's nice to be able to put it down and use it, after all if we just wanted a phone we'd just buy a cheaper non smart phone).

I mean some of it is nice (Sure, less glare is nice but honestly, I just am not annoyed by glare that much. In fact, I prefer my MBP's glossy screen cause the colors look better and glare just doesn't annoy me all that much, I'm pretty good at tuning it out).
 
Bertmg said:
If it's true, it is an smart move. A curved screen can add viewing/touch area surface to any the device and yet maintain its compact form factor in other words, compared side by side, two devices may have the same width and length (and appear or be same thickness) and yet the one with the curved screen would display a noticeable larger image, which is one of the downfalls of small compact devices.

If done right, making sure that there is none or unnoticeable image distortion, a curved screen adds viewing angle to the screen and can also add a hair of unnoticeable thickness to a device, just enough to fit more hardware inside.:D
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Interesting - thanks for sharing
 
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