Apple's Rumored 6.1-Inch iPhone Said to Be 18:9 With 2,160×1,080 Resolution and Ultra-Slim Bezels

[NetMage]

Consumers no longer need to upgrade every year. There's nothing the iPhone X can do that iPhone 7 can't.

Low light, telephoto, portrait lighting, animoji and true hands free secure use would like a word with you.

Don't get me wrong, the iPhone 7 is great, and I might not have an X if I didn't need to pass my 7 down to my extended family, but don't think the X has nothing to offer over the 7.

 

[PickUrPoison]

With respect to aspect ratios, it’s interesting that a 6.1” display at 18:9 and a 6.5” at 19.5:9 both have the same width in portrait mode. So non-zoomed 16:9 content will be the same size.

Actually 2.728” vs. 2.724” but what’s a few thousandths of an inch between friends. Heights in portrait mode are 5.46” and 5.90” respectively.

 

[JPack]

Low light, telephoto, portrait lighting, animoji and true hands free secure use would like a word with you.

Don't get me wrong, the iPhone 7 is great, and I might not have an X if I didn't need to pass my 7 down to my extended family, but don't think the X has nothing to offer over the 7.

Like I said, consumers no longer need to upgrade every year....

 

[Tech198]

shave off the bezels at the same size and 'bob's-ya-uncle'..... a new phone

*but we didn't do anything special* Apple would say.

 

[PickUrPoison]

Argh! The aspect ratios are properly expressed as 2:1 and 39:18. Reduce your fractions, and both sides of a fraction should be an integer.

Mathematically more proper, but a common denominator is very helpful when making comparisons. Also, many people are familiar with 16:9.

So if you use 18:9 and 19.5:9, comparisons are easier. With some familiarity, it’s easy to say that (in landscape) both are wider than a common 16:9 display, and that the 19.5:9 is the widest. (For any given height of course.)

 

[unibility]

There will inevitably be a couple of posters who think thin-bezel LCD and notch are not possible.

I’m not sure about you but those bezels look to be pretty HUGE!!!

 

[ValO]

I think you mean MicroLED.
I'm expecting this technology to be released as soon as possible, for TVs, Notebook screens, smartphones... because it is stunning its quality and lacks the disadvantages of OLED screens. A MicroLED MacBook Pro... Wow. Just wow.

Yeah, great...
It will take 2 years untill it is used on apple watch, 4 years till iphone, 6 years till ipad/macbook. And that is a positive outlook....
At that time every is talking about how much better nanoled is...

 

[saudade]

Where's the notch?

The notch took the photo

 

[ValO]

This news makes me believe there will also be a smaller version of about $649.
Could be a 5.28 version, there were some rumors about it last year.
Perhaps it is the last year of having a lcd screen in iphones, they could go all -in for oled in 2019. Since it will be cheaper by that time.

 

[traveltoromantis]

I still don't quite get it. It seems to mean that I have to press harder to get certain things to happen on my phone, but I can't think of any particular advantage to that. I'm sure I must be missing something, but I don't think I would miss the pressing-harder bit.

I thought it was pretty useless until I discovered that using force touch on the keyboard lets you move the text cursor around. I use that often now.

 

[Ries]

Low light, telephoto, portrait lighting, animoji and true hands free secure use would like a word with you.

Don't get me wrong, the iPhone 7 is great, and I might not have an X if I didn't need to pass my 7 down to my extended family, but don't think the X has nothing to offer over the 7.

Low light: Slight improvement
telephoto: Meh, haven't ever zoomed to take a picture on a phone
portrait lighting: Meh, tons of apps have a gazillion filters, do we need one more...
animoji: Who uses that anymore, the initial karaoke ones are done and forgotten
true hands free secure use: Yeah, it's not like you have to hold it to use that hands free...

No point in upgrading, defintly not for $999 (or $1600 as it is here for the base model)

 

[Miguel Cunha]

the panels have an 18:9 aspect ratio, meaning their length is double their width.

This is the sweet spot in aspect ratio for every device to display films.
Aspect ratio of 2 is a good compromise between 1,78 TV and 2,35 Cinema.

I also love the almost inexistent bezels and if it doesn't have a notch, that would be the cherry on top of the cake!

Hopefully, in the future, this design will spread to the entire iPhone line, including a future iteration of the SE, now with s 4" display (it would increase to 4,7", in the same form factor).

I know, I know... Let me dream for a while...

 

[honglong1976]

Like I said, consumers no longer need to upgrade every year....

I still have a 5S!

 

[NorthSeaBeach]

Apple has my money if that rumoured 6.1 becomes reality.

 

[Unami]

I so hope they’ll also release something smaller. I played around with the X recently: Not my cup or tea, much too big (among other things).

 

[Rogifan]

I am one of those people. I don't need 3D touch at all, a long press could accomplish the same thing. I think Apple may be realizing this a bit. 3D touch makes any changes/improvements to the screen much more difficult.

Yet the rumor suggests only one of the new phones will come without 3D Touch. That doesn’t sound like a strategic re-think by Apple but some analyst speculating its a feature Apple would drop to meet a certain price point/margin. But it makes no sense as there are 3D Touch iPhones currently for sale at a cheaper price point than this rumored phone.

 

[Unami]

Is it only me who still can’t get used to 3D Touch?

I hate pressing down on a hard surface, feels really uncomfortable to me, like nails on a chalkboard. I only got it on the watch, but it‘s an unpleasant experience everytime i have to use it - as a consequence I only use my thumb, sideways. My wife got it on her 6s - I think she forgot about it 5 minutes after I showed it to her.

 

[Phonephreak]

Why do you care? Shouldn’t people with different needs than you, or people in other markets, be able to get phones they want? This nonsense about Apple’s product lines needing to be streamlined is insane.

It’s the largest company in the world with an ecosystem that locks people in. They need to have a reasonable diversity in their product line. Offering a variety of options is what allows them to keep people in their ecosystem, without them having to go to outside of Apple to get what they want.

This works both ways. Why do you care? You obviously do.

Apple fans always screamed about fragmention and how it’s bad. Now Apple lineup suffers from the same thing.

Same as the os. Apple is finally catching up to the features that android offers. And they have the same problems. Bugs in a extremely complex os. Apples big advantage was its simplicity matched with total hardware control. Shows that even with having total control of the hardware, software is hard.

 

[Mildredop]

No notch, no buy.

I agree - the notch is now synonymous with Apple. Without the notch it just looks like every other phone.

 

[Jsameds]

I never (intentionally) use 3D touch. (Sometimes my 7+ misinterprets a tap as a press)

A) most apps haven’t done anything useful with it. B) peek and pop to save some fraction of a second of just opening it is stupid. C) Time wasted fighting peek and pop when I actually want to just open it far exceeds the time saved anyway.

Switch it off then.

 

[Falhófnir]

It seems weird that the displays would have different aspects; surely Apple would want to avoid fragmentation and keep the new set of guidelines consistent? A shorter screen will have knock ons to how things are placed.

 

[DNichter]

Yet the rumor suggests only one of the new phones will come without 3D Touch. That doesn’t sound like a strategic re-think by Apple but some analyst speculating its a feature Apple would drop to meet a certain price point/margin. But it makes no sense as there are 3D Touch iPhones currently for sale at a cheaper price point than this rumored phone.

Yea I was more so just saying 3D touch is useless to me and I am not sure the technical challenges it presents are worth it in the long run. To your last point, they have cheaper phones with 3D touch, but these new ones are supposed to house the new display and have Face ID, which add to the cost. Looks like they needed to reduce the cost somehow and 3D touch was the one to go.

 

[Scottsoapbox]

Switch it off then.

I didn't realize I could. Thanks mate!
[doublepost=1516799585][/doublepost]The real problem with 3D touch is that it is not supported on all devices so you can't asign a crucial feature to it. Which makes less useful and more gimmicky.

 

[Vanilla35]

I am one of those people. I don't need 3D touch at all, a long press could accomplish the same thing. I think Apple may be realizing this a bit. 3D touch makes any changes/improvements to the screen much more difficult.

3D touch is actually a "better" implementation of a long press, however there were two issues with 3D touch. 1) Apple didn't release it with nearly enough uses. 3D touch to "share" an app is a joke. It was basically just utilized for peek and pop when it had so much more potential. 2) Long press is already mostly ingrained into people as a method of touch, and therefore it's more intuitive than pressing deeper; which is awkward, based on how touchscreens have worked in the past.

Basically, if Apple replaced all long press functionality with 3D touch when they first launched it, or the year after; it would have been ground breaking. Instead, it's a pita to some, and niche helpful for others.

 

[insomniac86]

One might argue that 3D touch is not as useful as others think, which by not including it on a 6.1 iPhone, will actually help reduce the cost of the new iPhone. Therefore others might see the price point more attractive.

The problem is some features can only be accessed via 3D Touch. For example you can't "clear all" notifications on an iPad Pro, it could be programmed to simply be a "long touch" but it isn't. This is a great example of how fragmented Apple design has become. Inconstancy everywhere.