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Curved Handheld Displays Almost Ready for Market
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No, they were convex because that's all the technology for making a glass tube allowed. Until it didn't, and Sony figured out how to make them only curved side-to-side, not top-to-bottom. What an improvement. Eventually we got CRTs with a totally flat face, which was, as others have said, a huge and wonderful improvement.
And a concave display will not reduce glare. It would concentrate it all in one place, making that one place impossible (instead of merely hard) to read.
Monitors were also big, bulky, heavy, unportable boxes back then. They're still kind of unwieldy these days.
Watches, phones, even laptops are much more portable, so dealing with glare is much easier.
64bit is nothing but more throughput for data and system memory. Just like having 10 lane highway instead of a 4 way highway.
Apple should only use these if they genuinely make the product better.
I'm not surprised LG and Samsung are both gunning to be the first with curved displays; that's how those companies "design" their products. They pack them full of gimmicks (useful or not) to try and seem like there's some advanced technology there.
The thing that has always set Apple apart is that its designs make sense. They would only use these things if they really made for a better product. That's why I've always thought of Apple as an engineering-driven company (rather than a marketing-driven company like most others, although that's not to say that Apple will let their marketing be second-rate).
If that ever changes, and Apple make a curved iPhone that is just gimmicky and not more useful, then I'd start to worry about Apple's future. If they do that then they've lost the soul of the company.
I'm not surprised LG and Samsung are both gunning to be the first with curved displays; that's how those companies "design" their products. They pack them full of gimmicks (useful or not) to try and seem like there's some advanced technology there.
The thing that has always set Apple apart is that its designs make sense. They would only use these things if they really made for a better product. That's why I've always thought of Apple as an engineering-driven company (rather than a marketing-driven company like most others, although that's not to say that Apple will let their marketing be second-rate).
If that ever changes, and Apple make a curved iPhone that is just gimmicky and not more useful, then I'd start to worry about Apple's future. If they do that then they've lost the soul of the company.
Fwiw, Sony is reintroducing a curved-screen TV. Concave this time. http://store.sony.ca/webapp/wcs/sto...0153&langId=200&productId=8198552921666597708
I hope this comes soon, and not just for phones. I envision displays like the one used in Red Planet:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFeVHOmEvi8#t=2m42s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFeVHOmEvi8#t=2m42s
well that's just the thing isn't it, they'll have to come out with something to make it worth while, there are probably times in history we can look back and see people said "what would that be any good for?" and then turn around and they innovated something, and everyone wants one
but yeah, they gotta think of something first
Exactly what I was thinking...only those in Jonathan Ive’s Design Studio know the answer.
We'll have to wait until "they" leave one at the bar
Curved is cool but what about fully bent? I think a wrap around phone that can fold out to tablet type thing would sell great. I remember last year at ces Samsung showed a video of something like that but not sure they even had a real prototype.
yes, but if you find a solution then the problem will exist, ipso facto!
(I.e. you create the need! That is the beauty of marketing).
In the USA Today interview with Ive and Federighi Ive said that Apple decided to use multi touch in the iPhone before the iPad because they thought they could more easily demonstrate the value (i.e. most people has cell phones and didn't like them) with the iPhone. What is the value of a curved display for something other than a watch? Does it allow for a thinner device or more useful screen real estate without making the device bigger?
curved?
Im not sure why would you want a curved phone. It would be awkward in packets and add additional stress to the unit itself. Maybe on a watch, but other than that, I don't get it.
Im not sure why would you want a curved phone. It would be awkward in packets and add additional stress to the unit itself. Maybe on a watch, but other than that, I don't get it.
Wouldn't a concave surface collect just as much glare as convex?
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DuPont demonstrated them in 2001, definitely not too far off.
My leg is curved, if it matched the curve of my leg then it would actually be more comfortable and take up less space in my pocket.
I foresee more a very slight curve than anything extreme.
Though, if they made it very concave then I could also use it as a coffee mug, and that would be fantastic.