No evidence of Apple doing anything with graphene. I have yet to see NFC catch on. Larger screens are a bit late yes. The rest of your post is speculation so no point in commenting on that.
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Graphene May Be Next Area of Innovation for Apple and Samsung
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No evidence of Apple doing anything with graphene. I have yet to see NFC catch on. Larger screens are a bit late yes. The rest of your post is speculation so no point in commenting on that.
if you do not care about the thinnes of the iphone get yourself a battery case for iphone
I do care about thinness. But the whole transparent ultra thin thing sounds a little ridiculous to me. Can you imagine how difficult it will be to find a transparent ultra thin phone while it's on standby?
I know I (And DEFINITELY others) have been mentioning this for at least 2 years now, and we are JUST NOW hearing about it?
Also, although we are far away from this level of manufacturing, you could make a phone out of mostly non-toxic carbon due to its strength and conductive properties.
Also, although we are far away from this level of manufacturing, you could make a phone out of mostly non-toxic carbon due to its strength and conductive properties.
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Have you not seen the trend? Batteries take up far too much space. They are an obstacle to both "thinner" & "lighter". They have to go. Sure the future iDevices won't run without power but WOW!.. will they be thinner!
Dude you say the same things over and over, yawn!!!
You never know. Samsung is sometimes ahead of everyone.
For example, Samsung began using Liquid Metal back in 2002 for phone bezels and hinges that were dent and corrosion resistant.
They kept using it on their phones, and in 2008 they released a luxury phone with an entire chassis made of Liquid Metal.
It wasn't until 2010 that Apple came out of nowhere and bought up perpetual rights. Sometimes I think that acquisition was just part of their "war" against Samsung.
The biggest problem with Thunderbolt and Lightning is that it is very, very frightening.
I'm still unsure if you were being sarcastic or not. You say "No evidence of Apple doing anything with graphene". Is this sarcasm too?
As for NFC. You must be speaking of it as a payment method solely in the United States. I agree, but that's a restricted view of NFC. And what exactly in my post was speculation? The delayed GPS, MMS, and c/p? Those are facts.
I'm sure they're testing lots of stuff, but no evidence of putting it into production. NFC has potential, but is not used here, and not widespread in europe either. I was in europe for about half of last year so I have a good idea. I am not an NFC hater, and have little opinion on whether or not Apple implements it.
Europe is not homogenous. I've been using NFC for quite some time to pair devices, send automated messages, set alarms and whatnot. Nowadays it can be used for payment (25 or less) pretty much at every grocery store and all (?) new payment terminals will have this feature. It is used in public transportation, loyalty cards and lots of different devices.
Good First Use for Graphene
Here's something that could be good first use for graphene: put a layer of graphene on DVDs, CDs, and Blu-Ray discs. This would provide a lot more protection to the disks and it's low tech so the quality of the graphene doesn't matter. Later, make the substrate out of graphene and that would improve the durablity of the optical media and, if it's of any importance, cut down on the weight.
Here's something that could be good first use for graphene: put a layer of graphene on DVDs, CDs, and Blu-Ray discs. This would provide a lot more protection to the disks and it's low tech so the quality of the graphene doesn't matter. Later, make the substrate out of graphene and that would improve the durablity of the optical media and, if it's of any importance, cut down on the weight.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicity
Water toxicity is a thing.
Anyway, isn't the new material 2D boron?
