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Here's What Apple's iPhone Could Look Like Every Year Through 2030
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It's easy to have a hole-punch if you don't have to accommodate an array of biometric sensors and projectors.
It won't actually look like that. Hopefully they don't do what Samsung did, and are much more subtle with it. Curving a screen over the edges is form over function, and is purely aesthetic. It is bad design because it doesn't add any readable screen area.
I thought that was because Apple's FaceID tech is different from with other manufacturers use. Budget smartphones don't even have a true equivalent? They just use the camera which is not nearly as secure?
It is the worst use case. It is bad design.
I really wish you guys would stop posting that dumb rumor of an off-centered hole punch. If people were pissed about the notch, that hole punch would definitely top it. I would definitely skip those models, even if they released them in deep purple.
I'd have no problem with an off-centre hole punch. I'd much prefer that to both the notch and the Dynamic Island.
Personally I’d rather have no camera in the front and a little hole punch camera in the back
I’d rather have no front camera than a hole. Face ID is kind of a requirement, though. But I don’t do selfies, and when I need to do a group picture, I just turn the phone around and take it blind(yes I’m that old), the rear camera will always be the camera of choice.
What I’m envisioning is a shift away from the smartphones or screens in general as the main way we interact with technology.
Something that allows us to interact with the digital world more seamlessly and naturally, without constantly staring at and tapping on a screen. The current phone design feels like it’s reaching the limits of innovation. Making the camera slightly better or shrinking a notch doesn’t move the needle anymore.
If Apple is just focused on refining the iPhone rather than preparing for what comes after it, they could end up like Nokia, leading in a category that’s about to be disrupted by something entirely new.
You are in a very small minority, so obviously it’s not realistic to expect Apple to release an iPhone without a front camera.
I miss the days when the tech community was excited about change and didn't complain about it…
But I think there's a good reason to do it. If the back camera becomes a big rectangle on the right side of the device, then they have more space for the front camera in the left corner. In the middle, two cameras have to be on top of each other, limiting the quality of the camera (or increasing the camera bump).
Sounds like a good reason to switch up the classic look in favor of a better product.
So you don’t actually have anything in particular in mind?
how do you anticipate people will interact with the digital world without their eyes and hands?
Constantly talking in to a microphone and listening to an earpiece?
Or are you looking for more of a neural implant situation?
Apple hasn't released any asymmetric notches.
"Cant innovate anymore" ironically refers to your using that phrase in a comment.
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I thought the speaking part would increase significantly. The concept has been around for a while but AI now makes it possible to have real conversations like talking to a person who truly understands everything you say. You could be walking down the street chatting with your ”AI friend” about what the weather will be like today and where you might find a nice café to go next. You only look at a screen if there is something visual that is too inconvenient to explain with words. Kind of like a real conversation with a real person you keep talking as long as that is the best way to communicate. And if you want to show a visual you grab a pen and paper (or an iPad) and draw it. But it would not make sense to take turns writing on paper instead of just talking.
And because of this shift I believe that touching the screen with your finger will decrease significantly. The screen will become more of a way to view things that are not worth explaining out loud. But if you want something to happen on the screen it is easier to just say something like do this and that.
And I really hope we do not end up with any implants.
I'm not seeing a major technological shift there, just using the same devices but more talking and listening than looking and typing
also, no thanks. you'll never catch me walking around talking to a computer. I've never been interested in voice control
Sorry but this image shows very little commitment, no? Just removing the bezel from the picture and leaving the frame in place is, quite lazy. I mean what's up with the top speaker in 2 years? I've heard of miniaturized vibrating "speakers", but I doubt Apple will ship something like this in 2 years time.
I had a phone with a "waterfall" display. There were plenty of cases for it. I liked it a lot.
Having abnormal hands, I need both hands to use a phone. The wraparound display allowed me to go home and go back by swiping the side of the screen with my off hand, easier than swiping from the bottom. (It was smart enough to ignore touches where I held it on the other side.)
I wish Samsung had kept making them. I suspect they'll probably bring it back to beat Apple to the punch.
My post was referring to the image in the OP that shows predicted 2028 and 2029 iPhone models with asymmetric notches.
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