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iPhone 14 Pro Now Rumored to Feature Both Pill-Shaped and Circular Cutouts
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No, its not...this is a mess, think about the future
I hope that exclamation mark looking design isn't chosen.
What's the point in having that small space and it breaks symmetry lines doing that.
What's the point in having that small space and it breaks symmetry lines doing that.
LMAO at this point I think Apple is trollin the leakers and finding out with all these changes who's doing the leaks
Not like it was not done before
Looks clean but then it means the top area with the same width of the pill is useless to project an image on anyway! So why not stick with an even smaller notch with minimal depth - have the depth that the blank area+pill is in that area and we're good.
Notch haters, I hope you’re proud of yourselves for making Apple resort to this truly awful design. I was thinking of getting the Pro next year, but I genuinely might stick with the regular 14 if it looks like this.
I can't see Apple doing an off-center design like that. It will either be an extended pill, or given the mix of rumors, I think that it will be a pill shape in the center, with the dot off to the side, but only that part will be under the display. Because it's projecting instead of receiving light, I think this may make it more likely. The sensors to receive the dot projection back to the phone will be in the pill. The dot projector just has to scatter in a way that can determine depth, so if there is some interference from passing through the display, I would think that should be able to be accounted for in software.
Well, it's not a concept, it's a leak, from a reliable source, and the animosity towards it almost guarantees it's legit.
I guess it doesn't bother me that much but I still rather have more actual screen I think? Especially when watching videos.
It does, even if it does not look great. Most people defending the notch are just opposed to the change. If you showed all these same people a picture of the notch and a picture of the pill/hole design before the launch of iPhone X, 100% of them would have chosen the "smaller one that doesn't take up as much of the screen".
Eh, it's still just a phone. The notch or no notch isn't really making a difference. I watch videos on iPad so I can see them.
And what will you use the extra real estate above the cut out for?
Two irregularly shaped cutouts side-by-side seem very half-baked to me. If openings are indeed needed for components, I think Apple designers should/will combine into one shape.
Likely has to do with the polarization of OLED screens and the infrared dot projection. It may never be able to be an under the screen technology. Not that it matters at all, I'm not clamoring for more real estate on my phone - we're truly at the point where nothing matters but battery life as far as I'm concerned.
