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iPhone 16 Rumored to Feature Even Thinner Bezels
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I've been saying this since the iPhone X. I miss having the top and bottom of the device to hold onto when taking video.
It is remarkable how Apple sold a bigger and more intrusive notch to users by making it a software feature that nobody actually uses or cares about. I think it worked for about 2 days. Apple's Reality Distortion Field ain't what it used to be.
If you can fit a sub atomic particle on the bezel, its too thick.
Read the last paragraph
"It is not clear whether the slimmer bezel technology is destined for the standard iPhone 16 models, the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, or both. It may be more likely to appear singularly in the iPhone 16 Pro models since these devices are expected to see display size increases from 6.1- to 6.3-inches and 6.7- to 6.9-inches, without a substantial increase in overall size. It is also worth noting that Apple reduced the bezels of the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max last year significantly more than the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus. Last month, a report coming out of Korea suggested that BIS technology will come to the entire iPhone 16 lineup."
You didn't get my point at all.
I am not talking of Porsche as superior to the competitor, but solely of it's iconic design. What has marketing to do with the design?
I can distinguish a Porsche from a mile because of its design. I can not tell you which year it was built in, but I can tell you it's a Porsche (911).
Same goes for iPhone.
I want no bezels just screen, even the 15 pro max bezels are huge with the space black iPhone you can see the huge bezels around it
I mean...fair enough, but it's not something that improves the usability in any tangible way.
More excited for the AI cores in the SOC, the action button (on normal models) and the improved ultra wide angle camera.
More excited for the AI cores in the SOC, the action button (on normal models) and the improved ultra wide angle camera.
Perhaps three or four years minimum this time... I can't see what improvements we really need from the iPhone 15Pro Max. Maybe one camera lens with a sensible focal length rather than 3 with unhelpful focal lengths? 😅
No. It doesn’t. It is essentially perfect.
These curved displays came with the worst glare effect and were never interesting IMO. Note that the bezel on this is actually as thick as iPhone 6.
I care about bezels more than I probably should lol
iPhone 15 Pro Max looks amazing with those thin bezels and lightly curved glass but I'm always excited for even thinner bezels 🤩
iPhone 15 Pro Max looks amazing with those thin bezels and lightly curved glass but I'm always excited for even thinner bezels 🤩
All I want is a phone that’s all screen with no ports. Is that too much to ask?
Smart phones are what they are: pieces of glass in a frame that house the user interface. Not much you can do about that. A button here, some millimeters there, a different colour… they are all the same. You can maybe fold them, but that’s about it.
All smartphones have evolved into mature, boring looking rectangles, irrespective of brands. Which is fine. Hammers have also been mature for centuries and are great tools for their intended jobs 😄.
What software feature does nobody care about? I think dynamic island is very useful.
They are shrinking the bezels year by year by a very tiny fraction. So they can promote that as a new feature until they have no bezel anymore to shrink.
And everyone I knew who had these phones had cracked displays because you can’t have a case protection the sides and they are the most vulnerable parts.
I would rather not have super thing bezels because then screen protectors and cases are going to get in each others way.
I agree that the current form factor is not likely to change much, and many would be upset if it did. Most are used to it. Some talked about other form factors like foldable, but I doubt that would ever become a majority of the market.
Instead I wish Apple would spend some time looking into the actual day-to-day use most people give the device and improve that experience. As a long time (30+ years) Apple customer, it just feels like they don’t place as much emphasis on providing highly intuitive, straightforward access to functionality as they used to. I’m much more annoyed (for example) that I can’t use my finger to quickly place a cursor where I want (due to all the auto select crap), or autocorrect behaving like it is trying to slow me down through outlandish substitutions, or Maps having tons of severely outdated information on businesses, than I am about the basic form factor of the phone. The things I’ll be doing many times over the time I own the device are what matter most. Try to innovate THAT!
Ha yes and I and especially everyone I ever met that had that phone are all very glad they stopped doing that.