iPhone 19 Pro Prototype in Testing Allegedly Has Quad-Curved Display

[ayephoner]

Apple is so dumb. Apple is so dumb. Apple is really, really dumb.

 

[p96]

Someone at Apple's Crack engineering team recalled this iPhone 6 concept and made a whole prototype on it. Insane.

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Perfect, buttons on the side in a flat plane of glass you can't feel but will eagerly trigger actions just from being held! I (opposite of) love it!

 

[USB-Adapter]

That looks pretty cool! I can't wait for Apple to explain why I need it.

 

[DrJR]

Screen time goes way down when you can’t grip it to pick it up off a flat surface. It’s a feature!

 

[TheMacDaddy1]

Will you be able to turn off liquid glass?

 

[seek3r]

Wait… if the folding phone gets the ultra moniker, as we keep seeing rumored, will the 20th anniversary be the Extreme? This might get ridiculous. Lineup:

iPhone 19e
iPhone Air 2
iPhone 19
iPhone 19 pro
iPhone Ultra 2 (or iPhone 19 Ultra)
iPhone Extreme (or iPhone 19 Extreme)

 

[Virtually]

Cue all the posts about how this doesn’t add anything useful. 🙄

Oh, wait. That’s what I think!

It does make it possibly the ugliest phone ever to be sold. That's useful to its competition.

 

[Virtually]

Spherical phone. Has no corners.

A palantir.

 

[Virtually]

How do you hold it?

It doesn't matter it's an iPhone so however you hold it, it's wrong.

 

[OldNewMBP]

Hold up, this image looks suspiciously like the "20th Anniversary" iPhone that was in that other article.

 

[haemolysis]

The only thing I can see them actually using the edges for is the annoying “rainbow AI” effect when Siri is envoked.

Which… eww.

 

[Sital]

If I drop it on the ground and it cracks in half, do I now have a new iPhone mini?

No, you have two.

 

[UltimaKilo]

Everyone here freaking out. That device is so far out that you need to take these rumors with a MASSIVE grain of salt. If this was March 2027, you could give it more weight.

 

[eifelbube]

Cue all the posts about how this doesn’t add anything useful. 🙄

Oh, wait. That’s what I think!

Not only Curved Glass … Liquid Glass doesn’t add anything useful either.

 

[OldNewMBP]

No, you have two.

Or a brand new iPhone Ultra, if you had the skill.

 

[gigaguy]

I guess 20 years is a big deal and curvy glass etc. But I'm still loving my discounted
iP-Air. Such a refreshing change after years of heavyweight Pro Max slabs.
Will there come a time when buyers say enough to $1500 --$2000+ Phones?
Probably not. I see BEast Buy has new Airs for $849... jusayin...

 

[svish]

Think the 20th anniversary iPhone will be special and it is possible for it to have both FaceID and front camera under the screen. Maybe Apple will go for a higher price tag of around $1499 for the special 20th anniversary iPhone.

 

[everything-i]

Oh great another slippery phone with no edges to hold it securely.

 

[The Game 161]

Curious how this looks. Should be change in smartphone market

 

[ayephoner]

Curious how this looks. Should be change in smartphone market

My theory is that this will not be nearly as dramatic as the images, nor as people think. I think they are trying to reduce the bezels as much as possible. This won't be the screen rolling onto the side of the phone. It will simply be the screen extending to the edge, and the glass rolling to meet the side, very similar to the apple watch, but even less of a rolling edge. The want the screen-to-body ratio to be as close to 100% as possible. I think that's a great thing.

 

[seek3r]

A palantir.

Aka the iScry 🙂

 

[eifelbube]

Even the iPhone X wasn’t an anniversary phone, it was just… the next generation of iPhone.

Could the X have been both, maybe? Because it came out in 2007+10 as “10” when it should have been “9” and marked the 12th generation iPhone. I have never seen it not referred to as an anniversary phone.

 

[eifelbube]

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[eifelbube]

Apple keeps phone design the same...board complains. Rumored design change...board complains.

board complains about rumored design change specifically, not generally …

 

[eifelbube]

Sigh. Form over function rides again.

Bezels serve a purpose. I quite like to be able to pick up my phone or hand it to someone without activating a bunch of random functions - and the flip case I usually use would cover these edge displays anyway.

I agree. But I doubt, the edge area will be touch-active. It will give Apple the opportunity to expand on the Dynamic Island metaphor , i.e. active-screen-is-the-sea theme by referring to the edge area as “Static Shoreline” 😀😜