iPhone 6 Said to Adopt 'Bezel-Free' Display

[Boomish69]

I think it's a load bull that Apple have waiting till the right tech does along to get these screen sizes, they could have done these ages ago..

 

[topmounter]

4.7" is a nice size for a phone if you don't carry a purse or wear a fanny pack all the time. I'm not crazy about the look of those mock-ups though with the zero-bezel design on the sides.

I'll be curious to see if they can add anything compelling enough to the iP6 to get me to replace my current 4.7" phone and jump back on the iOS bandwagon

 

[eggersj]

I take the large one in white , please! Looks real sexy!

 

[kalsta]

With a sapphire crystal display ( and if they go to a glass back a la iPhone 4/4S) there won't be a need for a case since it will be basically indestructible (under reasonable stress).

Uh, no. Sapphire is very hard, meaning it resists scratching, but it is brittle. Drop a phone with sapphire front and back, and it will shatter all your current beliefs about indestructibility.

 

[Doomtomb]

1. I think we've seen this with every iPhone mockup.
2. There's actually very important function to a bezel. It protects the screen if it were dropped face-down or on it's side.

With bezel-less design for a phone, it would only take 1 drop to crack the screen.

 

[ActionableMango]

I don't want bezel free. How am I going to put a case on? I like the raised rim protector cases to keep my screen from being flat on a table as my phone lives face down on my desk all day.

My raised-rim case for 5S doesn't cover the bezel at all.

 

[djgamble]

ugly mockups

I thought we'd seen them before for the iPhone 4, 4S, 5, 5S. Will we get to a stage where people stop reporting that somebody has made a mock-up of an iPhone with a larger screen that goes all the way to the edge of the current phone?

Apple COULD do massive screens like Samsung and co. They don't... live with it!

 

[Paulshaqz]

i honestly don't think it looks ugly i'm digging no bezel i know most of you might hate it now but you will still buy it everyone said the same thing about the gold iPhone and it end up being the most popular one for a min.

 

[jebus01]

looks like my concept from 2011 suddenly is not so far off anymore?

 

[yinz]

I think the top and bottom bezels still hinder the size of the device. They really need to reduce that home button some more... It just seems not proportional. I'm sure this mock up is just a terrible representation of what the next iPhone might be, but I sure hope they reduce the top and bottom bezels as well.

 

[B4U]

Just the usual way:
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Not until the designer of the 30 pin to lightning adapter passes GD&T training with the case designer...

Because of their incompetence, I tossed away 39 bucks...

 

[tjl3]

I've been using a phone with a 4.7 inch screen, no bezel that's made out of a single piece of aluminum for almost a year now. It's called the HTC One and it's the best phone I've ever owned. I can do much, much more with it than the two iPhones I had previously.

If these mockup's are correct about the next iPhone then it's truly an example of Apple doing nothing but copying everybody else and playing catch up - like they did with so many features they put in IOS 6 and 7. Since the demise of Steve Jobs Apple has just been drifting in a rudderless ship. Hope it's not named the Titanic.

No bezel, weird... it has one of the largest sets of side bezels of all Android phones on the market now. Let's not forget that the bottom bezel is actually larger than the top. Also, it's not a single piece of aluminum, it is several sheets of aluminum fused (glued) together, don't believe it? Go back to the launch videos.

 

[nealh]

Please tell me it the 4.7in phone will be wider and not just taller!

 

[the8thark]

How many laptop sizes, iPod sizes, iPad sizes, and iMac sizes do they have? You actually believe Apple cant make just TWO screen sizes of phones successfully. WOW.

If you let it get out of hand who will bring Apple back into line? There is no Jobs to do this. More SKUs in itself is not a bad thing. But adding them without real thought (like in the 90's) is bad. A phablet is the worst of both worlds. Not quite a great phone, and not quite a great tablet. And Apple does not do "not quite good" anything. Apple is there to make the best products. And phablets are the best at nothing.

In all honesty, I don't care how many SKU's they have. If they have a larger phone then I will stay with them. I want to stay in the echo system and I want to stay with iOS. I want a larger screened iPhone.

Dump the remainder iPhones the 4 and 4s along with the "C" if that makes you feel better. I haven't looked but did you say the same thing about the "C" when it came out in all it's colors?

Of course you probably didn't like the fact they had so many SKU's for the iPod too. Sorry I don't buy it.

Sorry, if the item is selling, they can have more SKU's. If it isn't selling, dump it. Which at this point Apple seems willing to do.

Maybe you don't care but others do. And as I said above a phablet is the best at nothing. And Apple don't do a product unless they believe it's the best. If Apple stray from this great principle and make a phablet, that'll be a mistake from Apple.

The iPod is different. It's not the same thing just with a larger screen. Each iPod had it's own market. I think now the classic needs to die though. And the rest of the iPod SKUs need to be seriously re-thought.

Why is that a problem? They sell 3 models of iPhones now with 2 screen sizes.
They sell the iPhones 5s and 5c with 4 inch screens and they sell the 4s with a 3.5 inch screen.

They could drop the 4s to add the iPhone 6 with a larger screen (4.7 to 5 inch) and still only sell 3 models and two screens sizes just as they do now...........

http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/

The issue as I said above is a phablet is the best at nothing. And Apple does not make a compromise product ever. (if Apple still has any sense at the top). And this larger iPhone some people want is a phablet. And by definition a phablet is a compromise product.

Apple need to slowly one day remove the 4S and just keep the 5S/C and have an iPhone 6 at the same screen size.

 

[Jess13]

In my opinion, the mock-up looks slick.

I just had a thought regarding Sapphire displays for iPhone.

The home button/fingerprint sensor is Sapphire. If Apple decides to use a Sapphire display instead of glass for the screen, perhaps Apple also plans to incorporate its home button/fingerprint scanner into the actual screen as well. So iPhone would have very thin top bezel for phone speaker, proximity sensor, camera, very thin bottom bezel for aesthetic purposes, with almost no side bezel. More screen, without the excessive Scamsung phone size.

 

[Ieo]

How many laptop sizes, iPod sizes, iPad sizes, and iMac sizes do they have? You actually believe Apple cant make just TWO screen sizes of phones successfully. WOW.

Not to mention, apple already has set a precedent of offering two screen sizes with the same internals: iPad mini and ipad air. Two sizes of iPhone 6 (the 4.7 being only just slightly bigger in overall size than the current 4" 5S) plus the old 5S around as the discount model seems like a perfectly manageable lineup. Hell, three sizes of iPhone 6 (4", 4.7", and 5.5") plus the old 5S seems manageable.

I think the point of the bezel-less rumors is to get the overall size of the phone down, so I'm thinking the smallest will be 4.7 and the new design will keep the overall size down

 

[ry23]

I didn't read all of the comments; however, nobody mentioned it on the first page. I don't like the mock-ups at all because all the did was make the phone taller AGAIN. Even by getting rid of the bezel, it's not adding much extra screen. It's still 4 icons across... this mock-up makes me believe that the iPhone 10 picture will come to fruition at this pace. (pictured below)

http://forums.imore.com/attachments...geuploadedbyimore-forums1378838025.242623.jpg

 

[MacVista]

When a $lippery fini$h is not enough, no bezel mean$ more $hattered iPhone$.

 

[applefanDrew]

Uh, no. Sapphire is very hard, meaning it resists scratching, but it is brittle. Drop a phone with sapphire front and back, and it will shatter all your current beliefs about indestructibility.

Notice *under reasonable stress*. Dropping it is not reasonable stress.

 

[bushman4]

Hopefully Apple is reading this thread and knows about this 'bezel free' display that they're making.

 

[Quu]

That seems odd to me... A fingerprint scanner that makes unlocking your phone a breeze and dual flash for much more natural looking nighttime photos weren't enough, but a slightly larger display that might actually make it more difficult to use/hold the phone because it has no bezels would get you to upgrade? Hmm... Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

No that isn't it at all.

Fingerprint scanner = One feature
Fingerprint scanner + Larger Display = Two features.

I knew posting what I did would get a reply like this, rarely do people think things through on this forum.

 

[Dominicanyor]

Apple should be different. Making a bigger iPhone with the same software is nothing different about that. I think that iPhone 5s will be the last one I will get until apple create something different.

 

[OGDK]

The one on the far right doubles as a windshield.

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I think it's a load bull that Apple have waiting till the right tech does along to get these screen sizes, they could have done these ages ago..

Yeah, there's nothing tech-related holding Apple back from making larger screens, just software/fragmentation/marketing.

 

[aPple nErd]

if apple completely removes the side bezels, i will buy a 5s on launch day of the 6...

 

[OlegN]

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