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'iPhone Ultra' Screen Protectors Reveal Asymmetric Corners

enkiera said:
Probably more like this, the corners are rounded but it will be squared off hinge side to cover all the glass.

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Likely this. The screen protector being squared off is not proof positive Apple isn’t going to use rounded corners on the hinge side of the outer display. Accessories makers are likely not going to have any of that information right now, especially if Apple creates the rounded corners in software similar to how it does the dynamic island on the phone.
 
Oh, so Option 2 or 3 then:


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ThailandToo said:
Does this mean the front outside cover display will have those corners in left side and rounded on right? That would be fugly.
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This is how iPhone Ultra 3 will have a “larger” screen by making the radius squarish. You can already see signs of squarish right radius in macOS 27.
 
fire1113 said:
This is just a guess but they might use software to imitate a rounded corner on display (hinge side) to match the outside corner.
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It’s much more likely to be an extension of the bezel. See for example the iPad’s substantial bezel. Both on iPad and iPhone, you can see the border between display and black bezel even when the screen is off. Apple likely would want for the rounded corner to be visible that way even when the display is off. And there’s little benefit in not cutting off the corner of the display that way.

On the “silver” model, they might even make the corners white like the back side. (I miss the white bezels we had in the past.)
 
deuxani said:
So this one has me confused. The privacy version shows a cutout in the top right corner. So let’s speculate that this is true, it would mean the front face camera would be in that position.

If you would open the foldable, the internal camera could not be in the same location as there is no room internally to stack 2 cameras. So it would not be in the top left corner of the inside screen. It could also not be in the top right corner of the internal screen as there would be the camera plateau on the back.
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I think you have your spacial imagination confused. The outer screen is opposite the left side of the inner screen. So the inner camera cutout can be on the top right just like on the outer screen. And the camera plateau is what gives more inner space in the actual body; the front camera could still fit there. However, I could see them placing the inner camera closer to the middle, similar to the landscape camera on the iPad.
 
Highly possible that this could happen. However I don't have any issues with it. Don't think I will get one when it is lacking a telephoto lens.
 
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SvenLorenz1975 said:
I've never been less interested in a new Apple product than this.
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If you were less interested you'd just ignore the story and not take time to comment. You're very welcome to comment, of course, I'm just pointing out that if you just ignored the stories you would be even less interested in the product.
 
klasma said:
I think you have your spacial imagination confused. The outer screen is opposite the left side of the inner screen. So the inner camera cutout can be on the top right just like on the outer screen. And the camera plateau is what gives more inner space in the actual body; the front camera could still fit there. However, I could see them placing the inner camera closer to the middle, similar to the landscape camera on the iPad.
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I am not confused about that part 😂 I described 2 options and both don't seem possible. The original rumours had the internal screen front facing camera in the top left corner, that is not possible if the outer screen has a camera on the top right, because that would be in the exact same place and the phone is too thin to house both on top of each other.
And if you put the camera on the inside screen in the top right, it will be in exactly the position of one of the back cameras, there is no room to put 2 cameras on top of each other, even with that plateau. Just look at the internals of the iPhone Air. The foldable is supposed to be even thinner.
 
The iPhone “Ultra” looks hideous in comparison to the new Galaxy Z Fold 8. The asymmetry of the “Ultra” is off putting. I’m curious what the actual screen real estate of the “Ultra’s” interior screen will be. Those black bars when watching videos probably will be THICK.
 
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Must come as a surprise to anyone who thought that there would be rounded corners between the two halves of the screen.
 
deuxani said:
So this one has me confused. The privacy version shows a cutout in the top right corner. So let’s speculate that this is true, it would mean the front face camera would be in that position.

If you would open the foldable, the internal camera could not be in the same location as there is no room internally to stack 2 cameras. So it would not be in the top left corner of the inside screen. It could also not be in the top right corner of the internal screen as there would be the camera plateau on the back.

I really hope Apple is not going for the Samsung solution with putting the camera at 25% of the internal screen as that looks terrible and interferes with the UI in different orientations. I’d rather have it even in the bottom left or right hand corner, although I don’t see that happen.

It’s funny that with all the leaks it is still not clear where the 2 front facing cameras will be. In my opinion the best solution would be: outside screen - middle, internal screen - top left.
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Imagine Apple going the Apple way: putting the camera in the middle on the right side of the screen 😀
 
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123ABCDN said:
The iPhone “Ultra” looks hideous in comparison to the new Galaxy Z Fold 8. The asymmetry of the “Ultra” is off putting. I’m curious what the actual screen real estate of the “Ultra’s” interior screen will be. Those black bars when watching videos probably will be THICK.
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iPhone looks like a toy (Fisher Price “my first foldable”) compared to the Samsung. Those rounded corners are a joke.
 
No matter how thin the screen protectors are, 2 of them will have enough thickness to cause tension on the hinge mechanism of the phone. Unless Apple makes it with some sort of gap.
 
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Alex.ne said:
Imagine Apple going the Apple way: putting the camera in the middle on the right side of the screen 😀
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If they would market it as a portrait device when opened..... Most iPads also have the camera in the middle of the short side 😊
 
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