All iPads Is a bezel-less iPad inevitable/possible?

[satchmo]

Just having a bit of speculative fun in thinking where future iPads are going. I mean it's difficult to further simplify what is essentially is a slab rectangle.
Sizes and resolutions will continue to fluctuate and perhaps new finishes.

But given Ive's penchant for 'distilling the extraneous', can we see a day where the iPad has no bezel? It would be cool to see images go from edge to egde.

I don't know the structural workings of how an iPad is put together so I'm not even sure this is physically possible.

 

[rowspaxe]

'distilling the extraneous'.

ios7 requires some additional distilation

 

[kap09]

I think this would actually depend a bit on software as well. The bezels do serve a purpose now in terms of a spot to hold, an edge to lead into gestures, etc. The software would have to compensate if the bezels were done away with entirely.

Would be a pretty interesting piece to look at the though

 

[Lucille Carter]

I really hope not.

 

[darngooddesign]

Without a bezel, how would you bring you command center in landscape?

 

[nixiemaiden]

I don't think it would work on a portable device.

 

[RickTaylor]

Perhaps they could make the screen wrap around to the back as well.

 

[herdnerfer]

Perhaps they could make the screen wrap around to the back as well.

This would be awesome.


Also make it Spherical

 

[Julien]

Without a bezel, how would you bring you command center in landscape?

...also what about the Home button. It's all but a sure thing the next iPad will have TouchID and Apple will probably use this tech for a few years.

 

[ShakinBake]

I think this would actually depend a bit on software as well. The bezels do serve a purpose now in terms of a spot to hold, an edge to lead into gestures, etc. The software would have to compensate if the bezels were done away with entirely.

Would be a pretty interesting piece to look at the though

I think iPads already have thumb rejection when you hold it on the sides. What I'm wondering is what happens to a bezel less iPad when you drop it.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

Possible? Probably. Desireable? Not to me. I already have accidental touch-itis w/ the Air.

 

[darngooddesign]

...also what about the Home button. It's all but a sure thing the next iPad will have TouchID and Apple will probably use this tech for a few years.

While they could minimize them further, going bezel-less isn't really parctical.

 

[mtneer]

Going bezel-less would create a lot of stiffness issues with the side. I wouldn't want the forces of a side impact going back into the screen and the backlights. A metal casing taking the shock would seem like better engineering..

 

[ucfgrad93]

Possible? Probably. Desireable? Not to me. I already have accidental touch-itis w/ the Air.

Agreed. I would rather keep the bezel for this as well.