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Leaked iPhone 8 Screen Protector Includes Reduced Bezels and Front-Facing Camera Cutout

Why would a screen protector include the painted black edges? Unless this was claimed to be an actual front panel, I'd find it highly suspect.

I'm increasingly thinking Apple will in some way refer to this as the iPhone 8 - they wouldn't want to give up referring to it by that 'lucky' number in the Chinese number. Shame they can't price it at 8888 rmb :p
 
Blakjack said:
Yea I don't get how that black strip would work with all of the icons at the top. Between the carrier signal icons, battery meter, Bluetooth, location on/off, etc, the strip just won't work seems like.
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Might explain why iOS 11 is going back to compact signal bars instead of the circles/dots?
 
Arran said:
Might explain why iOS 11 is going back to compact signal bars instead of the circles/dots?
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Might not be sufficient. What about carrier names longer than "AT&T", where'd the clock go? But perhaps they (again) muster much courage and just remove those things that could get in the way ... ;)
 
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Sunny1990 said:
Much nicer looking than the Samsung, but apple should make upper portion like this.

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Black camera and speaker grill cutout on top of the screen protector looks awful.it should be transparent like all other screen protectors.
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Well yeah, this is obviously what they're going to do. It's why they've changed back to pre-antennagate bars.

I think they might be dropping carrier names and putting the time in the top right (which will change to battery icon when < 10%).

They could also put the time or battery life in control center.
 
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MrGimper said:
If they use the deep black of OLED to produce a strip across the top, then there’s not gonna be any white iPhone 8 then.... so I call BS.
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they can make the bezel white and the top screen bar white.
just like older iphones have a different splash screen depending on which color it is
 
I always thought displays have to be rectangular. How is such a display with round cutouts manufactured?
 
I guess all those questioning the need for the masked sections on a screen protector have never used a full-coverage, edge-to-edge protector on an iPhone 6 and later?

In short, they're to conceal the ugliness that results when a thin piece of flat glass is adhered to a screen with tapered edges around the circumference.

Due to the taper, the adhesive layer does not fully cover the entire surface area of the glass; it has to end where the radius begins, or the very edge would have nothing to adhere to.

Left unconcealed, it would result in a visible "ring" around the screen. For a consistent appearance, the protector's masking mimics all of the masked sections of the screen, including the upper and lower bezels, making it appear like a stock, unprotected screen.

If accurate, this protector suggests Apple will continue with a tapered screen, and not return to the completely flat screen surfaces of the 5S and earlier.
 
GreyOS said:
Why would a screen protector have the black section at the top, and not just cutouts in the transparent plastic/glass like all other screen protectors.
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If that area on the phone itself is already black material, what difference does it make at all?
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Sunny1990 said:
Black camera and speaker grill cutout on top of the screen protector looks awful.it should be transparent like all other screen protectors.
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But what difference does it make? Literally no difference. No clue why this is being upvoted...
 
this looks a 100x better than thin bezels+ it moves the status bar out of the screen.
 
how the f are you supposed to watch a video on that ****, also please dont tell me the picture will be next to the bezel cuz that would look asymmetric as hell.
 
They could quite easily limit the status bar to less items than currently and I assume the screen resolution will be better than the current iphone so they can make the icons slightly smaller.

If they make the signal bars slightly thinner, hide the carrier name unless you tap on it there will be room for 4-5 icons on the left. The battery indicator doesn't need a % and an icon showing you how much battery is left. If you remove the battery icon from the right and just have the % then you again have room for 4-5 icons on the right as well. The mockup in the first post has the status bar symbols far too big for the screen size.
 
MrGimper said:
But that would use more power in an OLED screen.
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IF apple uses OLED, the difference for the whole screen is roughly 40% (source: http://www.greenbot.com/article/283...interface-really-save-on-amoled-displays.html)

However, two small bars at the top is what, 5% of the screen area? You'll save 40% of battery on a 5% area, meaning battery life will be worse by 2% on a white iphone, while you use it (and you have other stuff burning your battery anyway).

IF apple uses an always on status option, you can always opt for a white on black "sleep" mode.

Or you can color only the frame white, and only color the part that covers the screen black.

So many solutions to a white problem.

Or it might be like the original iphone 4, where white never really happened. :D
 
MrGimper said:
But that would use more power in an OLED screen.
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IF apple uses OLED, the difference for the whole screen is roughly 40% (source: http://www.greenbot.com/article/283...interface-really-save-on-amoled-displays.html)

However, two small bars at the top is what, 5% of the screen area? You'll save 40% of battery on a 5% area, meaning battery life will be worse by 2% on a white iphone, while you use it (and you have other stuff burning your battery anyway).

IF apple chooses an "always on" status bar, it will look less intrusive that its actaully black with white icons while sleeping (and the rest of the screen is off), so that's okay as well.

I don't think it matters.
 
Ploki said:
IF apple uses OLED, the difference for the whole screen is roughly 40% (source: http://www.greenbot.com/article/283...interface-really-save-on-amoled-displays.html)

However, two small bars at the top is what, 5% of the screen area? You'll save 40% of battery on a 5% area, meaning battery life will be worse by 2% on a white iphone, while you use it (and you have other stuff burning your battery anyway).

IF apple chooses an "always on" status bar, it will look less intrusive that its actaully black with white icons while sleeping (and the rest of the screen is off), so that's okay as well.

I don't think it matters.
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For comparison the AOD of s8 consumes about 0.5 to 0.8% battery per hour. Not insignificant.
 
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This phone looks beautiful. My S8 is going on eBay.. I prefer iOS so much more than Android.

I thought I'd try with the S8 but Android is really beginning to irk me.
 
smorrissey said:
Well being fair, the iphone was first then (like 3 years after) came the first Galaxy, so this is a kind of permanent war between these two.
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It was half baked...and it came years after Apple was rumored to be working on a finger print solution. I can put any non working or buggy products into a phone and claim I got there first. There is a reason people don't credit HP/MSFT with making Tablets a thing.
 
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