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New Renderings Show an 'iPhone 8' Design With Full-Front Display and Minimal Bezels All Around
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You know, I was holding one too and, even though it looks nice i think (and hope) Apple is thinking the way I was which is;
WE NEED A MINIMAL BEZEL TO AVOID COVERING THE SCREEN WITH OUR FINGERS!!!
I mean, we need to HOLD the phone right? there is no comfortable way to hold it without covering a tiny bith of the sides, and covering the SCREEN (samsung case) with my own fingers is ANNOYING.
I THINK APPLE (the generally user experience expert) is catching this while ago.
PLUS, the curved display ALWAYS provoques a reflect in that curve that is also not convenient to the purpose of seeing a continuous perfect screen!
That doesn't sound very Apple like but neither does protruding camera, so who knows.
Said everyone regarding the iPhone 7 and look how that turned out.
A render has no basis in reality until the product is released.
I always find such viewpoint quite remarkable in the lack of vision, and old mindset of technology.
Tell me, You know about sheet of paper yes? And a piece of Canvas yes?
You know you COULD write up to the very very edge of a sheet of people, but people don't.
You COULD paint every time to the edge and around the corners/sides of a canvas, but you don't have to.
Just stop and think about this for one moment please.
Stop, Think, and consider.....
Just because a surface can display something, be it paper, canvas, or even a screen at every single point on it, there is no need for it to be used that way.
Imagine for one moment a technology where the whole phone was a single slab, and every point over the entire point on that slab COULD be used to display something.
Just like a piece or wood or a slab of stone could have markings anywhere on it's surface.
So you make such a phone, it's all screen everywhere.
THEN under software control you can decide where you wish to display items on it's surface.
Please, try and think beyond past technology where there hard to be a physical boarder and there had to be a screen that was totally used at all times.
You don't need a bezel, Screen can be bezel if the software chooses it to be.
it isn' t about things being apple like, it is about technical possibilities and mass production. A behind screen front camera that also has a new advanced 3d sensor? No, can' t see that to happen in the next 6 months, just like the in-screen touchid, etc.
This concept/leak??? Seems to good to be true, won' t see this all this stuff in 2017 i am afraid, end of 2018 is more likely. Perhaps the 8s or something.
I expect an iphone 8 this year that will look like a refined and "rounder" apple watch style lg g6, and i hope they can come through with the in-screen touchid.
Hidden, camera' s , speakers, etc will be for the next update in 2018 and in 2019 we'll see an iphone with a screen that is all curved around the side edges and will have in-screen 3dtouch/forcetouch buttons instead of mechnical ones and true wireless charging. Seems more realistic.
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Why is it any different than the current layout, beside orientation? You're supposed to take pictures/video in landscape format, not portrait (thanks selfies). Wouldn't it make more sense to have the sensors side by side for that orientation?
Actually iPhone 7 was not expected re-design and it was well known long before! If you been following the rumours, everyone was talking about iPhone 8 long before the 7 came out. iPhone 7 turned exactly as it was rumoured and expected. There was just not much buzz around iPhone 7 before it was released.
That just makes no sense. They're not rotating the sensors themselves they are just reshuffling the placement. Also you would still be able to shoot portrait video, there is no way to ban it, maybe through software ... Just think about it, the sensors are like rectangles, they are basically placed liked the screen itself, vertically. So when you hold it upright the image fills the screen. If they rotate the sensors then the image in the camera app would only fill the center of the screen (for example like when you are watcinhg a video by holding the phone in portrait mode). Thats not really practical or logical.
I personally didn't have much of an issue with my fingers hands covering the screen. Especially since when I'm holding my phones, I tend to let the phone rest on my palm and my fingers are simply there to make sure it doesn't slide away. My palm does most of the work. YMMV, though.
When the horizontal dual camera first appeared, people were mocking it because it looked like Bender from Futurama.
Relax. You'll never even think about it once its been out a week.
I kind of wish they would take a chance and go with a different form factor altogether like the Samsung S8. If you haven't seen and held one in the flesh, I highly recommend it. It is by far the most beautiful phone out right now. Samsung has outdesigned Apple in every way with that phone. Did I mention it still has a headphone jack?
Ok, so I'm not 100% tracking with you, but my goodness I just laughed out loud for real!
This about sums it up quite nicely:
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Why would they? They can't innovate anymore. But they sure refuse to imitate. The next iphone will just be another iphone. Bland, dull, and overpriced.
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Why would they? They can't innovate anymore. But they sure refuse to imitate. The next iphone will just be another iphone. Bland, dull, and overpriced.
IF THAT is going to be the way to eliminate de bezels; THEN GO AHEAD. You don't need all that explanation yo make that point cause turning off the screen in "the bezel" area, WOULD MEAN THE SAME.
So, my point then is; "WE NEED A LITTLE BIT OF NON-ONSCREEN AREA TO REST OUR FINGERS; EITHER PHYISICAL or TURNED OFF PIXELS"
The bottom Chinese characters where it has the word "Home" translates to "Front face without Home key"
And the rendering next to it says "Please press the fingerprint recognition area to unlock"
Oh yay, another mockup with the hole-punched screen. Why people this this is a good idea is beyond me.