Then we'll see how much Apple actually believed in the Dynamic Island or if it was just a gimmick to try and hide sideways "i" on the display.
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Next Year's iPhone 16 Pro Still on Track to Feature Under-Display Face ID, Followed By Under-Display Selfie Camera in 2026
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They'll find something new to introduce that isn't even on phones at this point. Everything else will be the same. Better cameras, faster, more storage, etc.
Looks like the climate is changing and those proverbial waters are rising to wash that dynamic island away...thank goodness!
It's a good thing Apple clamped down on rumors. The iphone 16 looks like the phone to get...not the iphone 15.
The part that would be hidden would be the array of IR lights that beam at your face, and then return back to the phone to confirm your faces matches the ID it has stored locally. I think in tandem, the IR mapping of your face + the camera act as an authenticator to unlock your phone.
Curious to see 's PR team go to work on explaining the "value" of the notch on a MBP in the coming years if it's still there, but disappeared from the phone.
The public was sick of that. Everyone wanted bigger batteries and phones that didn’t bend 🤷♂️🤷♂
no surprise this info is there due to the display makers knowing what people will add years in advance. 2026 to have just a slab will be very interesting indeed
It might actually still exist but in software only and might actually become an on demand feature.
I don't see how it's possible to have an under the display camera and be crystal clear as if it were a stand alone camera.
Latin America is absolutely dominated by WhatsApp. Even when a lot of people use iPhones, WhatsApp still rules. Almost no-one uses iMessage.
You do know that the iPhone is extremely popular in Japan, right? And there is a lot more to peoples preference for the iPhone than blue bubbles.
You do realize once all smartphones have under-screen cameras, edge-to-edge displays, and slim bezels, that they will become visually indistinguishable from one another?
Once Apple's phones get this technology, will their laptops be rid of the notch, too?
Uh oh, this will make me hold onto iPhone 13 Max for 1 more year. It has the toughest and most resistive battery life I have ever seen on a handheld electronic device.
So I have to ask, do you get the message through osmosis or ESP after you use Touch ID? Or does your device read it to you?
IF these rumours are true then I’m even more satisfied with getting the 14 pro and dynamic island as soon as I did. 15 pro is gonna be a harder sell especially for people who hold onto their phone for a long time if we know a full screen display is coming with the 16 pro.
Hover your finger over the area and the island pops up. It’s called virtual global warming.
The quality of the images shown on the display and the quality of images captured by the camera will be lower if this rumor is true.
With current battery tech, the only way to make smartphones thinner is by making SoC increasingly efficient.
But seeing how the average consumer expects phablet size displays and iPhone 13-esque battery life from a flagship smartphone, I highly doubt you can sell thinness and lightness as plus unless the smartphone also has better battery life than their current much thicker and heavier devices.
SoC efficiency would have to be many times better than what we have now to allow for the kind of all-day usage many expect while also lower mAhs to make the device lighter and thinner.
I don't see this happening anytime soon.
I fully expect this "everything under the display" trend to give us a close to "hard reset" for front-facing cameras in terms of photo-quality.
Future iPhones beyond the first one with fully under-display selfie camera will then offer the "solution" to the much worse than what we've come to expect quality of the initial models.
But I guess that's just how consumer electronics moves forward so late in the smartphone game, one expensive iteration at a time.