Rumors about the next-generation MacBook Pro refresh point to them coming with a Touch ID sensor. However, it has remained unclear until now on how exactly Apple plans on integrating the sensor. I think next year’s phone, the 2017 model, the one that will come out in September of 2017. What I have heard — … Read more
“For years, Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive has expressed a desire for the iPhone to appear like a single sheet of glass, according to people familiar with the matter,” WSJ reporters wrote. “The current design ideas for the 2017 iPhones are expected to push the handsets in that direction by eliminating much of the … Read more
The iPhone 7s, iPhone 8 — or whatever it is eventually called — will feature an ALL-GLASS design and a curved OLED display. This is kind of a given at present. But one additional feature that might make an appearance is something that has been talked about for quite sometime now — Apple getting rid … Read more
And thinking about it, I have to wonder: Is Apple making such an enormous and potentially unpopular change this year so that next year’s iPhone — you know, the one that might have an all-glass display and an ultra-sharp AMOLED screen — won’t suffer? That’s the phone that might ditch the home button altogether. It’s … Read more
“Digitimes is reporting that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has begun to ‘tape out’ the A11 chip expected to power the 2017-model iPhone. Taping out is the point at which the initial design is finalized and ready to create the photomask that will be used for manufacture. There is, though, still some way to … Read more
We’ve heard a bit before from Kuo and others about Apple wanting to make the switch to OLED displays (AMOLED, specifically) instead of LCD, and before that has been predicted as coming as far ahead as 2018 (bear in mind this prediction was made a while ago, inside 2015) on something like the Apple iPhone … Read more
An OLED display doesn’t need any of the electronics and circuitry used to drive the LED back light and LCD shutter from a LED display, which makes OLEDs more efficient. LED screens produce black simply by fully closing the pixel shutter—the back light is still shining (it never actually turns off) but the light … Read more
According to reports dating November 24 2015, the 2018 iPhone will pack a Samsung-made OLED display. Such things are easy to dismiss as over-speculative hokum, but this time we’re taking it seriously because it comes straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. An executive from Samsung Display (Samsung’s descriptively titled display production and … Read more
Bloomberg probably has the most accurate reporting thus far (thanks to its hiring of Apple reporter Mark Gurman) in a report that basically confirms what has leaked out about the iPhone over the next few months. The big news is that the form factor will remain largely the same, there will be a dual-lens camera … Read more
Apple may even completely nix the home button on 2017’s iPhone (let’s just call it the iPhone 8 for now), according to a Wall Street Journal report published Tuesday. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the phone will only receive minor updates, including getting rid of the headphone jack. We’ll have to wait until … Read more