Renders reveal purported 2018 iPad Pro with near edge-to-edge display, iPhone-like antenna...
Computer renders based on leaked CAD images could offer a first look at Apple's next-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro, complete with slim-bezel display, iPhone-esque antenna "lines" and an angular chassis reminiscent of the iPhone 4 series.
Shared by OnLeaks' Steve Hemmerstoffer in a post to Twitter on Monday, the high-resolution renders, created in conjunction with tech blog MySmartPrice, claim to reveal a vastly redesigned iPad Pro model widely expected to debut this fall.
The images are polished versions of CAD schematics first aired by OnLeaks last week and show an iPad device that departs from Apple's current aesthetic. Gone are the soft edges of iPad's rounded chassis, replaced with an angular case design featuring chamfered edges and breaks along the circumference to accommodate radio-transparent material. A similar architecture defined the iPhone 4 in 2010.
As seen in a set of CAD images supposedly showing off an 11-inch iPad Pro last month, today's renders feature two rows of speaker vents flanking a centrally-located Lightning port at the bottom of the device, a design mirrored on the tablet's top edge. Two microphone ports are also in view up top, sitting above a TrueDepth camera system embedded in iPad's bezel.
Button positioning appears to remain unchanged from existing iPad models, though the familiar home button has been removed to make way for more screen real estate. Also deprecated is iPad's headphone jack, a modification that would bring the device family in line with iPhone.
More dubious is a repositioned Smart Connector that supposedly lives on the back of the tablet directly above its Lightning Connector. MySmartPrice believes the positioning is a concession for Face ID, incorrectly stating that Apple's facial recognition feature is unlikely to work while iPad is in landscape mode. Code discovered in past iOS 12 beta versions have revealed Face ID will indeed accommodate landscape operation in future devices, with iPad thought to be a prime candidate for inclusion.
Whether the renders, and indeed the CAD from which they are based, are legitimate is unknown. Hemmerstoffer himself hedges on the renders' veracity, saying in a tweet, "I can't confirm this one is 100% accurate."
Rumored for release this fall, Apple's next-generation iPad Pro models are speculated to boast a smaller footprint while retaining screen dimensions thanks to the deletion of Touch ID. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the shift to a button-free design will allow Apple to squeeze an 11-inch display into the existing form factor, initially designed to house a 10.5-inch screen. Apple is also anticipated to carry over the jumbo-size 12.9-inch model that ushered in "iPad Pro" branding in 2015.
Apple is scheduled to hold a special media event at its Apple Park headquarters on Sept. 12, where the company is widely expected to launch this year's iPhone lineup. Whether the smartphones will share stage time with a revamped iPad Pro is unclear.
Shared by OnLeaks' Steve Hemmerstoffer in a post to Twitter on Monday, the high-resolution renders, created in conjunction with tech blog MySmartPrice, claim to reveal a vastly redesigned iPad Pro model widely expected to debut this fall.
The images are polished versions of CAD schematics first aired by OnLeaks last week and show an iPad device that departs from Apple's current aesthetic. Gone are the soft edges of iPad's rounded chassis, replaced with an angular case design featuring chamfered edges and breaks along the circumference to accommodate radio-transparent material. A similar architecture defined the iPhone 4 in 2010.
As seen in a set of CAD images supposedly showing off an 11-inch iPad Pro last month, today's renders feature two rows of speaker vents flanking a centrally-located Lightning port at the bottom of the device, a design mirrored on the tablet's top edge. Two microphone ports are also in view up top, sitting above a TrueDepth camera system embedded in iPad's bezel.
Button positioning appears to remain unchanged from existing iPad models, though the familiar home button has been removed to make way for more screen real estate. Also deprecated is iPad's headphone jack, a modification that would bring the device family in line with iPhone.
More dubious is a repositioned Smart Connector that supposedly lives on the back of the tablet directly above its Lightning Connector. MySmartPrice believes the positioning is a concession for Face ID, incorrectly stating that Apple's facial recognition feature is unlikely to work while iPad is in landscape mode. Code discovered in past iOS 12 beta versions have revealed Face ID will indeed accommodate landscape operation in future devices, with iPad thought to be a prime candidate for inclusion.
Whether the renders, and indeed the CAD from which they are based, are legitimate is unknown. Hemmerstoffer himself hedges on the renders' veracity, saying in a tweet, "I can't confirm this one is 100% accurate."
Rumored for release this fall, Apple's next-generation iPad Pro models are speculated to boast a smaller footprint while retaining screen dimensions thanks to the deletion of Touch ID. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the shift to a button-free design will allow Apple to squeeze an 11-inch display into the existing form factor, initially designed to house a 10.5-inch screen. Apple is also anticipated to carry over the jumbo-size 12.9-inch model that ushered in "iPad Pro" branding in 2015.
Apple is scheduled to hold a special media event at its Apple Park headquarters on Sept. 12, where the company is widely expected to launch this year's iPhone lineup. Whether the smartphones will share stage time with a revamped iPad Pro is unclear.
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re: edge to edge, i have no idea why that description is used when the bezel is 9mm—actually growing a couple mm on the long edges for the smaller iPad Pro. It doesn’t even really make sense to call the iPhone edge to edge but it’s used often.
Again if the overall dims are correct, the 11.0” gets a new aspect ratio of 10:7, with about 15mm added to the (portrait) height while the width stays the same. The 12.9” keeps the original 4:3 aspect ratio and again the bezel is about 9mm all the way around.
re: the rear camera, there are no rumors of dual lenses so there’s no reason to expect that.
Renders really don't cut it. Most of these renders are just hopeful speculation by people who are hoping to get some attention by putting out their ideas.
I can't remember the last render (as opposed to actual photo) that was even close to the final product. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. (And possibly if I'm right, for that matter.)
As for this one, what no notch? All the stuff we've seen has suggested a notch, including internal graphics in iOS 12. Seems unlikely they would get all the other details right, but miss that.
In regards to "repetitive and boring" here's a run on sentence of their iPhone history: they started with a single silver+black model, then had a black and white plastic models, and then back to black with a glass model, and eventually they had black and white glass, and then we moved onto aluminum again with space grey+black, silver+white, and the cheap 5c models with various colors (blue, green, pink, yellow, and white, but all with a black glass front) that apparently weren't successful enough to keep around, and then gold+white was added, and then with the iPhone 6 series the colors were dropped again with only silver aluminium for a year until the 6s series when game out with 4 anodized colors (silver, space grey, gold, and rose gold, then they added a glossy black finish, and with the 8 series they removed 2(?) colors.
What would you do different to increase Apple's sales that they haven't tried and scraped? What exactly are you expecting with this "fun" design?
I could see their being a "portrait" Smart Connector on the device IF there was one where it presently is as well, but the presence of that connector in the renders tells me that this design is based not on actual leaked Apple specs, but rather on the speculative case design we saw in an earlier story -- which had a cutout for something above the lightning port, but it coudn't be a smart connector because they are flush -- you can't have a case on an iPad that uses the Smart Connector, so that case design is likely false.
My mistake, I thought it had. Probably just my faulty memory.
Still not convinced by this render, though.
Now, if we're talking about the removal of the Home Button, reducing the bezel size, and, probably the biggest factor, adding all the Face ID HW into the bezel maybe they need to have the edge of the device thicker to house those components so for symmetry they're making it all the same thickness. So why didn't the iPhone X have to get that same treatment? In this hypothetical, the notch may allow them to get the components deeper into the device so that the rounded chassis can still exist.
BMW has always looked cheap and ugly. IMHO, of course.
I'm not sure where design of these devices can go from here, anyway. Everything is some form of rectangle, the only differences is how big, and where the buttons are. While we're stuck with needing a big, flat piece of glass, everything will have to be built around it. When we get holographic projection screens that can put an interactive display up anywhere, we'll build everything around that.