And btw, the problems I am describing arent based on "lack of more advanced technology".
Lets forget the display technology and lets just take the transparent cover. You are unable to connect two transparent materials without the noticable gap. Because of the laws of optics! Because the surface isnt two-dimensional.
Thats basic physics. If you plan to contradict that, well you are bigger clown than I thought you are:)
keep living in the technological past
bottom line is foldable iPhones are coming. Who knows what tech they will use, but its the next step after zero bezel.
I dont know what tech they will use, but what I know for sure is that they wont use your ancient Nintendo style. Because of the problems I described to you, which you tend to ignore and you just keep blabing the magical mantra of nonexisting technologies and ignoring basic laws of physics.
It would be really funny if I didnt know you are dead serious.
you are the one bringing up Nintendo style.
the 'latch' could be part of the screen. who knows. But your little brain can't comprehend anything beyond what you know.
What latch ffs??
Again, where is your imagination?
Since you clearly dont have any, take two pieces of glass and put them together. They have some thickness, even if only micromilimeters thick, the light fractures and you see the connecting line!
And as I said, this is the problem even if you would have a totaly ideal scenario with a superfuturistic screen with pixels exactly on the edge of the display.
And that you are able to manufacture a mechanim that puts two parts of device so close together, that the gap between them is as close as the gap between pixels in Retina display. Good luck:))
This is basic psysics, which you clearly dont understand.
Like I've been saying here for years: innovation with Smartphones is not even close to being over
The next 2 years will be about smaller bezels
Then in 2019-2025 it will be about thinner and foldable phones.
Imagine an iPhone with the screen size of the 7+ but folds into the size of the iPhone 4s? And in the folded position you still can use one side of the screen for 1-handed use? That is the holy grail of smartphones.
The problem is not only the hinge and the display will be stressed in the folding part, you will damage pixels in time, the fluidness of the display when unfolded will be compromised, you will see the difference, the display wont be uniform.
But another problem is the covering glass. How will the capacitive reception work on something like plastic? Can be "glass" folded and unfolded? Yes, it can, but it is extremely expensive and you can only bend it, not "fold", not in that small form factor.
Will the bend have weaker "glass/plastic" where you will see scratches after time, more so when this "fold" is wrapping one side of the phone with the display? Will the plastic be waterproof? That is a problem right now, but can be maybe solved. It probably wont be as hard as glass, therefore you can scratch it every time you put it in your pocket.
What happens when you drop it on this "fold"? Plastic is more flexible than glass, so it can better handle impacts, but how will it affect the pixels, or the capacitive layer?
Clearly, Samsung (and others) has a BENDABLE! (not FOLDABLE!) display, but doesn't know what to do with it. To build around it a fully working phone without these compromises is another story and much more difficult. When it happens, it will be just a PR prototype, I don't see any commercially viable product in the near future of lets say 2-3 years. And thats very optimistic.
It's something they've been working on for several years (I remember previews of those screens back in 2012) so I would assume they have been developing answers to all the questions you've posed.
Here's the thing about Apple's so called rivals innovating on their own instead of copying Apple, they may get it wrong and they only have 5% of the smart phone profits between them all!
Meanwhile, we have the Watch. This is the first time an Watch entered our family eco system, I bought my wife a Mk 2 for Christmas. She is a busy Realtor and has found she rarely uses her iPhone now, it stays in her hand bag for the most part unless she needs a camera, she is using her 'Dick Tracey' wrist phone and wrist mounted Siri assistant all the time now (or her hands free in the car). I have to confess being a Mac guy rather than an iOS one (Netflix on my iPad and an iPhone for the odd phone call is about it for iOS for me) I had no idea they could even act as a wrist phone! So if I offered her a folding smart phone she'd laugh at me.
As an aside, My wife has found that others are amazed she can use her Watch the way she does and they confess they had no idea it could be a wrist phone either. I bet she's has been responsible for a dozen Watch sales in the last few weeks.
The Apple Watch has all of the elements of being the next big thing and the device that cannibalizes the iPhone.
The real issue for me is that the watch requires tethering to the phone. I want a real stand alone watch like the Samsung Gear S3 frontier which directly accesses 4G LTE.
Tethering the watch to an iPad when in wireless range for data and the watch being able to make calls independently is the ideal use situation for me. Perhaps a foldable screen to go along with the watch would be nice.
I am waiting for the development of the watch that will allow me to rid the phone from my pocket all together. The loss of a high quality camera would be overcome by having the computer with independent call and data capabilities strapped to my wrist.
Why Tim Cook hasn't focused on integrating a modem into the S series SIP is a head scratcher.
The ability to ditch carrying around credit and debit cards with the ability to Apple Pay, ditching the phone, an ability to use the watch identification, and the ability to use it as a "key" for my home and automobile would be ideal.
Just strap the watch on my wrist and I would need nothing more to keep track of.
Cook needs to expand his vision and stop the nearly singular focus on the phone. I realize that the iPhone is the primary source of Apple's profits. Once upon a time, the iPod was. Yet Jobs was willing to move forward with the iPhone. It's time to move forward with the watch.
The watch is ideal also for voice control but unlike the Echo, would always be on me. Cook really needs to upgrade Siri's capabilities to compete with Alexa or simply being Alexa to the watch. That kind of voice control with that kind of mobility would be hugely compelling. Especially with Apple's penchant for privacy.
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Again, where is your imagination?
Since you clearly dont have any, take two pieces of glass and put them together. They have some thickness, even if only micromilimeters thick, the light fractures and you see the connecting line!
And as I said, this is the problem even if you would have a totaly ideal scenario with a superfuturistic screen with pixels exactly on the edge of the display.
And that you are able to manufacture a
mechanim that puts two parts of device so close together, that the gap between them is as close as the gap between pixels in Retina display. Good luck:))
This is basic psysics, which you clearly dont understand.
A quick google search had some concepts for visualization - sounds like the lower one except reversed (screen on outside)
The real issue for me is that the watch requires tethering to the phone. I want a real stand alone watch like the Samsung Gear S3 frontier which directly accesses 4G LTE.
Tethering the watch to an iPad when in wireless range for data and the watch being able to make calls independently is the ideal use situation for me. Perhaps a foldable screen to go along with the watch would be nice.
I am waiting for the development of the watch that will allow me to rid the phone from my pocket all together. The loss of a high quality camera would be overcome by having the computer with independent call and data capabilities strapped to my wrist.
Why Tim Cook hasn't focused on integrating a modem into the S series SIP is a head scratcher.
The ability to ditch carrying around credit and debit cards with the ability to Apple Pay, ditching the phone, an ability to use the watch identification, and the ability to use it as a "key" for my home and automobile would be ideal.
Just strap the watch on my wrist and I would need nothing more to keep track of.
Cook needs to expand his vision and stop the nearly singular focus on the phone. I realize that the iPhone is the primary source of Apple's profits. Once upon a time, the iPod was. Yet Jobs was willing to move forward with the iPhone. It's time to move forward with the watch.
The watch is ideal also for voice control but unlike the Echo, would always be on me. Cook really needs to upgrade Siri's capabilities to compete with Alexa or simply being Alexa to the watch. That kind of voice control with that kind of mobility would be hugely compelling. Especially with Apple's penchant for privacy.