“According to a new patent filed by Apple, patent application 20130076612, a potential smartphone design could include a full wraparound display and have no buttons,” Charlie Osborne reports for ZDNet. “Enclosed within “transparent housing,” a flexible display panel would be configured to display content at any portion of the gadget’s frame.”
“Potentially, the smartphone could contain up to two AMOLED screens,” Osborne reports. “The use of AMOLED and a conical shape for the flexible panel could offer users ‘an illusion of depth perception […] mimicking a 3D experience.'”
Osborne reports, “The new design relies heavily on flexible display technology, but in order to limit the possibility of damage, the patent describes the phone as being incased in glass — bent into a conical shape, but serving as protection in case you drop your gadget. With such advances being made in the smartphone industry — and the market already crowded with operating systems, similar phone designs and application ecosystems — perhaps Apple’s move into flexible displays could help the firm keep its dominant position.”
Read more in the full article here.
Related article:
Apple patent application reveals iPhone with curved, wraparound display – March 28, 2013
I am still waiting for my flying car.
Same here. It won’t be the future until I have a true flying car.
A different version of the future arrived long ago in Redmond in the form of flying chairs.
Just what we need – idiots texting and flying.
We do have idiots flying drunk.
True
Your wait is over…
http://pal-v.com/the-pal-v-one/
Your wait is over. The future is now…
http://pal-v.com/the-pal-v-one/
I used to want that until I started to think of the inexperienced, or drunk or careless drivers that would be fly-driving in the airspace above my house.
Maybe just a hover car where tire expense isn’t needed and pot-holes are a worry of the past would make me sleep better at night.
iCone
Conical? It’s an elliptical cylinder. I’m sure they’s smooth out the ends too. Looks like it will end up being about the shape of a used bar of soap, or an old style pocket warmer.
I know… How can a “journalist” not know the difference between a cone and a cylinder?
A cylinder is like a soup can. A cone is like the dunce cap the journalist wore as a child in school.
Logan’s Run!
Looks nice. If they can combine this with a premium feel as well as sensors on the case, I can see this being the next paradigm.
April Fool’s?….
So, how would you build an iPhone case for that?
Enquiring third party minds want to know.
am I expected to, “flip rather than swipe”, now to see my apps?
why would it be a good idea to let others see what my list of applications is?
hmmm, 80% of the time my hand is covering the back screen – why is this useful?
@Other Steve – It would be condom-shaped. For your device, I’m guessing that it would be about 4″ long.
Oh, and BTW, Steve, since iPhone came onto the market – translucent cases were in fashion. Perhaps that answers the minds of 3rd party case manufacturers.
Nice but I still want deeper folders.
And all the Android fans are saying “Apple copied Nokia” because 2 years ago Nokia put together an *animation* that showed a phone with a wrap-around screen. Using that ‘logic,’ everyone copied Star Trek’s communicators!
Still it’s a nice fantasy that Apple would do something Samsung would be caught flatfooted against again with their slacked jaws gaping in horror. We can hope.
“…keep its dominant position…” I am so confused: I had heard Apple lost its lead to some Asian electronics firm.
New iPhone X!
Auditory iPhope chip implant just behind the ear with a vertical antennae. When you get a phone call, your head vibrates, then you rotate antennae to be horizontal microphone in front of your mouth. Also doubles as hearing aid.
patent application 20130076612,
WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP. Wrap around flexible screens are a SAMSUNG design and have been around for ages. Typical Apple once again taking credit for someone elses work.
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-34435_1-57563058/eyes-on-samsungs-youm-flexible-display-tech-at-ces-2013/
So, how so you know for sure that Samsung cane up with that design first? For all we know they stole it from another company and presented it at CES as their own design ( which has been Samsung’s MO for decades ).
Hey, cm8, just how sure are you of your statement? Just because Samsung comes up with an idea at the latest CES, you think it’s an original idea of theirs. If you’d actually bothered to read the article, you might have seen this:
“Apple credits Scott Myers as the sole inventor of this patent application which was originally filed under serial number 245646 in Q3 2011.”
See, smartass
We don’t need no stinking 3D!
“Badgers? Badgers? We don’t need no stinkin’ badgers! — Raul of Raul’s Wild Kingdom.
Just give me user sides on my iPad and I’d be thrilled with the next generation of that device.
is this an April Fool’s joke?