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Lew Later

Apple Finally Shrinking The Notch

Lew Later

Quickscope Media

Tech News, News, Technology

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A new report suggests the elimination of the current iPhone notch in exchange for a more minimal cut out. The new punch out will feature a miniaturized version of the current FaceID tech. The report indicates a target launch date of 2020 for this new iPhone design.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Apple, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone 10, iPhone 10 S, the Notch, which, I mean it's just so commonplace it's we're so aware of it now

0:17.1

sort of started the notch trend or at least was was there at the forefront popularized it.

0:24.0

They might be getting rid of it at least according to this report here from

0:28.9

Gordon Kelly on Forbes. Apple's shock iPhone redesigned takes shape, apparently.

0:36.0

See, this is a thing. I've been talking about why it's hard for Apple to follow the

0:41.6

screen-to-body ratio trend, the whole punch trend,

0:45.2

the getting rid of the notch trend because of the way that their face ID tech works

0:49.4

using a variety of sensors dot dot projection, IR, and whatever other tech is housed within there.

0:57.0

And because they got rid of any other form of authentication, it was like, I don't see how they're going to get rid of this notch,

1:06.4

considering that face ID is the only way into the modern iPhones since the iPhone 10.

1:12.0

Well, according to this report here Apple internally has

1:15.6

figured out how to shrink those current necessary components for their form of

1:21.6

face ID which again it's not just a simple camera it's not just an

1:26.4

What do they call it? optical image based unlock it's got more to it three dimensional sensors and so on.

1:33.7

Apparently they've taken what fit in that current generation notch which by today's standards

1:39.6

looks massive comparatively speaking you, compared to everything else that's on the market.

1:45.7

Apparently they could they took that down into something now that based on these

1:50.0

renders being showcased is in the same kind of scale as what you've seen on

1:56.9

recent Samsung devices maybe even smaller if these renders are to be believed or

2:01.3

if they're pointing into that direction.

2:03.8

We have this upcoming note series device which has placed this small little hole punch supposedly

2:09.4

into the center of the display, top center of the display and it's completely circular.

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