According to all rumors, the iPhone 7 has kept much of the design of the iPhone 6 / 6s waiting for the big change to arrive in 2017. The iPhone 8, iPhone 2017th anniversary or iPhone of XNUMX will be the first of those from Cupertino to include a screen OLED that will offer greater autonomy and will not limit its shape but, if the rumors are true, we will also see how the fingerprint sensor disappears, as claimed by the latest patent that Apple has obtained today.
Presented as «Capacitive fingerprint sensor including an electrostatic lens«Apple's new patent would allow what many users have been asking for for years: that the home button disappears, which would allow next year's iPhone remove the top and bottom margins. We recall that, in theory, Apple has continued to maintain those margins so that the front of the iPhone is symmetrical.
The fingerprint sensor of the next iPhone would allow the front to be all screen
As with most fingerprint sensors, the separation between the contact surface where we put the finger and the results of the capacitive detection matrix form a diffuse result of the electric field of the finger. This could lead to degraded image resolution and decreased recognition accuracy. To avoid this, Apple proposes to use a electrostatic lenses they have described as one or more conductive layer patterns. Depending on its position, relative voltage, and shape, the layer or layers are capable of shaping or bending the electric field associated with a user's finger.
If I have learned something from Android devices, it is that, apart from fingerprint sensors, physical buttons are not required on today's mobile devices. The patent that Apple has been awarded today brings that possibility a little closer to the iPhone. Currently, the home button is used to return to the springboard, to summon Siri, and to lower the screen (Reachability). None of the three functions require a physical button, and if Apple uses this patent, it seems clear that the home button has its days numbered. Perhaps the new version included in the iPhone 7 has been the first nail in the button's grave home. The question is: will the iPhone 8 have the Touch ID on the screen and less margins?
It is what they would have to get if they want to improve and encourage the next purchases, they cannot continue with the goose that lays the golden eggs by giving the same iPhone with the same frames over and over again, I would change my 6 plus for the one in the photo .
ohhhh surprise, surprise the same thing that the xiaomi ones have just released in their latest model mi5s. Who copies who now? jaaaaaaaaaaa
Hello Jose. The Mi5s does not have the sensor on the screen, but it does not protrude from the screen glass like that of the iPhone 7, a terminal that came out earlier.
A greeting.