According to all the rumors, iPhone 7 has kept much of the design of the iPhone 6/6s waiting for that great change come in 2017. IPhone 8, iPhone tenth anniversary or 2017 iPhone will be the first of the Cupertino to include a screen OLED that it will offer greater autonomy and will not limit its form, but if the rumors are true, we will also see how fingerprint sensor disappears, as it ensures the latest patent that Apple has managed today.
Presented as “capacitive Fingerprint Sensor including an electrostatic lens“, the new Apple patent would allow many users have been asking for years: that the Start button disappear, which would permit the iPhone in the coming year it deleted the upper and lower margins. We recall that, in theory, Apple has continued those margins so that the front of the iPhone is symmetrical.
Traces of the next iPhone sensor would allow that the front was all screen
As in most sensors of traces, the separation between the surface of contact where we put the finger and the results of the capacitative detection matrix form a diffuse result of the electric field of the finger. This could lead to a degraded image resolution and a decrease in the accuracy of recognition. To avoid this, Apple proposes using electrostatic lenses which have been described as one or more patterns of conductive layers. Depending on its position, the relative voltage and shape, the layer or layers are able to shape or bend the electric field associated with a user finger.
If I have learnt anything from Android devices is that fingerprint sensor aside, the physical buttons are not necessary in today’s mobile devices. Patent that Apple was today awarded slightly more approaches that possibility to the iPhone. Currently, the Start button is used to return to the springboard, to invoke to Siri and lower screen (Reachability). Any of the three functions requires a button physical and, if Apple uses this patent, seems clear that the button of home has the days counted. Perhaps the new version included in the iPhone 7 has been the first nail in the tomb of the button home. The question is: will be 8 iPhone Touch ID on-screen, and fewer margins?
