According to all the rumors, the iPhone 7 has maintained great part of the design of the iPhone 6 / 6s waiting that the great change comes 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. Remember that, in theory, Apple has followed keeping those margins so that the part front of the iPhone is symmetrical.
The sensor of traces of the next iPhone would allow that the part front out 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 something I have learned of them devices Android is that, sensor of traces apart, the buttons physical not are necessary in them devices mobile of today. The patent that it has awarded Apple today about a little more 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?
