iPhone 5 to have curved screen. No, honest! Really!
Macworld, along with a billion other outlets, are today pointing to a Digitimes report that claims the iPhone 5 will have a curved screen.This follows rumours—neatly summed up by Nowhere Else—that the iPhone 5 will have a bigger display, a 3D display, better resolution, the same design, a different design, a physical keyboard, no storage, more storage, free unicorns, expensive unicorns, a better battery, a battery made from love and puppies, NFC, LTE, HDMI, LOL, iOS 5, iTunes cloud music, voice controls, no controls, a glass back, a metal back, a flat back, a higher price tag, a lower price tag, and an ability to usher in myriad stupid rumours about the iPhone 6.
So, the curved glass thing. Maybe. It’s all a bit Samsung, though, isn’t it, and the last time Apple did curved glass (with one of the many iPod nano iterations) everyone bloody hated it. Plus, consider this:
- iPod touch: thin, flat, metal-back, flat screen.
- iPad 2: thin, flat, metal-back, flat screen.
I’d come to some sort of conclusion about the iPhone 5’s form factor based on the above points if I wasn’t drunk on gin* to TAKE AWAY THE PAIN of all the sodding iPhone rumours.
* OK, water **.
** And I’m not drunk, but I almost wish I was, having read those rumours.
I just want to know where all the iPad 3 rumours are, long overdue I think.
@Nathan: Ha—they sailed long ago. I was asked to write something on the iPad 3 back in March. (Although, to be fair, that was a wish-list, not a OMG LISTEN TO THIS news piece.)
Apple buying the glass cutting machines has got this rumor, of curve glass implementation in contrast with the conventional metal finishing. The possible advantages for the much awaited iphone 5 is that it might be non-conductive and would have smooth surface to hold which will have a feature of acquiring perfect reception of the signals. However, having glass on the edges might be prone to the clumsy mistakes and thus must be handled with most care.