Here’s what Apple’s rumoured ‘curved iPhones’ might look like
Alongside the news that Apple is reportedly working on touch-free iPhone controls, a recent Bloomberg report also indicated that the company is investigating using curved screens in its future handsets.
Now the website iDropNews has worked in conjunction with Martin Hajek to produce a number of mockups to give us an idea of what these iPhones could eventually look like.
For the most part the renders look more or less as you’d expect them to, and bring to mind LG’s previous range of curved phones, the LG G Flex and LG G Flex 2.
We’re slightly more bemused by the Nokia 8110-style keyboard cover which is included in a couple of the images, which would presumably cover half the screen with little benefit when the phone isn’t in use.
The last time news about a curved iPhone broke, it was for an entirely different reason. Back when the iPhone 6 first launched, some users reported that their handsets were bending if they put too much pressure on them.
Obviously an iPhone that’s designed to be curved would be a different story entirely.
Beyond curved phones there are hopes that we might see handsets one day with entirely flexible displays. Samsung is reportedly working on such a phone, codenamed the Galaxy X, for release in 2018, and earlier this year LG showed off a concept television with a display that could be rolled away entirely.
If Apple is indeed working on a curved iPhone, it’s unlikely that we’d see it within the next two years, so renders like this will be the best we’ll get for the foreseeable future.
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