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“For more than ten years, we have been committed to creating a one-step full-screen iPhone. ItIt can make people completely immersed in it, but they become invisible. “This is what Jony Ive said in the iPhone X promotional video.

Obviously, like all consumers, Apple ’s ultimate goal is to create a true full-screen mobile phone with a full screen on the front.

However, three years later, can the bangs on the head of the iPhone move the knife?

Without bangs iPhone? No one can believe it

As usual, half a year before the release of the new flagship iPhone, various news will appear on the Internet. And these broke the news mainly around the price, number of models and the shape that everyone cares about most. After all, these three pieces of information basically determine whether consumers buy it or not Affordable, can you buy it and can you recognize it at a glance.

But among so many breaking news, Liu Hai is the most popular reader.

In fact, since the release of iPhone X and Apple ’s first use of Liu Haiping ’s design, “Can I cut the bangs this year?” seems to be the question that the majority of fruit fans ask each year.

The rumors of iPhone without bangs are actuallyIt has been circulating since the iPhone X was released. And this year, there are various reports of big and small, saying that Apple will meet everyone’s wishes this year, and there are even some so-called official reports.

In February of this year, Apple ’s official website featured a new Apple special backpack called Incase ICON Lite on the featured accessories page. To highlight the large capacity of this backpack, a MacBook, an iPad, and an iPhone are also placed in the official backpack.

Netizens known as Hyundai Levin Hook quickly discovered something was wrong in the picture. In this rendering, the iPhone has no bangs.

This news was quickly uploaded on the Internet, and Apple quickly made changes to this picture, adding a bang to the iPhone.

Something like the so-called official news broke out last year. At the end of last year, two iPhones without bangs appeared in the background of Apple’s official Weibo account and official Twitter account.

So, all kinds of weird voices began to appear on the Internet, some said that Apple accidentally used the wrong promotional materials, and some said that Apple deliberately leaked information to preheat new products.

In fact, when shooting promotional photos, if the mobile phone is not the main subject, and the screen display of the mobile phone is difficult to match the lighting environment on the scene, many photographers will actually give priority to the scene environment, and then take The screen goes up to P.

So the above two so-called official news broke, it is likely that in the later period, they forgot to fill up the bangs.

Although Apple, who has always been known for its rigor, made such a low-level mistake, it is indeed a bit unbelievable.

Because on the one hand, this is not Apple ’s usual method of publicity, on the other hand, Apple never lacks traffic in the warm-up of new products.

In addition to these so-called official warm-up maps, there is another breaking news this year that seems to be reliable, but in fact it also can’t stand the scrutiny.

The news came from the foreign technology website svetapple.sk. Last month, the website claimed to have found an official SIM card installation tutorial in the leaked iOS 14 code, and the tutorial legend, iPhone does not have bangs.

We have discussed in an article before that the credibility of these new product cues from engineers ’reverse deconstruction of new systems is actually quite high.

But if you take a closer look at this breaking news, the engineer who first discovered the clue is anonymous (usually public names) , followed by iOS actually does not have a SIM installation tutorial (download Apple support only) , so the authenticity is doubtful.

Of course, the most doubtful is the difficulty of the design itself.

Cut off bangs, it ’s not that simple

From the point of view of the breaking news, to make this kind of comprehensive screen, the solution is to put the components that were originally placed in the bangs into the upper bezel like the iPad Pro, thereby cutting off the bangs.

The iPad Pro can do it, it does not mean that the iPhone can do it. First of all, the iPad Pro solution does not actually reduce the Face ID module, but only makes the border thicker.

As you can see from the disassembly of iFixit, although the components in the Face ID module on the iPad Pro have changed in arrangement, the area occupied is almost the same as that on the iPhone.

Is it possible to further shrink the components? Of course it is possible, but it is too difficult.

The prototype of Face ID is actually the Kinect, which is a well-known peripheral for Xbox. After being acquired by Apple, Prime Sense, the original developer of Kinect, after Apple ’s powerful technology integration capabilities, eventually reduced the size of Kinect by nearly 10 times and finally stuffed it into the bangs of iPhone X.

Since the prototype with a width of about 63mm can be reduced to only 1/8, it should be reduced by a few millimeters, should n’t it be difficult?

The facts are just the opposite. As the higher the integration, the closer the size of the component is to the limit of the current technology, the smaller the space that the component can shrink, the greater the difficulty.

At present, the border of the iPhone 11 Pro is about 3mm. Even if it is increased to 4 ~ 5mm shown in the drawings, it is necessary to plug the components into the border. Whether it is the design of the components or the internal stacking, this year ’s technology is almost It’s still an impossible challenge.

Although last year ’s Meizu 16 tried to insert a camera in the frame of the phone, the entire iPhone bangs include an infrared camera, a dot matrix projector, etc. in addition to the front cameraWith 8 components, the difficulty can be said to be not in the same order of magnitude.

As Li Nan, the former vice president of Meizu, said in the forum, The iPhone without bangs is definitely the direction of Apple ’s efforts, but it will not appear this year.

Face ID will not be easily discarded

Of course, as long as Apple thinks, it is not difficult to make a true full-screen iPhone.

You can use the fingerprint under the screen without Face ID, you can use the screen sound technology if you do n’t want to leave the speaker opening, the front camera ca n’t be inserted into the frame and you do n’t want to dig holes, and the lifting camera can also be considered.

These technical solutions have been put into commercial use by many Android manufacturers, and some have even been iterated several times. This is just a matter of choice.

But obviously, for Apple, user experience is more important than design.

Taking my personal experience as an example, when I am used to using Face ID, when I need to use other Android devices for reasons such as evaluation, even if I am not using a structured light, I know that security will be reduced. But I still choose to use face unlocking (except for the period of long-term need to wear a mask) .

Because this kind of “it is for you to find you, not you to find it”, the unlock interaction will be more natural.

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In order to make Face ID easier to use and safer, Apple ’s investment is not small. Everyone may know that apart from Apple, many Android manufacturers have structured light facial recognition. But what you may not know is that The number of Apple lattices is almost twice that of these manufacturers .

You may know that Apple ’s Face ID uses Infrared Structured Light . But what you may not know is that in fact, a lot of infrared rays are contained in the sun. If you use a traditional 850nm wavelength infrared camera, there will be a lot of interference in facial recognition in the sun. In order to solve this problem, Apple also specifically acquired a company whose purpose is to allow the infrared camera on the iPhone to receive unconventional 960nm wavelength infrared outside lines.

It can be seen that Face ID is indeed a system that Apple has put a lot of effort into, and Apple will not optimize it so easily. And I am not alone in holding this view. In fact, Greg Joswiak, Apple ’s vice president of marketing, has already expressed similar views in an earlier interview:

Face ID is a very expensive system. Some competitors believe that a front lens can be used to create similar performance. Unfortunately, this is the gap. This is why we make such a costly part, because the safety it can achieve is a qualitative change after continuous superposition in 2D facial recognition technology.

I do n’t think Apple should be affected by other manufacturers, and should not give up in order to cut off bangsFace ID, or add a pop-up camera to scan the face. Apple won’t do this kind of thing. I will appreciate and trust people to try new things. Competition is what makes us better, but this is not the change we want to make.

Based on the above analysis, Apple still has a high probability of failing to give Liu Ping this year. Abandoning Face ID to use fingerprints on the screen is not in line with Apple ’s strategy and values, so this year I want to see iPhones without Liu Hai still It is unlikely.

But please do n’t be discouraged, because in the recent past, Jon Prosser, who has accurately predicted the product features and release time of the new iPad Pro and the new iPhone SE, shared a CAD sketch of the new iPhone. As can be seen from the figure, The bangs of the new iPhone, the position of the earpiece is moved directly above the frame, which saves a lot of horizontal space, which further reduces the volume of bangs.

From the point of view of implementation difficulty, it is obviously much simpler to just plug a receiver than to cram all devices into the frame. In addition, Bloomberg has also commented on the news. They believe that according to Apple ’s consistent progress, the design drawings of the new products have basically been finalized by April and May, so the drawings that came out at this time broke the credibility. Tend to be higher.

So this year, iPhones without bangs should not be seen. Repair bangs and replace them with bangs. There should be no problem.

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