Bizarre flex, Apple, however okay
iPhone 16 Professional Max : 163.024mm × 77.575mm × 8.26mm, display screen: 6.883 inches, equal width on all 4 sides, panel bezel 1.153mm (S24U 1.55mm), complete bezel together with the center body 2.146mm (S24U 3.38mm). ​​​
The iPhone 16 Professional Max would be the world’s closest smartphone to a… pic.twitter.com/JbQyMo2ZYe— ICE UNIVERSE (@UniverseIce) June 5, 2024
If Apple manages to drag this off, it could be undoubtedly a big engineering achievement as, particularly with the underside aspect of the bezel the place the show connector resides, it is extremely exhausting to skinny bezels additional with out compromising on efficiency or sturdiness.
Rumors have it that a number of the show diagonal’s improve from 6.7 to six.9 inches has been made attainable exactly on account of the brand new and thinner bezels. This, nonetheless, resembles Apple’s argument when it launched the iPhone X with the notch cutout.Â
As an alternative of calling it a design abomination, Apple argued that it is not the notch which encroaches into the display screen, however the different manner round, and the panel has further house on the perimeters of the notch for displaying content material.
It is not you, it is me, the curse of Face ID
Granted, the unconscious will register the extra elegant body across the iPhone 16 Professional Max show, and Apple is all about visible particulars and first impressions. The curse of Face ID will observe it into the brand new telephone, although, irrespective of how a lot bezel it shaves off from the perimeters.
“The thinnest telephone bezel” bragging rights will add some further display screen canvas to browse and watch motion pictures on, and it could be exhausting to argue in opposition to that. It’ll, nonetheless, alleviate not one of the design choices that Apple has needed to cope with ever because it determined to be cool and distinctive with its biometry, and changed fingerprint scanning with face recognition.
First, it was the notch and the display screen “horns” on its aspect that took an excellent a part of the iPhone display screen’s high. Then the notch shrank a bit, however nonetheless seemed like a cutout of the usable display screen space.
Apple iPhone’s Dynamic Island cutout vs notch display screen space
Briefly, what Apple giveth in lowering the display screen bezel width, it did already take away with the Dynamic Island. Nominally a lift to the iPhone’s screen-to-body ratio, the seen pixels above the display screen holes are just about unusable.
The Dynamic Island sits decrease than the bottom a part of the notch earlier than it. Whereas it takes much less width than the notch, permitting for some cool notification results that cover its provocative design resolution, it truly occupies a tad extra vertical house total, particularly with third-party apps that aren’t optimized to show something within the few pixels above it.Â
Apple cannot backtrack on Face ID now, although, so the thinnest bezel report of the iPhone 16 Professional Max would probably ring hole till Apple finds a strategy to bury the Dynamic Island {hardware} beneath the display screen, a minimum of partially.