Apple Is Exploring The Use Of ‘LIPO’ Technology To Substantially Reduce Bezels On Its Premium iPhones And iPads
A new technology called LIPO has been dubbed by Apple and it will result in even slimmer bezels on iPhones and iPads
Cool…but remember Apple, we still have to hold these things with our hands. I had a Samsung with curved edges for two years and it was a bit of a disaster to use one handed.
I don’t want to kink shame the tech press, but we got to talk about the bezel fetish. These are functional devices and they need to interact with a human body, not just slowly rotate on a pedestal during a reveal event.
I guess we have no choice but to see this through. Achieve zero bezel, the press will finally be able to finish. And the the customer complaints will drive us back to sanity over the next few generations.
Yeah on the topic of phones I'm less concerned about the bezel being thin. I'm pretty whatever about it. So long as they don't wrap the display around the edge like some Androids, I don't really care.
But I use the iPad Pro as a drawing device and when you draw on a piece of paper, it's pretty impractical to draw to the edge. Same is true with a digital device. You need a bit of margin and in this case that's the bezel. Having an edge to edge display for an iPad isn't doing people any favors. It's just some dumb bullet point for a keynote. I didn't buy a 12.9 iPad for the small footprint. I'd buy a bigger one if they made it.
I really do think the bezels on the current models is about as slim as is practical in terms of using these things to draw.
Hopefully they add palm rejection for the edges 🤞
I had a OnePlus 8 for about 5 hours before returning it. The curved/edge less screen may look cool in a showroom, but it sucks for actual use. Also, as a dedicated dark mode user, I couldn’t stand the two vertical glare bars where the screen curve started. Especially in office lighting.
LiPo is also lighter. So I guess they’re also looking to reduce the mass of the phone.
With the entire English language at their disposal, they couldn’t come up with a new acronym that wasn’t the same as the one for the battery technology in the same phone?
I think the iPad is right now possibly the best form factor for a tablet before you introduce folding. There’s a reason the iPad Pro hasn’t changed its design for so long, and no one is asking for a redesign, bezels and all. I need to hold my iPad, and the bezel is small enough to never notice as it is on a larger device.
...so it's absolutely impossible to hold. It's becoming bad even now. I'm glad they at least got back to straight edges, my 11 Pro is impossible to firmly hold without a case.
LiPo? Lithium Polymer? Oh, nevermind.
I won’t be upgrading this year, but it’ll be cool to see how much thinner these bezels get.
Why? I’ve been struggling when I’m not using a case because my palms touch the screen when doing stuff. I need the case as a protection as ro not accidentally touch the screen.
An iPhone without bezels and a fingerprint scanner under the display would be amazing imo but don't make it curved, make the back curved instead.
@TheTechNerd
Agreed. Not only bezels are the problem. In fact, various tech companies have been pushing solutions that look nice but aren’t functional. Let’s consider phone sizes nowadays. Some of the bigger devices won’t fit neither in your hand nor your pocket, yet companies boast about how their devices get bigger and bigger every year. More space for content? Surely, but who needs that if you can’t use your phone with one hand
I had to buy a specific case to increase the bezzel size so I can hold my phone without constantly activating the touch screen...
They should use this technology on the Apple Watch but the the iPhone or iPad. Since the Watch doesn’t need to be held by the hand.
I don't like phones with little to no bezels because then I can't properly hold my phone without touching the screen.
