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Personally I think its a good use of the space as well as it's implemented properly... would be nice to have certain colours that you could allocate to app notifications etc.
 
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The speaker cutout will most likely be where it is on the iPhone 12 and 13, in the top edge of the phone. Here is the picture from Apple's tech specs page for the 13. You can see where the ear speaker is on the top edge. It's how on the 12 and 13 they made the notch narrower.
Thanks for the info! I currently own the 12 Pro Max so wasn’t sure where they moved it for the 13.
 
How come the Samsung S22 has just a small hole?

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I think we are about 5 years out from a small hole design on the front. Unless they get rid of the face scanner. I just do not see it happening anytime soon.
 
I think we are about 5 years out from a small hole design on the front. Unless they get rid of the face scanner. I just do not see it happening anytime soon.
You might be right. Apple will not release it until they get it 100% right. However, separating from a notch is a welcome change for an iPhone.
 
Ok, so another question that hopefully isn't as stupid as my last one.

Why not take this pill shape and... push it up against the very top of the frame?
My guess and it’s purely that, is perhaps the front facing camera module needs the space from the top to fit behind the screen and therefore the blackout is aligning to where the camera sensor has to be?
 
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I gotta say it does look kind of clean...

Symmetrical, in the middle, looks kind of like a speaker hole.

That's a lot of high-tech camera set up in there though, I don't think that's stressed enough. No one has that type of security yet and it's been 5 years.
 
Fantastic. NOW it looks unlike any other phone out there. Never seen one quite like this. And I am constantly looking. I challenge anyone to show us another phone (with link to where it can be bought) that looks like this WITH bezels nearly as thin or thinner.

The software blackout is brilliant, and smacks of Apple.

Now smack me with that price-jump, keep it at 128gb, and that will provide the nice Apple 1-2 ooh-ouch that I’m used to!
This is exactly what I was thinking. Apple has a history of one-upping their own rumors and a design like this fits that pattern perfectly. This all feels very Apple (the design language and everything) to me and I'll be surprised if this isn't the route they take
 
My APL engineer-buddy tells me the pill/punch hole will indeed be hidden via software, I’ve been shown a glimpse of what we’re getting and I’ve tried my best to re create what I know.

There will be a elongated pill shape,
In between the camera and sensor housing the display will show notification dots (similar to Mac’s LED camera status indicator) for things like active microphone (orange), active camera (green), etc.

The camera app will also have a slight rearrangement, not much info on that but I did the best I could to show what it’ll be like.
Hey there, thanks for the leak. If your buddy knows anything about the new iPad Pro just let us know, please.

However, there’s a low chance for him to know, because of how isolated are some areas from others inside Apple.
 
Hey there, thanks for the leak. If your buddy knows anything about the new iPad Pro just let us know, please.

However, there’s a low chance for him to know, because of how isolated are some areas from others inside Apple.
My neighbors , aunts , uncle
, step sister works for Apple . None of this is true. 😂
 
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