New Apple Education Push Earns a Passing Grade
- by Patti Cortez
- in Sci-tech
- — Apr 8, 2018
Now a new report from Bloomberg suggests that Apple might be working on curved screens and touchless gesture controls.
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A Google unit is also moving forward with a similar technology codenamed "Project Soli".
Apparently, Apple is going to achieve another milestone by letting its users to interact with their phones without tapping them. iPhone users will just need to make some gestures to perform certain tasks. Also, the new screens would curve "inward gradually from top to bottom", not along the sides like with Samsung phones, the publication said. The iPhone X's OLED screen curves slightly at the bottom, but the shape is hard to detect.
Apple's touchless gestures will be different here as well. The feature would be based on technology built into the display itself rather than via a motion sensor on the phone's bezel, like with Samsung's implementation, the person explained. Ben Lovejoy speculated how curved screens could eventually lead to a foldable iPhone, which certainly seems more practical than this. Apple launched a large-scale probe, which led to a temporary suspension at some parts plants.
