Now that mountain pass are pop up on just about every newfangled smartphone screen , Apple ’s next iPhone will need some new tricks to suffer out from its competitors . But if areport from Bloomberg is dependable , instead of coming up with entirely novel ideas , it seems Apple may taste to crib some features from a fistful of five - twelvemonth - honest-to-god devices .
Bloomberg exact that two fresh features Apple is exploring for use on a future iPhone ( that ’s maybe two or three twelvemonth by ) admit “ touchless motion control ” that would allow a you manipulate the phone from an unspecified length , and displays “ that curve inward gradually from top to bottom , ” as oppose to the slosh edges found on earpiece like theGalaxy S9 . ground on Bloomberg ’s descriptions , these feature idea may not in reality be exclusively new , but instead a revivification of technical school from the phones of yesteryear .
For those who have followed the evolution of smartphones for awhile , you might call up that non - touch gestures are something that Samsung debuted on theGalaxy S4 in 2013 . Back then , Samsung called its features Air View and Air Gesture , which allow for you to do things like loom your hand over a tiny detector in the bezel to awaken the silver screen and view presentment , or curl your hand across the blind to interchange between tabs or flip through photos .
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Samsung was n’t the only caller to try out something like this either . On the2015 Moto X Pure , Motorola installed its own gesture control that would let you wave your helping hand over the covert to work the display on or off , in plus to a selection of traditional gesture like hold the phone and making a chop motion to twist on the torch , the latter of which is still available on more recent Moto handsets viaMoto Actions .
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As for that rumour , inside cut screen , Samsung did that first on theGalaxy Round in 2013(only eject in South Korea ) , which was then followed by theoriginal LG G Flexin 2014 , and then again on theG Flex 2 in 2015 . The G Flex even went one stone’s throw further , because on top of having a concave design that LG say made the sieve find more born and soothing to touch ( which it kinda did ) , the screens themselves had a little flex to them , which helped the phones endure a aliveness spent thrust inside user ’ pockets .
In the age since the Galaxy Round , S4 , and G Flex debut , however , both Samsung and LG have largely contribute up on the technology they pioneered five years ago . And if Apple could revive those ideas and potentially make them utile , that might be kind of overnice , just so long as the company does n’t seek to take credit for inventing the tech . After all , rather or by and by , everything old is new again .
[ Bloomberg ]
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