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Since Apple launched the first narrow-bezel iPhone X in 2017, and equipped with a bang design, until after the iPhone 13 series in 2021, Apple finally redesigned the bangs, but it did not make the bangs disappear, but just changed the width of the bangs for the iPhone 13 Narrowing the space by 20% has also been criticized by many netizens as having no new ideas.
I believe that many iPhone users are looking forward to the disappearance or removal of the bangs. Even if the fingerprint recognition under the screen or the fingerprint recognition of the power button is added, after the global outbreak in 2020, the Face ID function will easily fail when the mask is unlocked. Apple Only the introduction of a password or Apple Watch mask unlocking method is introduced, and users will inevitably criticize the solution as being super impractical.
Apple claims that the bangs of the iPhone 13 will be reduced by 20% compared to the old models in 2021. It seems that the bangs of the iPhone have been greatly improved and adjusted, and sharp-eyed users have found that the thickness of the black borders has also become larger! Even some developers have found that the status bar space cannot be filled with battery percentage data.
Apple still insists on keeping the iPhone bang design, but many people are curious to ask. Many Android phones have made under-screen lenses, punch-hole screens, and water drop screens, even with under-screen fingerprint touch and power button touch. Functions can be seen everywhere on Android phones. Apple insists on retaining the bangs design and Face ID for the iPhone in 2021. Has it been seriously outdated?
In this regard, the two editors of the foreign media The Verge (Chaim Gartenberg, Sean Hollister) also have different views on iPhone bangs and Face ID. Let’s learn about them together:
Should iPhone bangs be removed or kept?
Chaim Gartenberg: Since the launch of the iPhone X, I have been using Liu Haiping from the iPhone. I still want to defend Liu Haiping. Compared with the previous frame design, this is obviously an improvement; now it is difficult to return to the iPhone SE style design (the upper and lower black areas), although many features based on Face ID are flashy things, but Its core functions are still very good.
For example, when I want to unlock the phone, Face ID starts to work, and it works very well, mainly because it integrates a variety of technologies (including various sensors, infrared transmitters and front lenses). It is true that Android phones rarely do not have the iPhone Liu Hai design, but the effect of the face unlocking system has not been as easy to use as the iPhone so far. If the Liu Hai is the price for this convenience, I can accept it.
Sean Hollister: Of course, I admit that Face ID is very good. This is the best function I can use after switching from Android to iPhone. No other function is better than this. I can’t imagine that it is so easy to log in to bank accounts, manage passwords, or view case records. This is a mockery of Android, but also a compliment to the iPhone—because what I really like is speed, which has nothing to do with human faces.
Why can’t Android realize the standardization of fast fingerprint recognition function so far? Design a sensor that is placed exactly where my finger is? Why did Apple always insist on putting the Touch ID fingerprint sensor at the bottom of the screen? I find it awkward, why not put the fingerprint sensor on the Apple logo on the back?
Chaim Gartenberg: Because the Touch iD fingerprint sensor is placed on the back of the iPhone, it is easy to damage the beautiful and fragile glass back of the iPhone. If they can use the fingerprint recognition under the screen, it is best to design it at the bottom of the screen on the front.
I support Apple to re-enable the Touch ID fingerprint recognition function, which can be integrated with the power button (just like the new iPad Mini and iPad Air),
Even if it does, Apple will still find a place for the front camera module. If the design is not accepted within the frame, there will be nowhere to put it. If you want to reduce the bangs and have fewer functions, or you want to have big bangs and more functions, Face ID is the best choice in the end.
Sean Holliste: Perhaps Apple can imitate the practices of other Android mobile phone manufacturers, punching a small hole on the screen instead of having to use such big bangs or using an off-screen lens. This technology has been circulating for a long time.
Speaking of this, why doesn’t Apple use off-screen fingerprint recognition for the iPhone? Didn’t use a punch screen to install Faceb ID? I’m not saying that such bangs make me bored every time I see the screen, but the OLED effect is still very good. There is really no need to design such big bangs for a few fancy infrared emitters.
Chaim Gartenberg: It seems that there are still some problems with the lens design under the iPhone screen. Assuming that Apple is also preparing to adopt this technology, it can be imagined that it will take some time for this technology to truly reach people’s imagination.
But even if it achieves the desired effect, Face ID is more than just a few infrared transmitters. Remember when Apple released the iPhone X, this Face ID bangs design was provided?
There are too many parts inside, it is difficult to achieve with a punch-hole screen-even if Apple is willing to use a dual-lens punch-hole screen like the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus, it may need to punch several holes on the iPhone.
Of course, the most important reason for supporting the restoration of fingerprint recognition comes from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. For the pandemic, we have to wear masks all day when we go out, and the recognition effect of Face ID is greatly reduced. When the epidemic slows, it will be easier to unlock your phone when you are away.
Sean Holliste: I’m going to leave this matter for later. The result is that you are one step ahead. Do you agree that speed is more important than Face ID?
Just talk about the picture above! The speakers, microphones, ambient light sensors, and distance sensors in the Face ID block are actually found in ordinary mobile phones and can be easily installed on the frame of the mobile phone. Even if Face ID really has to arrange a series of components together, like the Pixel 4, replace the “bangs” with a small “forehead”, isn’t that good?
If you can increase the battery capacity in the extra part, then this change is completely acceptable, or you can design a good headphone jack. Pixel 4 will fail, certainly not because of the design, but because of its poor battery life, few gimmicks, and insufficient marketing.
Chaim Gartenberg: I think it may have something to do with the design. Pixel 4 actually proves my point: Google is to integrate Soli radar gesture sensing technology gimmicks, and integrate more technologies than Face ID.
For the camera, a thick black border is added to the entire phone, which feels worse than bangs. The bangs screen can at least use the left and right sides of the screen to display status bar information.
Apple may restore the Touch ID fingerprint recognition technology for the iPhone in the future, which may be in the form of buttons or under-screen fingerprint recognition. But even so, it is hard to imagine that they will give up Face ID at present.
Whether you like the current iPhone bangs design or not, you can be sure that in the future I am afraid I will have to endure seeing the iPhone bangs screen for a while!
As for the actual removal of iPhone bangs design issues, please refer to another in-depth analysis “iPhone bangs going to disappear? When will no bangs come? Tell you what problems Apple faces.”
source:The Verge
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