This morning, whereas summarizing an Apple “product blitz” he expects for 2027, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in his Energy On publication that Apple is planning a “principally glass, curved iPhone” with no show cutouts for that 12 months, which occurs to be the iPhone’s twentieth anniversary.
That follows a report final weekend from The Info, which stated that “not less than one 2027 iPhone mannequin that may place the front-facing digital camera beneath the display to allow a very edge-to-edge show.” Late final 12 months, a report from The Elec stated Apple is working with its show companions to create a bezel-less iPhone, however not one which curves the show down the facet of the cellphone — a trick corporations like Samsung and Vivo have employed previously.
However the “principally glass, curved” a part of Gurman’s prediction is extra attention-grabbing to me, as a result of what the heck does that imply? In spite of everything, I’d describe the iPhone 15 Professional sitting on my desk proper now as “principally glass,” with the one exterior steel being across the digital camera lenses and in its titanium edge, which the back and front curve all the way down to. Assuming he’s not describing a banana-shaped iPhone, the closest hints are most likely in Apple patents revealed over time, like one from 2019 that describes a cellphone encased in glass that “varieties a steady loop” across the machine.
Lastly, Gurman writes that by 2027 Apple might lastly ship an LLM-powered Siri and should have created new chips for its server-side AI processing. A December report from The Info lined such a improvement and advised that the workforce dealing with Apple’s new AI chips is identical Israel-based silicon design group that was “instrumental in designing” the Apple silicon chips that allow the corporate ditch Intel chips for its Macs in 2020.
