The first ever iPhone was unveiled in January 2007, and went on sale in June that year. Thus, in 2027, Apple is celebrating the iPhone’s 20th anniversary. The company has long been rumored to be planning something special for this occasion, and today, a new leak from Digital Chat Station on Weibo purports to bring us more information.
According to the prolific leaker, Apple is working with Samsung on developing the 20th anniversary iPhone‘s screen. The panel will not have a polarizer, and will come with a quad-curved design, with the curvature radius customized by Apple.
So after years and years of Apple choosing flat displays for its smartphones, and influencing the entire Android smartphone market into going in the same direction, now Apple apparently wants to change course and ‘invent’ the quad-curved display that Chinese smartphone makers have used in the past.
Of course, the panel itself will be more modern, and the removal of the polarizer will make it slimmer, but it wouldn’t even be the first phone without a polarizer. It’s unclear how far the screen will reach over the edges – at one point Apple was rumored to be planning an “all-screen” look, but with current display tech that still doesn’t seem very doable. We’ll let you know when we find out more.
Source (in Chinese)
