This morning, whereas summarizing an Apple “product blitz” he expects for 2027, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in his Energy On e-newsletter that Apple is planning a “principally glass, curved iPhone” with no show cutouts for that yr, which occurs to be the iPhone’s twentieth anniversary.
That follows a report final weekend from The Data, which mentioned that “a minimum of one 2027 iPhone mannequin that may place the front-facing digital camera beneath the display to allow a really edge-to-edge show.” Late final yr, a report from The Elec mentioned 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 telephone — a trick firms like Samsung and Vivo have employed prior to now.
However the “principally glass, curved” a part of Gurman’s prediction is extra fascinating to me, as a result of what the heck does that imply? In any case, I’d describe the iPhone 15 Professional sitting on my desk proper now as “principally glass,” with the one exterior metallic 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 in all probability in Apple patents revealed over time, like one from 2019 that describes a telephone encased in glass that “varieties a steady loop” across the gadget.
Lastly, Gurman writes that by 2027 Apple may lastly ship an LLM-powered Siri and will have created new chips for its server-side AI processing. A December report from The Data coated such a improvement and advised that the staff dealing with Apple’s new AI chips is similar Israel-based silicon design group that was “instrumental in designing” the Apple silicon chips that permit the corporate ditch Intel chips for its Macs in 2020.
