#apple may replace the home button with a ‘function area’ on the next #iphone
February 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
The next iPhone could see the elimination of the Home button and Touch ID sensor in favor of an edge-to-edge design and “virtual buttons” at the bottom of the screen. The rumors come from the well-sourced Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst for KGI, via MacRumors.
There is said to be a new phone with a 5.8-inch OLED screen (2800×1242), but with a 5.15-inch useful screen size with the rest of the screen used for virtual buttons at the bottom. Kuo believes the phone “will come with other biometric technologies that replace the current fingerprint recognition technology,” though it’s not clear what those technologies could be.
Kuo goes on to note that the 5.8-inch OLED device will likely have a similar footprint as the 4.7-inch TFT-LED…
