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 “largely 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 Information, which stated that “a minimum of one 2027 iPhone mannequin that can place the front-facing digicam beneath the display to allow a really edge-to-edge show.” Late final yr, a report from The Elec said Apple is working with its show companions to create a bezel-less iPhone, however not one which curves the show down the aspect of the cellphone — a trick corporations like Samsung and Vivo have employed previously.
However the “largely 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 “largely glass,” with the one exterior metallic being across the digicam lenses and in its titanium edge, which the back and front curve right down to. Assuming he’s not describing a banana-shaped iPhone, the closest hints are in all probability in Apple patents revealed through the years, like one from 2019 that describes a cellphone encased in glass that “types a steady loop” across the machine.
Lastly, Gurman writes that by 2027 Apple might finally ship an LLM-powered Siri and will have created new chips for its server-side AI processing. A December report from The Information lined such a growth and prompt that the crew 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.