Apple developing curved iPhone display and pressure sensors, report says

 

The iPhone 5S only released a couple of months ago, but that doesn’t mean Apple hasn’t been working on the iPhone 6 for quite some time. It also doesn’t mean that the news cycle would be void of iPhone 6 news even though you may have finally just received your backordered iPhone 5S. A report from Bloomberg — quoting the always omniscient sources familiar with the matter — claimed that Apple will be releasing two smartphone models toward the end of next year. Both models would have larger displays than the current models with glass that curved downward toward the edges. Apple is also reportedly developing pressure sensors that would be able to distinguish the difference between a hard and soft tap.
The source says the two models will feature 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch screens, catching the iPhone screen-size up with the rest of the market. As for the pressure sensors, they would give the phone a new method of input. The Phone already has gestures, tapping, and motion control, so there isn’t much room for a new type of input. Adding different options to the current method of input — in this case,  varying levels of pressure for screen taps — would give developers and users new ways to interact with a device, without drastically changing the device itself.
Apple is seen to be lagging behind Android devices in certain areas — namely screen size — but Samsung recently released the Galaxy Round, a curved 5.7-inch smartphone. So, now along with screen size (and smartwatches, if you find those useful), some could say that Apple is lagging behind Android in the realm of curved displays. Even if a slightly curved smartphone display isn’t the most practical innovation, Apple likely doesn’t want a laundry list of features that Android has over its own devices.
As is common knowledge at this point with Apple products, the Cupertino company famously develops many different prototypes when designing a new product. While often times rumors and speculation are just that — rumors and speculation — some of that stems from Apple actually developing the prototype, but it never seeing the fluorescent light of retail day for one reason or another.