iPhones could get ‘touchless control’ and drastic curves in ‘as little as two to three years’

Apple reportedly sees the iPhones of the (distant) future as curved "gradually from top to bottom", while supporting various non-touch gesture controls.

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Foldable smartphones are still not a thing, but Samsung is already working on stretchable OLED screens

Forget futuristic smartphones with bendable, foldable or rollable displays, and try to imagine one sporting an entirely stretchable OLED screen.

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Trusted source details iPhone 8 OLED execution, with ‘gentler’ curves than the Galaxy S7 Edge

It's no longer a big secret that Samsung will single-handedly supply OLED screens for Apple's premium iPhone 8, with subtle curves likely in tow.

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Huawei P10 and P10 Plus may go with both curved and flat screens

The much-anticipated Huawei P10 gets just a bit closer to release as we push away from the Mate 9 at CES 2017 as well as the Honor 6X. And company chairman Richard Yu is quite keen to do some promoting for the next bigger thing in mobile.

According to social media-based CTech on Weibo, Yu reportedly said that the P10 and a P10 Plus will be coming in both curved and flat screen variants sometime in either March or April. Leaked renders do show both variants in play.

We’re not certain if Richard Yu made those claimed remarks, but we wouldn’t put it past his character to spill things like this.

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Xiaomi Mi Note 2 is all curves, but will there be a flat version?

The Mi Note 2 was long in the making but is finally here. And it has the edge screen to show off. But what if you wanted just a plain, flat slab to use? Tough luck.

Xiaomi marketing director and head of counterfeit oversight Zang Zhiyuan reblogged a post on Chinese social media site Weibo that simply said that the Mi Note 2 would not come in a flat version.

His comment? “Oh.” Is that all he could muster up?

Regardless, it seems that Zang’s reblog and comment have been taken as verification that despite rumors of a flat Note 2 floating around, they’ve come, alas, to a dead end.

Bubble popping has become more of a popular activity in recent times with Meizu and OnePlus also having shot down a few whispers.

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Zauba may have teased model number of Galaxy Note 7 edge

There have been rumors floating about in China of an “edgy” Note 6 this season instead of an “edge+” model as Samsung put out last year. Well, it’s been a bit since we’ve talked about this rumor and, lo and behold, rumors have gone ahead and changed the

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Connecting dots on Weibo to figure out the Meizu Pro 7

Weibo, like any other social media site, has its swarms of hornets occasionally. When it comes to mobile hardware leaks, disbelief can especially be prone to manifesting in awful ways.Take all of the rumors we’ve been compiling about a certain version of the Meizu PRO 6. It now seems that these photo leaks, previously connected to that device, have been implicated in a ...

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Huawei Mate S sequel may pile on the curved screen edges

Huawei was the hustler of the smartphone industry in 2015. It had four poles holding up a tent that spread across the world, not just its home country. And if the company’s pomp and circumstance didn’t put the Mate S up in the product ranks of the P8, the Nexus 6P and the

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Galaxy S6 edge+ review: supersizing the superphone

We’re hitting a point in mobile technology where flagship smartphones seemingly need to come in pairs; where manufacturers have foregone the idea of a “one size fits all” device, instead focusing on making two different sizes for two different kinds of people. The regular user, the one that’s perfectly content sacrificing some minor specifications in exchange for a phone that fits perfectly in their hand … and the power user that demands every last spec, every inch of screen that can be crammed into their smartphone of choice.Earlier this year, the

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Curved screens versus flat

OEMs are trying to find their place in this landscape. Some are more successful at this than others. But the one thing that many of these OEMs have in common is the fact that they’re all looking for that one magic bullet. That one thing that really sets them apart from others. Sometimes it’s building materials. Sometimes it’s software. Today, we’re talking about one such magic bullet – the curved screen phenomenon that we’ve seen of late.Curved screens have been somewhat elusive until recently for two real reasons. First, finding a durable material that could work being bent in ...

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Should this year’s Nexus phone use LG’s curved-screen tech?

Curved screens are nothing new to Google’s Nexus family of smartphones — or are they? The second iteration of Google’s flagship phone was made by Samsung. It was called the Nexus S. It’s successor was the Galaxy Nexus. Both had curved screens. But that’s not entirely true, is it? Both the Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus had curved glass, but that glass covered flat screens, thereby providing only the illusion of a curved screen. ...

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