2022 seems to be the year the iPhone finally breaks with the notch.
Whoever the Dave2D sources are, they must be pretty important people. YouTuber managed to get his hands on a fairly realistic looking simulated iPhone 14 Pro unit – the class that Apple previously delivers to case / accessory designers to help them make and launch updated accessories so as soon as the phone drops. It is rumored that Apple will drop only 4 iPhones this fall (the company will stop manufacturing the Mini) and while the 14 and 14 Max seem relatively unchanged, the high-end 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max have some updates. important design, especially the absence of the camera notch for something much more understated.
Apple released the notch in 2018, almost 4 years ago. Since then, almost every business has moved on to bigger and better things, but it looks like the iPhone maker hasn’t been able to pull off the intrusive design detail. In fact, in a year when even smaller companies were making phones with tighter bezels and camera clippings, Apple has faithfully pledged to give its iPhones an ugly, annoying forehead like a parent cutting their kids. bad. Curiously, Apple even discovered 5G before discovering screens without a notch.
However, if you have to believe the secret source of Dave2D, Apple has finally found an alternative solution, with a camera cut in the shape of “i” rather suitable for the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max. This creates the moment of the iPhone X for the Pro range, with a design that people can now instantly distinguish as a different and more premium model (in the same way that the notched iPhone X was distinguished of the iPhone 8). For someone who has used Android all their life, this doesn’t look very different, but if you’re a head of iOS series, this new camera clipping will instantly be the first thing your eye will immediately travel to. .. because for the first time, you have hardware that is actually “inside” the screen real estate.
It’s not entirely clear why Apple chose this unique cut (by now the company should have discovered FaceID under the screen, right?), But some speculate that this is the best thing the company could do given the serious circumstances and deadlines. Apple abandoned its Chinese front-facing camera maker for a South Korean manufacturer at the last minute due to quality and development issues. Rumor has it that this new camera system turned out to be three times more expensive than the normal notch, but given that the company has a tight deadline with its iPhone event at just 4 months, it was the best that could. do. Maybe the iPhone 15 will look better, right?
Aside from the front camera, it is rumored that the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max have the latest A16 Bionic chip from Apple. The specs of this chip are the kind of details no one will really know until Tim Cook or Phil Schiller give us the whole story.
Other notable details include a similar but slightly larger camera shot. It looks like Apple is pushing the envelope just by enlarging its iPhone cameras so that they have bigger sensors, and the iPhone 14 Pro doesn’t seem to be an exception. Another feature that is not surprising? Lightning connector at the base. Apple has until 2024-25 to adopt the USB-C format before EU people get angry, so this is likely to be the last, if not the second, iPhone with Apple’s proprietary lightning connector . It makes sense, considering that the company also sells iPhone accessories such as AirPods and the MagSafe battery pack that use the same cable / port.
Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 14 this September or October. While this prototype here seems to paint a pretty reliable picture of what to expect, there are still a few more details worth mentioning, such as colors, price, and the killer new feature that sets this iPhone apart from the others. (It was movie mode last year)