Apple may release a ‘mostly glass, curved iPhone’ in 2027

The iPhone 16 Pro Max, pictured here, is already beauteous glassy.

This morning, portion summarizing an Apple “product blitz” helium expects for 2027, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes successful his Power On newsletter that Apple is readying a “mostly glass, curved iPhone” with nary show cutouts for that year, which happens to beryllium the iPhone’s 20th anniversary.

That follows a study past play from The Information, which said that “at slightest 1 2027 iPhone exemplary that volition spot the front-facing camera underneath the surface to alteration a genuinely edge-to-edge display.” Late past year, a study from The Elec said Apple is moving with its show partners to make a bezel-less iPhone, but not 1 that curves the show down the broadside of the telephone — a instrumentality companies like Samsung and Vivo person employed successful the past.

But the “mostly glass, curved” portion of Gurman’s prediction is much absorbing to me, due to the fact that what the heck does that mean? After all, I’d picture the iPhone 15 Pro sitting connected my table close present arsenic “mostly glass,” with the lone exterior metallic being astir the camera lenses and successful its titanium edge, which the beforehand and backmost curve down to. Assuming he’s not describing a banana-shaped iPhone, the closest hints are astir apt successful Apple patents revealed implicit the years, similar one from 2019 that describes a telephone encased successful solid that “forms a continuous loop” astir the device.

Apart from a changing iPhone, Gurman describes what sounds similar a large twelvemonth for Apple. He reiterates past reports that the archetypal foldable iPhone should beryllium out by 2027, and that the company’s first astute glasses rival to Meta Ray-Bans volition beryllium on that year. So volition those rumored camera-equipped AirPods and Apple Watches, helium says.

Gurman besides suggests that Apple’s location robot — a tabletop robot that features “an AI adjunct with its ain personality” — volition travel successful 2027. On that “personality” mention, it’s hard not to deliberation astir the adorable robotic lamp Apple’s internal researchers person been tinkering with.

Finally, Gurman writes that by 2027 Apple could finally vessel an LLM-powered Siri and whitethorn person created caller chips for its server-side AI processing. A December study from The Information covered specified a improvement and suggested that the squad handling Apple’s caller AI chips is the aforesaid Israel-based silicon plan radical that was “instrumental successful designing” the Apple silicon chips that fto the institution ditch Intel chips for its Macs successful 2020.