Apple can create an iPhone with disappearing buttons. This is reported by the Edition Appleinsider.
Detected on the website of the Office for Patents and Commodity Signs of the United States (USPTO) Application describes the creation of gadgets without physical buttons. Instead, Apple engineers offer special sensory surfaces to control tancing and manifesting themselves as needed. The new invention is called “disappearing buttons.”
Justifying the need for such an element of the management of the engineers state that physical buttons on gadgets, in particular, smartphones are rudiment. “In the world of consumer devices, especially consumer electronics, there is a constant demand for an improved appearance, improved functionality,” the authors noted. Apple representatives compared the iPhone with a push-button phone and noticed that the comparison is not in favor of the last device.
also specialists noted that the physical buttons are repeated from the device and violate its integrity: “Simply compare the usual physical keyboard with the keyboard in iOS.” In addition, physical keys tend to break, which is practically excluded in the case of touch panels.
An important task, according to engineers, is the need to explain to the user exactly where the touch button is. In this case, the iphone owner or another of any gadget without physical buttons will be intuitively understood where controls are located.
In March, insiders said that Apple tests the prototype of a smartphone without physical holes. The company develops the Internet Recovery tool, which will allow you to bind the iPhone with a computer without direct connection.