{"id":649579,"date":"2013-03-29T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=403701"},"modified":"2013-03-29T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:34:10","slug":"apple-patent-filing-shows-experimental-iphone-design-with-no-buttons-wraparound-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649579","title":{"rendered":"Apple patent filing shows experimental iPhone design with no buttons, \u2018wraparound\u2019 screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/apple-iphone-patent-experimental-design-403701\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"388\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/iphone-design-patent.jpg?w=620&amp;h=388&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple iPhone Patent\" title=\"Apple iPhone Patent\" \/><\/a><\/center>While it&#8217;s unlikely to ever see the light of day, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) has apparently been experimenting with a <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2011\/06\/21\/apple-iphone-5-to-be-major-update-after-all-announcement-and-availability-in-august\/\">radical new design for the iPhone<\/a> whose <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2008\/09\/06\/ipod-nano-4g-spy-photo-emerges\/\">casing looks much more like a fourth-generation iPod nano<\/a> than a typical smartphone. A <a href=\"http:\/\/appft1.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&amp;r=29&amp;p=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;d=PG01&amp;S1=%28apple.AS.+AND+20130328.PD.%29&amp;OS=an\/apple+and+pd\/3\/28\/2013&amp;RS=%28AN\/apple+AND+PD\/20130328%29\">recently published patent filing<\/a> spotted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/apple\/9959968\/Apple-designs-iPhone-with-wraparound-3D-display.html\">by <em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>\u00a0shows that Apple has been toying around with a device that features a curved display with no side bezels and no buttons anywhere on its case. Apple envisions that the curved display will be made from flexible material that can present &#8220;an illusion of depth perception&#8221; capable of &#8220;mimicking a 3D experience.&#8221; Apple also says that users would be able to control the volume on the phone &#8220;by holding a finger over the volume indicator&#8221; and &#8220;expanding the volume control over the entire left side of the device,&#8221; thus eliminating any need for a volume button.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/ke5F-TeJ87M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s unlikely to ever see the light of day, Apple (AAPL) has apparently been experimenting with a radical new design for the iPhone whose casing looks much more like a fourth-generation iPod nano than a typical smartphone. A recently published patent filing spotted by The Telegraph\u00a0shows that Apple has been toying around with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}