iPhone Smart Bezel?
An new patent application from Apple shows how the iPhone may get a ‘Smart Bezel’ that allows additional indicators to be displayed in the bezel.
The new bezel has been designed to ‘hold’ these indicators so that screen real estate is not take up with instruction or guidance.
Here is what PatentlyApple posted…
Apple intends to introduce a method that employs a very cool secondary display scheme that utilizes a printed segmented electroluminescence display. Apple intends to use the secondary display to introduce a set of new illuminated indicators that are able morph into various controls for work and play. Illuminated gaming and productivity controls could be built into the face-side of the bezel and/or selected back-side areas of iOS devices like the iPad.
The picture below shows how indicators could be implemented allowing developers to ‘draw’ different icons.
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