Your next phone may have a curved screen

Photo:Photo: Flicker - Janitor - Creative Commons License
Photo:Photo: Flicker – Janitor – Creative Commons License

Bloomberg is citing a source indicating a couple new technologies to be introduced in future Apple iPhone models.

The first is a curved screen, and the second is a pressure sensitive touch interface.

Two models planned for release in the second half of next year would feature larger displays with glass that curves downward at the edges, said the person, declining to be identified because the details aren’t public. Sensors that can distinguish heavy or light touches on the screen may be incorporated into subsequent models, the person said.

 

Via: Bloomberg

Apple on privacy and data collection

Apple released a formal report, today, regarding federal data collection requests.

They seem to include clear jabs at Google and Facebook with comments such as:

We have no interest in amassing personal information about our customers. We protect personal conversations by providing end-to-end encryption over iMessage and FaceTime. We do not store location data, Maps searches, or Siri requests in any identifiable form.

 

via: All Things D

Smartphones overtake those other phones

Today Apple will announce the new iPhone. 

Yesterday, Google announced over 500 Million Android devices had been activated.

As all this happens, the Pew Internet and American Life Project has come out with new numbers on Smartphone usage.

  • 45% of American Adults own Smartphones
  • 55% of mobile subscribers own Smartphones (For the first time… more of us are using smart phones than feature phones)
  • Nearly 70% of those who make over $75,000 own Smartphones

In a similar report, Nielsen indcates that 74% of young adults (25-34) now own smartphones.

Here is the demographic breakdown from Pew Continue reading “Smartphones overtake those other phones”