Big Reversal! The rumored iPhone 15 Pro solid-state button is actually gone?
It has been reported that Apple's iPhone 15 Pro series models will use solid-state buttons, but well-known Apple analyst Guo Mingxi said that Apple has canceled this design.
Guo Mingxi said that because technical problems cannot be overcome before mass production, the iPhone 15Pro series will cancel the solid-state button design and change back to the original physical button design.
An almost fidelity design, now suddenly gone? Apple This is magic, say cancel and cancel?
You know, it's already April, the technical specifications of the new generation of models, many of them have already been set, temporary changes, is it time?
But Guo Mingxi said that it is now possible to change, and the current iPhone15 Pro is in the development stage of engineering verification products, so there is still time to change the design.
Moreover, eliminating solid-state keys and restoring physical keys simplifies the development and testing process, thereby increasing the speed of production.
The question is, what exactly is this solid-state button.
The "solid" in the solid-state button is the "fixed form", whether the button is pressed or not, the button will not change in shape.
Changes in shape, referring to effects such as stretching, toggling, sliding, seesawing, etc., will give the user information feedback that a function has been implemented.
Solid-state buttons, on the other hand, can simulate presses, long presses, and varying degrees of pressure sensitivity through capacitive sensing and haptic feedback.
Abandoning solid-state buttons is a pro and con decision for Apple, and returning to physical buttons is conducive to Apple controlling costs and avoiding the uncertainty caused by new technologies.
However, compared with solid-state buttons, physical buttons need to occupy a certain amount of space and weight, which is not good news for users who value feel and portability.
Moreover, the sealing of solid-state buttons is stronger than that of physical buttons, and recapturing physical buttons is not very conducive to the "integration" process of Apple's mobile phone.
The iPhone does not have many buttons, from the original generation, only the Home button, the On key and the up and down volume keys, and the mute key in the form of paddles.
Starting with the iPhone 7 series, the home button was changed to a solid-state button, but the other buttons remained the same, still physical.
Later iPhone 8 series, iPhone SE2/3, continued this design, but from the iPhone X, the home button was canceled.
As an important selling point of the iPhone 15Pro, since last year, the solid-state button has been hyped by various media.
It is rumored that all the physical buttons of the iPhone 15Pro have become solid-state buttons, realizing the situation of solid-state domination.
But if you use the physical button, the selling point of the iPhone 15Pro is one less, and the rumored new features, there are still these:
Ultra-narrow screen bezel, titanium body, new A17 chip, 8GB running memory, periscope telephoto lens.
According to rumors, the cover of the iPhone 15 Pro Max has a black border of only 1.55 mm, breaking the previous Xiaomi Mi 13 record of 1.88 mm border black border.
Thanks to the narrower black border of the screen, the iPhone 15 series screen is also larger, and the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro screen size is 6.2 inches.
The iPhone 15 Plus and iPhone 15 Pro Max became 6.8 inches.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max will be equipped with a periscope telephoto lens, which will also be the first model in Apple's history to be equipped with a periscope telephoto lens.
The new hybrid lens design enables 10x optical zoom capability, an obvious improvement over the iPhone 14 Pro's 3x optical zoom and 15x digital zoom.
However, these new features, it seems that they do not meet the interest of consumers, and whether they can support the sales of new iPhones is a big question.
There is less and less innovation, more and more selling points, such an iPhone 15 Pro, what results will eventually be achieved, it remains to be seen.