The home button has been a feature of the iPhone since the first generation Smartphones of the US giant Apple. The new model, the iPhone 8 will probably do without the well-known and only button on the display. Instead, they speculate Apple specialists from the "Mac & i" department from heise online via a screen that recognizes the necessary finger pressure everywhere. It is also possible to recognize the fingerprint exclusively in the new "Function Area" of the compact 5,8 inch screen. This area should take up the entire lower area and be equipped with virtual buttons that can be flexibly adapted to apps and user settings. The "Function" segment occupies the entire area (from edge to edge) that previously surrounded the home button.
New patent cause for excitement
The Taiwan Technical Sheet DigiTimes brought a lot of wind into the discussions and shop talk about the iPhone 8 with his publication of a new patent from Apple. After the news about the "Function Area", Apple received a patent that integrates the touch function into the entire screen. And so the feature not only serves to unlock the entire phone, but also certain apps, such as e-mails, SMS, pictures, etc. With this, Apple would once again succeed in a small revolution. In the style of Steve Jobs, after the rather uninnovative iPhone 6 and 7, the latest model could then again trump with an incomparable novelty.
Thus, speculation about touch recognition in the function area or even the entire screen joins the red-hot information about Apple's new face recognition. It states that this is also to be updated. The phone can only be unlocked by picking it up and looking at it.
Synaptics and Qualcomms lose out
The question of the manufacturer of the complicated technology is less controversial. Apple relies on the quality of the previous supplier for all chips inside Apple smartphones: "TSMC". The manufacturer is said to have gotten the lead, "Synaptics" with the Natural ID technology and "Qualcomm" with the Sense ID technology have probably lost the pitch. TSMC spoke of the earliest start of production in September of this year.
The patent caused a stir, full Touch ID recognition over the entire 5,8 inch would be imaginative and functionally superior to all other smartphones to date. The iPhone 8 will show whether Apple can build on "old" successes and work back its innovative reputation!
