IT168 Information Some time ago Sharp Corporation exhibited another brand-new frameless mobile phone, and the look and feel effect was quite amazing. Recently, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced a new Apple patent that directly embeds a light sensor in the screen of a device. This is a crucial step for the development of a borderless iPhone. In addition, according to the recent China Patent Office website exposure of Apple's two patent applications, the next generation of iPhone or will use dual slot.
U.S. Patent No. 9466653, published by the USPTO, states that "photosensitive devices are generally separate from the device display. Although this design is advantageous from a manufacturing point of view, it wastes space and in some cases forces the manufacturer to modify the original design. In fact, the iPhone's proximity and light sensors are located near the speakers above the display." Apple recommends arranging sensors on the display screen. Most of the implementations implement sensors on the OLED or LCD display layer, and some of them implement the arrangement of the sensors around the device's display screen to avoid inadvertent touch-sensitive display.
The key to Apple's patent is design. In addition to the light sensor, Apple also integrates other sensors into the display of the mobile phone, which is different from the current iPhone, iPad and other devices. The screen share of the mobile phone screen will be greatly increased, which helps to reduce the size of the device by several millimeters, laying the foundation for a truly frameless design.
The two patents Apple has applied for in China are dual SIM network selection technology and power reduction technology for dual SIM devices. You may be a little excited to see this, and you can finally see the iPhone supporting dual card dual standby. However, from the point of view of the specific Apple patent description, it does not seem to support the dual card dual standby that we usually understand, but to achieve the function of traveling around the world without changing the SIM card.
Apple applies the dual SIM network selection technology. The first SIM card is used for home network or one or multiple roaming network communications, and the second SIM card is used for local network communication outside the home network. That is to say, the user uses a physical SIM card network at the time of attribution, and the virtual SIM card used after going abroad can be connected to the local network by configuring a physical SIM card. In this way, a physical SIM card can be easily traveled around the globe without replacement.