In addition to being ugly, the bangs on the iPhone X will also cause these new problems

Discussions like "Apple is dead" apparently reached a peak when Apple released its new iPhone this fall.

However, despite being ugly, the bangs on the iPhone X are still Apple's most innovative feature this year. As iPhone X will be officially available for pre-order soon, this bangs will become the main focus when people discuss Apple phones.

Phone screens aren’t actually that big

Different from some domestic mobile phones that sell "narrow bezels" as "full screen", iPhone X is one of the most sincere full-screen mobile phones at this stage, but it is inevitable that some user-facing components need to be set on the front of the phone.

Apple's approach is to use a special-shaped screen to create a bangs on the top of the phone, causing the phone screen itself to no longer be a standard rectangle or rounded rectangle.

Some people say that using special-shaped screens on mobile phones is a way to drive UI designers to death, because the space on the mobile phone screen can no longer be maximized.

Due to the special shape of the iPhone X screen, Apple has redefined a suitable design "safe zone" for UI designers. The idea is to draw a regular rectangle within the range of the special-shaped screen as much as possible, leaving space for the bangs and the virtual Home indicator bar at the bottom of the phone. The actual useful display area is similar to the layout of the large forehead and large chin of Sony phones.

In landscape mode, Apple has reserved UI design "restricted areas" for the bangs on both sides of the screen to accommodate different users' different orientations of the phone. In addition, the virtual Home indicator bar must be retained at the bottom of the screen, making it impossible for the 5.8-inch iPhone X to fully utilize the screen area no matter what app is used.

Good days for scalpers may be just around the corner

The reason why iPhone X has bangs is that after Face ID, the facial recognition system, replaced the traditional Touch ID of the Home button, a lot of tiny sensors and components needed to be stuffed into the front of the phone.

According to information, the iPhone X's long and thin fringe incorporates up to eight components, including a speaker, microphone, 7-megapixel front camera, dot projector, ambient light sensor, distance sensor, floodlight sensor, and infrared lens.

Previously, Nikkei Asia Review and KGI Securities confirmed that it was the TrueDepth Camera System on the top of the iPhone X that caused serious production capacity problems.

Recently, the Wall Street Journal also pointed out that the main reason why iPhone X is slow to be stocked is that the assembly time of the dot matrix projector on the far right of the bangs is much slower than the infrared lens on the other side.

The production capacity issue is also the fundamental reason why the product is in short supply in the market. Moreover, iPhone X is the most attractive and worthwhile Apple phone this year.

For the iPhone X, which is already priced at nearly 10,000 yuan, the outside world has speculated that the pickup price through various channels in the early stage of listing is likely to double, or even exceed the 20,000 yuan mark.

It can be seen that scalpers who did not make enough money from iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus may have a chance to make a comeback on iPhone X.

A new security challenge that cannot be ignored

From passwords to fingerprints to the user's face, smartphones continue to provide users with new unlocking methods, with the aim of making communication between the phone and the user more secure, but this inevitably brings more security concerns.

How many people will see the data on my face? Naturally, this is the first thing you need to worry about before picking up your iPhone X to scan Face ID.

Recently, Apple officials have once again emphasized that in the future, Face ID data will only be stored on the local phone. There is no need to worry about uploading it, let alone leaking it. Apple has taken multiple anti-leakage measures for this.

In addition, Apple also reiterated that it has deliberately protected the privacy of users such as Apple Pay, iPhone, iMessage, Siri, iCloud, photos, etc., and will not snoop on personal data or transfer such data.

It is not difficult to find that whether it is the Home button equipped with fingerprint recognition function or the bangs that can recognize facial information, users have transferred more and more personal data, and even facial features, to the smart terminal devices in their hands.

Will Face ID, which Apple will promote in the future, be as convenient and reliable as Touch ID? It will take time to verify.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.