Folding iPhone may sport touch sensitive edges, no home button

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Folding iPhone may sport touch sensitive edges, no home button
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While Samsung is eating its sweet piece of the foldable cake alone, Apple is yet to come up with a foldable iPhone.

. For better or worse, the Cupertino company is playing catch-up, and all we get from time to time are patent filings. Now it's time for the latest one.is the title of the patent filing, spotted by, and it concerns a potential foldable iPhone with edges that are touch-sensitive. The idea is to take advantage of the interface even when the phone is in a folded state.

"Buttons and other input devices may be used to gather input from a user, but this type of input device may not be as convenient and versatile as a touch sensor,""Displays are sometimes not visible from certain directions and may be smaller than desired.", the chassis enclosure of the folding device will contain the control circuits, batteries, and various other components.

And one more thing. It seems that the Touch ID feature won't be making a return. What do you think about it? Do we really need buttonless phones, or are they just a gimmick?Get the most important news, reviews and deals in mobile tech delivered straight to your inbox

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