Apple will give its smartphone range a major design revamp in 2027 with an all-glass curved iPhone, according to recent reports.
The iPhone maker has been going through a bit of a rough patch in recent years, relatively speaking. The flow of genuinely transformative product launches has seemingly stopped, while its existing products are stuck in iteration limbo.
If fresh reports are to be believed, that could all be set to change in 2027 as the iPhone marks its 20th anniversary. The iPhone 19 Pro – working title – could be something special indeed.
Apple’s radical iPhone anniversary plans
Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman claimed earlier this week that Apple was planning to launch a mostly glass, curved iPhone with no notch cutouts in its display towards the end of 2027.
Following hot on the heels of that report, South Korea’s ETNews has issued a report corroborating these claims.
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The site’s industry sources claim (via machine translation) that “Apple is pushing forward with a plan to apply cutting-edge technologies to the iPhone to be released in 2027”.
Apparently, Apple is gunning for an impact akin to the iPhone X on the line’s 10th anniversary, when the company adopted OLED screen technology, dropped the Home button, and implemented Face ID.
For the 20th anniversary iPhone, Apple hopes to provide a four-sided bending display with a complete lack of bezels. A pure, solid state silicon battery may “dramatically increase energy density and extend battery life”.
