iPhone 14 concept shows insane sliding design

iPhone xiv concept shows insane sliding design

(Image credit: ConceptsiPhone)

We already have a fairly practiced thought of what the iPhone xiv will expect like when information technology finally ships next year. And other than the death of the notch for the Pro model, nosotros're not expecting anything dramatically unlike from the next Apple phone.

But that doesn't stop people dreaming, and on the wackier finish of the spectrum is this sliding design from ConceptsiPhone, which you tin file under "absurd, but enormously impractical."

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As you lot tin can run across, this concept imagines a globe where the iPhone gets an expanded screen past physically sliding a top panel out to reveal a 2nd i underneath. Just this 1 only goes office of the way out, similar 2010'due south Nokia C6-00, rather than expanding to be a full-size second screen like the newly released Microsoft Surface Duo two.

In the video, the iPhone fourteen is shown revealing news headlines, displaying the settings carte and offer a much larger landscape keyboard. Information technology'due south all very flashy, but ultimately a bit pointless — an extra panel just for the sake of information technology.

The worst of all worlds

I'g reminded of that Jurassic Park line: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or non they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." Because if this were Apple tree'south respond to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, people would rightly ask if the company's designers had taken get out of their senses.

After all, the Galaxy Z Fold 3 is desirable because it combines a phone and small tablet in one. This iPhone concept provides, at best, 1.5 phones — and the 0.v function looks like a pain to use, too.

Of the purposes demonstrated, only the larger keyboard is of any practical use other than showing off. And fifty-fifty then, you'd be meliorate served with a physical BlackBerry style keyboard, rather than another touchscreen.

Just there'southward a reason we don't meet many of those nowadays. Samsung used to offer a concrete keyboard case for its Galaxy S phones, but stopped selling them with the Galaxy S8, presumably because they weren't pop plenty.

Given the main USP is straight out of Cloud Cuckoo State, it's perhaps unsurprising that the video chooses to double down with "Air Charge Technology", where a plug transmits power over the air. That's theoretically possible, but enormously wasteful — which is ironic, given the Apple News Plus headline on the front of the phone return talks well-nigh 85% of the world being impacted past climate alter.

An iPhone 14 concept — (Image credit: ConceptsiPhone)

Still: it'southward nice to see Touch ID dorsum, and no notch in sight.

While this design looks thoroughly unlikely, it's widely regarded as a affair of time before Apple treats u.s.a. to an iPhone Flip. Just as for timelines, we're looking at 2023 at the earliest, according to Ming-Chi Kuo. When it does finally arrive, though, you can bet Apple will have come up with something a lot more practical than this particular concept.

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Freelance contributor Alan has been writing nearly tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in betwixt. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional mag too. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably discover him tackling his e'er-growing games backlog. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.