Apple planning to significantly reduce iPad bezel sizes with LIPO technology

It’s been extensively reported that the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will function signficantly smaller bezels than their predecessors. In truth, a number of completely different CAD drawings obtained by 9to5Mac have allowed us to visualize these adjustments.

Now, Bloomberg has further particulars on these adjustments, and hints that the redesign may additionally make its manner to the iPad.

In the most recent version of the Power On publication, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman explains that Apple will shrink the dimensions of the bezel on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max from 2.2 millimeters down to 1.5 millimeters.

Apple will use a technology referred to as low-injection stress over-molding to accomplish this on the iPhone, one thing it previosuly used on the Apple Watch. But after bringing LIPO technology to the iPhone, Apple additionally reportedly needs to deliver the function to the iPad. The report explains:

This 12 months, two of the most important adjustments to the 15 line will get Apple nearer to that dream iPhone. The customary iPhone 15 fashions will commerce within the notch for the Dynamic Island, whereas the Pro and Pro Max shows can be made with a brand new technology: low-injection stress over-molding, or “LIPO” because it’s dubbed inside Apple.

That new course of will shrink the border dimension across the show to 1.5 millimeters (from about 2.2 millimeters on present iPhones). LIPO was first used within the Apple Watch Series 7 to make that gadget’s borders thinner and enhance the dimensions of the show. And Apple plans to ultimately deliver the function to the iPad as nicely, I’m informed.

Apple is claimed to have a brand new model of the iPad Pro within the works, but it surely appears unlikely that the LIPO technology. Still, Bloomberg’s report makes it clear that Apple is engaged on giving the iPad the identical visial overhaul in some unspecified time in the future, providing a serious discount in bezel sizes.

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