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Apple, Curvy Smartphone Maker?

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Will future iPhones differ from the norm with larger, curved glass displays armed with pressure-sensitive touch sensors?  So reports Bloomberg, before claiming two such models will be available come H2 2013.

curved iPhoneAccording to "a person familiar with the plans" the curvy iPhones will feature 4.7- and 5.5-inch displays with "glass that curves downward at the edges."

Subsequent curvy iPhone models might also be able to distinguish between different levels of pressure, the anonymous source continues.

Apple moving towards bigger devices might not come as too much of a surprise-- the 3.5-inch iPhone 5C/S looks diminutive compared to any number of 5-inch Android handsets-- but a take on the curvy form factor might turn a few heads, even if it sounds less radical than the curved displays seen in the Samsung Galaxy Round or the LG G Flex.

Earlier rumours suggest Apple will also make use of curved glass in smartwatch design.

“Screen size is one of the things where Apple has to catch up to the Android camp,” Yuanta Financial Holding analyst Dennis Chan tells Bloomberg. “Innovation in components has been a key for Apple since the first iPhone came out.”

Go Apple Said Developing Curved iPHone Screens, New Sensors (Bloomberg)