This morning, while summarizing anticipated Apple product developments for 2027, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shared in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning to introduce a “mostly glass, curved iPhone” with no display cutouts, coinciding with the iPhone’s 20th anniversary.
This follows a recent report from The Information, which indicated that “at least one 2027 iPhone model” will integrate the front-facing camera beneath the screen for a complete edge-to-edge display. Late last year, The Elec reported that Apple is collaborating with its display partners to develop a bezel-less iPhone, though not one with a display that curves over the phone’s sides—an approach previously utilized by companies like Samsung and Vivo.
The “mostly glass, curved” aspect of Gurman’s forecast intrigues me the most. What exactly does that mean? Presently, I would consider the iPhone 15 Pro on my desk as “mostly glass,” with metal only around the camera lenses and its titanium frame, to which the front and back curve seamlessly. Unless he envisions a banana-shaped iPhone, the closest hints come from Apple patents over the years, like a 2019 patent describing a glass-encased phone that “forms a continuous loop” around the device.
Finally, Gurman writes that by 2027 Apple could finally ship an LLM-powered Siri and may have created new chips for its server-side AI processing. A December report from The Information covered such a development and suggested that the team handling Apple’s new AI chips is the same Israel-based silicon design group that was “instrumental in designing” the Apple silicon chips that let the company ditch Intel chips for its Macs in 2020.
