New Apple patent suggests future iPhones could have a Digital Crown

New Apple patent suggests future iPhones could have a Digital Crown 

This year's iPhone is expected to bore everyone's brains out.

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Now, next year's iPhone...that's supposed to be the one with the sweeping changes. For the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, Apple surely has something grand planned.

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We've heard rumors of OLED displays, an all-new redesigned body (possibly back to glass), wireless charging, and the integration of the home button/Touch ID sensor directly underneath the screen itself.

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It's all really just speculation at this point.

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But here's an interesting possibility: a Digital Crown (like the one on the Apple Watch) on an iPhone. Yeah, it could happen.

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office has published a patent Apple filed in 2014 for a digital crown for devices that look suspiciously similar to iPhones and iPads.

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Button 204 in the published diagram below is the crown-like mechanism:

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At the time, I said a streamlined Digital Crown with an embedded Touch ID fingerprint sensor would actually be smart.

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"A digital crown would make it somewhat easier to replicate scrolling, and zooming in and out, without much finger muscle movement," I wrote.

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If Apple were to make this concept a reality, I would be one of the first in line to buy one.

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