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Hope there’s plenty of room in your pockets. Apple’s rumored iPhone 20 Pro and Pro Max could have the largest displays in iPhone history alongside a quad-curved, nearly all-glass exterior.
Digital Chat Station, a prominent anonymous tech insider on the Chinese social media platform Weibo and a reliable source of Apple news in the past, posted over the weekend that the iPhone 20 Pro screen would be 6.41 inches and the Pro Max 6.96 inches, measured diagonally. The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, which hit stores last Friday, measure 6.27 inches and 6.86 inches (Apple rounds up to 6.3 inches and 6.9 inches). The iPhone Duo, Apple’s long-awaited first foldable phone, which reaches stores on Oct. 23, has a diagonal 7.6-inch inner display when open.
A representative for Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
CNET Senior Reporter Abrar Al-Heeti said that larger screens are great for watching videos and working on the go, but bigger displays also mean higher costs for consumers, serving as an “excuse for companies to charge you more.”
“Along with the commemorative angle of the iPhone’s 20th anniversary, it’s likely Apple could use design elements like a bigger screen and an all-glass design to hike prices,” Al-Heeti said.
More glass, smaller Dynamic Island
Digital Chat Station backed Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman’s August report that the exterior of the new flagship phones would be nearly all glass in what’s called a quad-curved design. That means the glass will wrap around all four sides of the phone, making it look as if there is no bezel.
In his report last month, Gurman said that the glass on the front and back of the phones would “curve into the sides of the devices, with a metal band in the middle.”
The exteriors of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are made of aluminum and ceramic glass.
The iPhone 20 Pro and Pro Max will also have a smaller Dynamic Island and a tiny punch-hole selfie cutout on the front, according to Digital Chat Station.
The Dynamic Island is the capsule-shaped region at the top of the front screen that houses the selfie camera and which also expands and contracts to display notifications, system alerts and background activities.
The iPhone 20 Pro and Pro Max are expected to launch in September 2027 as the next iteration in the series. Apple is widely expected to skip over the iPhone 19 name and jump straight to iPhone 20 next year, marking the 20th anniversary of the first iPhone launch in 2007.
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