Apple reportedly has a big redesign coming to next year’s iPhone Pro models, and a new ETNews report outlines what to expect from the “near-borderless” design and display.
But with Apple’s long lead times on iPhone development, it’s never too early for rumors about next year’s models. We’ve long heard that Apple is preparing a unique design for its 20th anniversary iPhone Pro models next year. So the defining characteristic of the 20th anniversary models seems very much on track, contrary to skepticism from Wall Street firm Jefferies last month. Apple is expected to postpone the adoption of two advanced display technologies—Color Filter on Encapsulation, or COE, and Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Oxide Plus, or LTPO+—that had been under consideration for its 20th-anniversary iPhone next year. These technologies could have enabled, respectively, a thinner panel and greater power efficiency. Industry sources reportedly attribute Apple’s decision to two main factors: higher memory pricing, which make it harder for Apple to absorb additional display costs, and the company seeking solutions that are better than current COE and LTPO+ options. It doesn’t sound like either upgrade would have been especially substantial. How interested are you in the 20th anniversary iPhone Pro models?
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Kim Yeong-ho writes that Apple “is still expected to move forward with a four-sided bending display” that’s “designed to create a near-borderless, full-screen appearance by curving the display around all four edges of the smartphone. What users will no doubt care more about is that the new “near-borderless” design is intact.
ETNews does say, however, that two display technologies previously being considered for the new iPhone Pro models will not be implemented after all. And today a new ETNews report offers the latest on what to expect.
