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2020 iPhones Expected to Feature Thinner and Possibly More Power Efficient Displays

Making it more energy efficient to extend the life of a battery is always welcome. I would rather fill the ever slight space saved with a slightly bigger battery.
 
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I really hope this means Apple will be able to keep the same battery life of the 11 series phones or longer for the 2020 iPhones, even with 5G and ProMotion possibly coming.
 
Thinner is coming...
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izyreal said:
My hope is that Apple will use whatever space they save to increase the battery size. My current iPhone has great battery life, but I still wouldn’t mind a bit more.
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But I guess the size of your iPhone in a battery case (of any brand) is a step too far?
 
The iPhone 12 Pro better have at least 90hz refresh rate. “Pro” and 60hz is laughable.
 
I know many aren't fussed with the bezels, but really...can we make them thinner?
How is it that other manufacturers are able to?

Does Apple purposely make the iPhone 11 bezel slightly thicker than iPhone 11 Pro for positioning?
 
satchmo said:
I know many aren't fussed with the bezels, but really...can we make them thinner?
How is it that other manufacturers are able to?

Does Apple purposely make the iPhone 11 bezel slightly thicker than iPhone 11 Pro for positioning?
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Given that iPhone 11 Pro bezels are thicker than iPhone Xs, Apple can certainly make it thinner.
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Seanm87 said:
A thinner display leaves empty room inside the phone. They either fill that with something else (I.e battery) or they just make the phone itself thinner.
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Apple is adding a ToF camera which uses power and reduces available internal volume. It's pretty unlikely Apple will make the iPhone thinner to further decrease battery capacity.
 
Hooray technological progress! Hopefully this will also result in being able to add larger batteries to smaller phones, like a rumoured 5.4” one.
 
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Hooray technological progress! Hopefully this will also result in being able to add larger batteries to smaller phones, like a rumoured 5.4” one.
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That is what I have been holding out for. Still using the X, and have no reason to upgrade if we get essentially the same design with an updated camera.
 
The new one needs more RAM so hopefully the 6GB thing is true. On my 11 Pro, when I use the camera which is using multiple camera feeds it often clears out a lot of background apps which then take longer to load. As for the display tech, doesn't the iPhone have variable refresh rate but only down to 24Hz? If they could lower it down to 1Hz, that could save some battery when you're looking at static content, such as reading a website or email between scrolls. While they're at it, it would be nice if they could also bump the max refresh rate up to at least 90Hz, if not 120Hz like the iPad Pro. Though that would cancel out energy savings from 1Hz refresh. But this thing is also rumored to have a 5nm processor and that would also provide energy savings.
 
GLS said:
Color me confused, not by the display tech, but the whole new iPhone thing in 2020.

Apple always releases two generations of a phone (X, XS, 6, 6S) for example. They only went from 7 to 8 when the X was released.

So why would Apple jump from 11 and 11 Pro to 12 after one year?
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For the same reason thee was no 7s: different form factor. No way they will go with an 's' naming if they have a new design, new screen sizes and 5G.
 
What a time to be alive!

I kind of wish they would reduce the side bezels like some Samsung devices. Thinner is ok, narrower would be good for gripping and reaching across the phone screen using one hand.
 
A Display panel that has a single layer removed resulting a 0.1mm reduction.

And people immediately jumped to the conclusion of larger battery.
 
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satchmo said:
I know many aren't fussed with the bezels, but really...can we make them thinner?
How is it that other manufacturers are able to?

Does Apple purposely make the iPhone 11 bezel slightly thicker than iPhone 11 Pro for positioning?
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The 11 uses lcd and the pro uses oled. I don’t think there is a single phone on the market that uses lcd and has bezels that thin. If anything the pro bezel could be smaller.
 
I wish they would make their screens more scratch resistant.
No matter how much I take care of mine they always seem to develop lots of whisper like scratches.
 
Now that Ive is gone, The iPhone can finally get some proper power. 6Gig's of RAM sounds pleasing.
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dz5b609 said:
And make it even heavier? Yeah, no thank you.

The iPhone Xs Max is already at a barely acceptable weight. Also with the way Apple now has the battery this will also mean a more bottom heavy phone, disturbing the weight distribution which is the only thing that makes the Xs Max wieldable.
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what ? what do you weigh 3 pounds ? your arms the size of noodles ? Cmon man.
 
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ksec said:
A Display panel that has a single layer removed resulting a 0.1mm reduction.

And people immediately jumped to the conclusion of larger battery.
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Not sure where you came up with that number.

Adopting Samsung Y-OCTA alone reduces thickness by 0.6mm.

iPhone 11 Pro increased chassis thickness by 0.4mm and deleted 3D Touch for 0.25mm. Total = 0.65mm.


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