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All iPhone 14 Models May Feature 120Hz ProMotion Displays

For me 120Hz makes only sense if the display produce always 120 Hz and not like many manufacturers have some switches or throttled down the 120Hz when video streaming or on home screen. We will see on the iPhone 13 pro how apple will handle this. I am a lazy man most i lay down my iPhone unlocked and screen on, would funny to see how fast the burn in comes to my device.
 
"I find it interesting how specs like the 120Hz refresh rate screens is a huge issue when someone puts it out there that they’re coming, yet living with the iPhone 12’s generates zero complaints from everyday consumers (myself included). I’ve had and have been using an iPad Pro 12.9” since 2019, so I know what it’s like to have a variable refresh rate screen, but with my iPhone (12 Pro Max), what I care about most is (1) battery life and (2) connectivity / call quality. Because my iPhone is my primary work phone, I don’t need a screen refreshing at a high rate, as there is no benefit for my use case. I‘m sure that changes if your phone is your only or main device for video content consumption where it might be noticeable, but even then, isn’t battery life more important than screen refresh?"

jeez... really getting sick of these comments. just get over it. it's part of the future.
 
Previous posters who brought up last year’s 5G extravaganza by Apple were right on. There is a perfect example of Apple hype which brought very little usefulness to the user, but sold a lot of iPhones. Additionally, the carriers were able to upgrade lots accounts to unlimited data to be able to “use” 5G. I have not used 5G once on my iPhone 12 PM. The upcoming fantastic, better than ever phones promised each year are now a thing of the past. Minute changes in order to sell new phones.
 
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magicman32 said:
5G is marginally, at best, useful now. It most certainly wasn’t needed 2 years ago. It’s not anywhere near the game-changing feature it was made out to be. There’s nothing it does that substantially improves my user-experience over LTE.

120Hz I still couldn’t care less about and I have a phone that has it. Don’t even have it turned on. But that’s just me. I‘d rather have more battery.
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Shhhhh, be quiet or you'll ruin the entire tech industry's annual media hyped 'Big Thing!'.

I agree, IMHO 120hz is a largely inconsequential feature for the screen size of a smartphone. Most humans' ability to visually perceive at that size just doesn't make a doubled refresh rate consequential. But it's a specification number. Media loves to hype a specification number (or specification buzz word/name) and the average person can easily perceive 120 is double 60.
 
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autumnpatchouli said:
Previous posters who brought up last year’s 5G extravaganza by Apple were right on. There is a perfect example of Apple hype which brought very little usefulness to the user, but sold a lot of iPhones. Additionally, the carriers were able to upgrade lots accounts to unlimited data to be able to “use” 5G. I have not used 5G once on my iPhone 12 PM. The upcoming fantastic, better than ever phones promised each year are now a thing of the past. Minute changes in order to sell new phones.
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5G hype is not an exclusively Apple thing, not by a lot. Media hyping is not an Apple only thing, not my a country mile. For anyone old enough, back in the day the first media hype I remember was "it's a Multimedia Computer!". I eventially found out it basically meant it included a cheap pair of speakers! Wow!

More than Apple or Google or Microsoft or fill in the blank, hyping is more driven by Wall Street. Product or feature A = possible X hype(repeated ad nauseam) = increased revenue outlook optimism = increasing stock price = bigger bank account.
 
samplez said:
"I find it interesting how specs like the 120Hz refresh rate screens is a huge issue when someone puts it out there that they’re coming, yet living with the iPhone 12’s generates zero complaints from everyday consumers (myself included). I’ve had and have been using an iPad Pro 12.9” since 2019, so I know what it’s like to have a variable refresh rate screen, but with my iPhone (12 Pro Max), what I care about most is (1) battery life and (2) connectivity / call quality. Because my iPhone is my primary work phone, I don’t need a screen refreshing at a high rate, as there is no benefit for my use case. I‘m sure that changes if your phone is your only or main device for video content consumption where it might be noticeable, but even then, isn’t battery life more important than screen refresh?"

jeez... really getting sick of these comments. just get over it. it's part of the future.
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I have no issue with the future including 120Hz refresh rate screens. My issue is how so many tech reviewers and pundits make it out to be a MUST HAVE spec, while hundreds of millions of people could care less. I can go further - just go on YouTube and watch all the videos, even from prominent and respected reviewers, where they “show” how beneficial 120Hz refresh is by fast swiping / scrolling, as if that is how anyone uses a device in the real world. Then they slow down the camera’s shutter speed to show everyone how choppy the iPhone screen looks - which of course is NOT how anyone sees the screen in the real life.
 
JonGarrett said:
I'm used to it and not bothered by it. Their cult like mentality demands complete submission to Apple, facts be damned.
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The 120hz comment I read was from magicman. How was he blindly promoting Apple in a way that elicited this pro forma Apple hate response?

Irony defined: one who is compelled by hate of a consumer product line (in this case Apple products) so viscerally that it compels one to come to a fan site of those consumer products in order to tell these fans they are a factless cult.
A lot of smart people consider hate to be among the most if not the single most factless of motivations.
 
Apple will always have a "killer feature" every year they release a device, giving those with OCD or fanboy genes something to drive a yearly upgrade.

However, I'm not complaining. I'm glad that the 5G feature I don't get to use on my 12 Pro may become useful before I actually have a need to replace the device.

These devices are super powerful today as it is, so this pro motion display is a welcome addition. It is noticeable how different my iPad Pro and iPhone 12 FEEL to use.

I wish it came sooner, and frankly when I jumped back to iPhone at the end of last year I thought that iPhones already had it, so that was disappointing (but not a deal breaker).
 
Pixel response is just as important as 120hz. OLEDs have great response times, which lead to better scrolling animation. I notice the blur when switching to an LCD iPhone. OLED with 120hz will be golden.
 
So 2021 is the last year of the beautifully compact and big screen 5.4" form factor. That, or 120Hz in 2022 but you have to settle for 6.1"? The previous year's model every time.
 
GrumpyMom said:
I was like that with the display on my 12 mini. I’m not sure what happened but I don’t have as bad of a reaction anymore. I do get eye fatigue but I get that with any kind of reading at my age now. I used to get so sick from pwm I got seizures with one of my older iPhones and had to trade for an LCD model.
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Wow seizures! Yeah, it took me a while to realize it was the phone.. when I used the twelve, I felt like I had to throw up for a month straight… and I’m 30 :/. Everything’s going down hill from here
 
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gigapocket1 said:
Wow seizures! Yeah, it took me a while to realize it was the phone.. when I used the twelve, I felt like I had to throw up for a month straight… and I’m 30 :/. Everything’s going down hill from here
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I’m sorry you’re suffering more and more. I really don’t know how or why I got more adjusted to my 12 mini display. When I first got it, I could only use it a few minutes at a time because I felt like I was being punched in the eyes. I did just get a very thorough eye exam and my eyes are healthy! So despite dealing with pwm on various phones the last few years, there’s been no detectable damage via the standard tests conducted by opthamologists.
 
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Apple could offer its ProMotion display technology, which allows for a higher 120Hz refresh rate, across all models of the 2022 iPhone lineup after it's expected to debut the technology in the iPhone for the first time later this year.

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It's been widely reported that Apple plans to include a 120Hz refresh rate in this year's iPhone 13 lineup, but exclusive to only the high-end iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max. The lower-end iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini are not expected to include ProMotion technology. For the iPhone 13 lineup, Apple is enlisting two separate suppliers for its displays.

For the LTPO displays on the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, Apple will use panels produced by Samsung, which reportedly began production in May. On the other hand, for the lower-end iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini, which will feature LTPS displays, Apple will rely on LG.

For the 2022 iPhones, Apple is switching up the structure of its mobile lineup. Unlike the iPhone 12 and upcoming iPhone 13, which feature one 5.4-inch, two 6.1-inch, and one 6.7-inch model, the tentatively named "iPhone 14" series in 2022 will consist of two 6.1-inch and two 6.7-inch models.

With that new lineup, a new report from The Elec offers some color as to the state of Apple's display suppliers next year. The report says that LG, which currently only produces LTPS displays for Apple's low-end iPhones, will convert its production lines to supply Apple with displays capable of a 120Hz refresh rate.

If true, both of Apple’s main display suppliers, Samsung and LG, will be able to provide LTPO OLED displays, which may give Apple the option to include ProMotion technology across its entire ‌iPhone‌ 14 lineup.

While purely speculative, there are reasons to believe Apple may indeed go down this route. Currently, besides different screen sizes and finishes, the high-end and low-end iPhones share the same fundamental iPhone design. All models consist of the same notch-based design that first appeared in the iPhone X, making the only real differences between battery capacities and varying camera capabilities.

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Next year, Apple could be planning its most significant design change to the iPhone in years, potentially abandoning the notch in favor of a "punch-hole" design for some models. According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, some models of the 2022 iPhone series won't feature a notch but instead a "punch-hole display design" that's similar to some of Samsung's high-end Galaxy smartphones.

Kuo says the new design will debut in the high-end models at a minimum, possibly meaning the lower-end devices will retain the same notch-based design. In the iPhone 13 lineup, Apple will likely market the ProMotion display technology as the reason the higher-end iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max deserve their "Pro" nomenclature.

If the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max feature a "punch-hole" screen design, the high-end models of the lineup will be further differentiated from the non-Pro devices. That differentiation may provide Apple with leeway to expand the 120Hz refresh rate to all models without potentially devaluing the prestige its "Pro" devices hold.

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we just want a mini iPhone Pro 😭
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