KGI: new iPhone with 6.1 “LCD and frames thinner than iPhone X, but without 3D Touch

What Apple is re-evaluating the usefulness of 3D Touch? According to Ming-Chi Kuo, a well-known KGI Securities analyst, one of the three new iPhone models that the Cupertino company will present this year will not support this functionality.

The model of the iPhone in question should arrive with a 6.1 ” LCD, able to almost completely cover the front of the device. In the wake of the iPhone X design, this smartphone will present the notch on the top, necessary to host the TrueDepth Camera and sensors for Face ID, Animoji, Portrait Lighting and other functions.

For other features, we talk about 3GB of RAM, a single lens photographic module, and aluminum frames. The price should be included, at least for the US, between $ 700 and $ 800. An estimate higher than that of other analysts, for whom there was the talk of $ 650- $ 700.

In the wake of the rumor launched by Kuo, the Commercial Times of Taiwan has revealed that the alleged new iPhone with LCD display will have an aspect ratio of 18: 9 (or 2: 1). By comparison, the aspect ratio of the iPhone X’s Super Retina Display is 19.5: 9. The smartphone will take advantage of Japan Display’s Full Active LCD technology, a supplier of Apple.

From the report:

Japan Display claims that its improved LCD displays can reach or exceed some advantages of OLEDs but at a lower price. With Full Active technology, the edges of the display are reduced to 0.5 mm, says the company, much less than the millimeters of the old LCDs. […] Minitake Kashio, director of the Tokyo Fomalhaut Techno Solutions consulting firm, said that the current OLED panels of smartphones have frames measuring around 1 millimeter.

As a result of changes to the form factor, the display resolution of the new iPhone LCD should increase to 2160 x 1080 pixels. By comparison, the iPhone 7 Plus 5.5 “has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, while iPhone X 2436 x 1125 pixels at 458 ppi.

The other iPhone of the 2018 lineup, the successor to iPhone X and a Plus model with a 6.5 “display, should use an OLED display and 4GB of RAM.