iPhone 13 Pro 120Hz display now looks like a lock — thanks to Samsung

iPhone 13 Pro 120Hz brandish now looks like a lock — thanks to Samsung

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If there'south one iPhone 13 feature that's garnering the most attending in the build up to that phone's fall release — well, as well the prospect of a smaller notch — information technology's the thought that some iPhones could get a display with a faster refresh rate. A new report makes that look similar an fifty-fifty amend bet for the iPhone 13 Pro models.

The Elec reports that Apple has lined upward a supplier for the rigid flexible printed circuit boards that are needed to OLED panels with the phone'southward mainboard. And that supplier is Apple'southward main rival in the smartphone concern, Samsung.

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It's not unheard for Apple and Samsung to do business together. The Korean electronics giant already supplies Apple with OLED panels, and so it makes sense that Apple would turn to the company for RFPCB, as well. According to The Elec report, those circuit boards are to be used in the higher-tier Pro models of the iPhone 13, which will benefit from RFPCB's ability to fast transmission of electrical signals. Put some other style, this is the latest sign that the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone thirteen Pro Max are going to feature fast-refreshing displays that make use of depression-temperature polycrystalline oxide, or LTPO, technology.

The current iPhone 12 models characteristic displays that refresh at 60Hz, which is standard for most phones. In the past two years, though, an increasing number of phones led by Samsung's flagship models are turning to screens with faster refresh rates — the Galaxy S21 lineup, for case, tops out at 120Hz.

That trio of Samsung telephone too makes use of LTPO technology, which allows the phone to dynamically suit its refresh charge per unit, depending on whether you're engaged in an action that benefits from the faster rate. If yous're scrolling down a spider web page, for example, a high 120Hz rate means swiping volition look smoother on your screen. Other times, when you're doing something static like looking at a nevertheless image, an LTPO screen can slow downward its refresh rate to conserve battery power.

News that Samsung is supplying these circuit boards to Apple adds more weight to the rumor that the iPhone thirteen Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max volition follow the lead of the Galaxy S21 and other phones by adopting dynamically refreshing displays when they get in this fall. That will fill in a big gap between the iPhone and some of the leading Android devices.

The iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini, as well slated for a autumn release, would presumably stick with 60Hz refresh rates on its OLED screens.

Apple hasn't announced annihilation about the iPhone 13 yet, but it's a pretty practiced bet the telephone is far forth in production. Rumors about the new device suggest Apple will release four models all powered by the A15 Bionic chip with the size of the notch on the front display shrinking on all new iPhones. We're expecting to hear more about Apple's iPhone 13 plans as we get closer to the device's rumored September launch date.

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