We're starting to know, the rumors are getting loud and numerous enough to confirm the arrival of the very first iPhone with a foldable screen next year. And if Apple arrives years after its competitors, it's certainly not to face the same pitfalls that pioneers in their field systematically encounter.
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Thus, according to the Korean leaker Yeux 1122 (via macrumors), the device would use a screen with a manufacturing process specially designed by Samsung Display for Apple, which incidentally owns the rights to this technology, explaining why it is not already integrated into Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip. In addition, these screens meet Apple's particularly high standards in terms of thinness, power consumption and brightness.
Foldable iPhone, inauguration of a new screen technology££££
A new type of screen, therefore, never before used on a foldable device. The feat in terms of thinness was made possible thanks to the integration of the screen's touch sensor directly into the display panel, for a thinness 19% less than that of the Galaxy Z Fold. Result: less weight and increased strength. For comparison, existing foldable screens have two separate layers for the touch and the display.
In short, Apple hopes that its delay has not been in vain, and many of them analysts are convinced that this iPhone could take the foldable out of the niche in which it has settled since its arrival.
