New Details on Next-Gen iPad, iPhone X Successors Leaked
With the recent release of the iPhone X, which has been highly anticipated by millions of users, brand-new details have been revealed about what Apple has planned for next year.
The iPhone X has been in short supply, with reports suggesting that the next batch of units won't arrive until next year. The first wave of the production was sold out in just minutes.
According to well-known tech insider Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has learned its lesson with this and will make sure that the production is steady for its next batch of offerings.
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Kuo adds the next iPhone and will reuse its TrueDepth technology for its camera, leaving the Touch ID behind. The Apple analyst explained in his latest research note picked up by Macrumors:
Apple won't repeat the mistake of supply disruption and delayed production as seen with iPhone X. We believe shipments of new 2H18F iPhones will arrive on time under stable supply in late 3Q18F. And given no major spec upgrade of a TrueDepth camera on these new models, we believe Apple will continue to use the same WLO for dot projector and 4P lens of an infrared camera as iPhone X. We believe the supply of both components is now stable, leaving no need to switch to other solutions.
This means that the next iPhones will not get much of an upgrade as far as the imaging department goes. This ultimately helps them produce enough units to meet the demand.
The use of the TrueDepth Camera will extend to Apple's iPad offerings. The next-generation tablets from the Cupertino giant will also ditch the Touch ID feature and will be updated with the new Face ID technology found on the iPhone X:
Because of this, we believe more developers will pay attention to TrueDepth Camera/ facial recognition related applications. We expect Apple's (US) major promotion of facial recognition related applications will encourage the Android camp to also dedicate more resources to developing hardware and facial recognition applications.
