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Forbes
7 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Apple iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air To Have 1 Serious Let-Down, Report Says
Apple's 2025 crop of iPhones will have many innovations, it seems, but one element, the display on two of the iPhones, won't be the ProMotion screen many users have been hoping for. Apple iPhone 16 — the display technology looks like it's changing for the iPhone 17, but how, ... More exactly? That's the news from a leaker called Fixed Focus Digital, whose Weibo predictions have included some strong hits and a few misses — so they may yet be proved wrong. Since 2021, Apple's Pro iPhone models have included what's called a ProMotion display, that is, a screen with a much faster refresh rate than the regular iPhone: 120Hz instead of 60Hz. This faster refresh means the screen looks smoother when you're scrolling fast down a menu, for instance. Several reports have claimed that the next iPhone 17 and the slim phone thought to be called the iPhone 17 Air could finally transition to ProMotion displays. And a recent report on screen sizes seemed to suggest this could be the case. However, the latest Weibo post flatly contradicts this. Talking about the iPhone 17 series display refresh rate, 'just a normal 120hz screen, but not ProMotion adaptive refresh rate,' they said. Well, a bump up to 120Hz would give that smooth scrolling effect, so this is still definitely a step forward. However, ProMotion has a dynamic refresh rate, meaning the iPhone's battery life can be preserved when there's static content on the display, for instance, and the refresh rate is dialed right down to 1Hz. It's this capability which also enables the always-on display that's such a crowd-pleaser on the iPhone 16 Pro and other Pro models, for instance. ProMotion is also what enables StandBy, where an iPhone being charged in horizontal orientation can show a clock, for instance, overnight. Without ProMotion, even with a 120Hz display, that clock would only show for a few seconds rather than all night long. So, where does that leave us? Cautiously optimistic, I'd say, because other analysts, including the well-regarded Ross Young from of Display Supply Chain Consultants, have previously predicted that ProMotion would come to every iPhone 17 handset. Fixed Focus Digital doesn't have a perfect track record, so there's room to hope.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Yahoo
Here's how the rumored Apple foldable phone could beat Samsung
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The foldable iPhone will reportedly use a different type of screen to Samsung's foldables It will supposedly have an integrated touch sensor, making it thinner and lighter It's also said to offer higher brightness and better color reproduction The long-rumored foldable iPhone will reportedly have a display made by Samsung, yet despite that its screen could actually have Samsung's own foldable phones beat according to a new report. Leaker yeux1122 posting on South Korean blog Naver (via MacRumors), claims that the foldable iPhone will have a new type of screen that we haven't seen on any Samsung Galaxy Z Fold or Samsung Galaxy Z Flip models. Supposedly, this screen will have a touch sensor integrated directly into the display, whereas with Samsung's current foldables the touch sensor is a separate layer placed on top of the foldable screen. Having it integrated into the screen is common on non-foldable phones but is harder to achieve with a foldable. It comes with advantages though, including apparently making this screen around 19% thinner than Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold displays, as well as being lighter. That in turn could help Apple keep the foldable iPhone thin, with previous reports suggesting it could be just 4.5mm thick when unfolded and between 9mm and 9.5mm thick when folded. That won't necessarily make it any slimmer than the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, which is also rumored to be slimming down a lot compared to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6. But interestingly, according to this report Samsung is only making its own upcoming phone thinner because of the work it's doing to meet Apple's display requirements. So, in other words the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 may have a similar screen, but Samsung might not have pursued this if Apple hadn't reportedly required it. The foldable iPhone's display probably won't be identical to whatever the Galaxy Z Fold 7 has though, as Apple will apparently hold branding trademarks for the foldable iPhone's screen, so it may well be even thinner than the Z Fold 7's display. And this new screen isn't just said to be thinner and lighter than Samsung's existing foldable displays, it also apparently has improved peak brightness, normal brightness, and color reproduction. So, this screen could be a real upgrade on the foldable displays we've seen to date. Sadly, we probably won't see it for a while yet, with the foldable iPhone not likely to launch before late 2026. But we may at least see some of these improvements in the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, which is likely to land this July. Apple's foldable iPhone is tipped to beat the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold in two key ways The iPhone 17 could miss out on a long-awaited display upgrade – here's why Apple fans are upset The iPhone 17 Pro looks chunky in the latest leak, but it could still sell better than the sleek iPhone 17 Air
