iPhone 19e Could Feature 120Hz ProMotion Display

Apple's iPhone 19e could travel with an LTPO OLED show that would bring 120Hz ProMotion exertion to its astir affordable iPhone for the archetypal time, based connected a caller study retired of Asia.


According to ZDNet Korea, the fourth-generation exemplary successful Apple's entry-level e-series – expected to get successful aboriginal 2028 – could follow a low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) panel, making the show technically susceptible of dynamically adjusting its refresh complaint betwixt 1Hz and 120Hz. It's the aforesaid underlying sheet exertion utilized crossed the existent iPhone 17 lineup and the iPhone Air.

The precocious launched iPhone 17e uses a 60Hz low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) TFT panel, and the study suggests adjacent year's iPhone 18e volition usage the aforesaid technology. That's contempt the information that you tin find 120Hz screens connected competing Android phones astatine akin terms points.

The displacement successful 2028 is said to beryllium successful portion connected Apple's improvement of a next-generation "LTPO+" show technology, which incorporates oxide semiconductors successful some switching and thrust transistors, and is said to usage a batch little artillery power.

Apple reportedly plans to reserve LTPO+ for its higher-end models successful 2028, including caller versions of the iPhone Air and its upcoming foldable iPhone, which would escaped up modular LTPO panels for the remainder of the lineup. But if the caller exertion isn't acceptable successful time, it could hold the trickle-down of LPTO panels to the 19e, truthful nothing's for definite yet.

Apple archetypal adopted LPTO+ (also known arsenic LPTO3) successful the Apple Watch Series 10 successful 2024, with panels supplied by LG Display. This apt gave Apple the assurance to standard the exertion to iPhone-sized displays, and the institution has a way grounds of investigating caller show technologies successful the Apple Watch earlier bringing them to the iPhone.

A erstwhile study suggested Apple was considering adopting the caller show architecture for at slightest 1 exemplary successful its 2027 iPhone lineup, but the ZDNet Korea study suggests Apple has moved distant from the thought due to the fact that the exertion is not rather acceptable for wide production.
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