The launch of the new iPhone terminal is far away, but rumors are starting to appear regarding the components of the future device. If last night I found out that the launch it could be "postponed" due to the production problems of the new baseband chip, today we find out that Apple could use new touch panels in its iPhone. These new panels, named in-cell, are thinner than those currently used in iPhone terminals and would allow the company to reduce the thickness of the device, a very important thing for mobile phones.
Apple's new iPhone, which is expected to be released in the third quarter of 2012, is likely to adopt in-cell touch panels rolled out by Sharp and Toshiba Mobile Display (TMD), according to sources in Apple's supply chain. An improvement in yield rates of the in-cell touch panels at Sharp and TMD has persuaded Apple to choose to cooperate with Japan-based panel makers, the sources noted.
The in-cell technology involves the introduction of touch sensors directly in the color filters of the screens and not on top of them, as the current panels are built, and Apple could give up its traditional partners to implement this technology. The difference in dimensions of the touch screen cannot be extremely large, but combined with other changes in the internal structure could lead to a 1/2 millimeter decrease in the thickness of the iPhone. Of course, the implementation of new technologies involves the risk of producing a large number of defective terminals, but Apple has the habit of quickly changing any terminals with problems.
