According to AppleInsider, a note from TF International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo to clients reveals that another manufacturing problem is affecting some of the phones in the Apple iPhone 12 family. Back in June, we told you that supplier of OLED panel Beijing Oriental Electronics (BOE) failed tests performed by Apple and Samsung. That may have been the reason why Apple decided to order five times the number of OLED panels from LG Display than it bought from the supplier last year. LG Display will supply 20 million screens for the entire iPhone 12 series this year compared to Samsung’s expected 60 million.
No delay was seen in the launch of the iPhone 12 due to a manufacturer issue
The latest manufacturing problem includes cracks found on the camera coating for the wide angle camera lenses made for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Max. These are manufactured by Genius Electronic Optical. The problem appeared after testing in high temperature and high humidity tests and Kuo does not see these cracks that force Apple to delay the launch of the 5G 2020 iPhone 12 models, because Genius Electronic Optical is not the only source of the parts is. The analyst notes that Largan already supplies the same parts from Apple and that it does not have the same problem with its product.
The release of Apple iPhone 12 will be a few weeks late according to Apple
Although Kuo could not guess how long it might take Genius Electronic Optical to solve the problem, he expects the supplier to cut his price to Apple to continue sending the part to the issue to the tech giant . The same company is thought to be working with Apple to develop a periscope lens to give some of the 2022 iPhone 14 models a much improved telephoto experience. The currently available iPhone 11 Pro en iPhone 11 Pro Max are equipped with a telephoto lens that provides 2x optical zoom. Apple is likely to go for 3x optical zoom this year iPhone 12 Pro model.
Apple itself has said that the release of the 2020 iPhones will be delayed a few weeks, which means we could see Apple’s first 5G handsets in stores sometime in October or November. Apple’s supply chain ran at less than full speed earlier this year when the coronavirus spread throughout Asia. Thus, the delay announced by Apple Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri has nothing to do with the cracks on the camera coating and has a lot to do with the global pandemic.
We expect to see Apple unveil four new iPhones this year, all with support for both sub-6GHz and mmWave 5G signals. The phones will be powered by the A14 Bionic chipset produced by TSMC with the 5nm process node. The chip will have 15 billion transistors inside that are shoehorned. The 5.4-inch iPhone 12 and the 6.1-inch iPhone 12 Max will both come with 4GB of memory, while the 6.1-inch iPhone 12 Pro and the 6.7-inch iPhone 12 Pro Max will each have 6GB of memory. will sport. The base models are expected to start with 128 GB of storage and up. The new phones also return to the popular flat-sided design that Apple originally used with the iPhone 4, iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, en iPhone 5s series.
The latest rumored specs ask the non-Pro models to have Wide and Ultra-Wide cameras on the back, while the Pro models add a telephoto camera. There have been some questions about whether Apple will equip the entire iPhone 12 housing or just the more expensive Pro units with the LiDAR depth sensor. First found on the 2020 iPad Pro, this is a Time-of-Flight sensor that measures the time it takes for infrared to take off from a subject and return to the phone. With this data, more accurate depth calculations can be made allowing more improved bokeh blurs for portraits, and improved AR capabilities for the phone.
