In a new note, Ming Chi Kuo predicts the future of the iPhone family of phones. He says the iPhone 14 will be equipped with a 48-megapixel camera, and Apple will say goodbye to mini iPhones in 2022.
Well-known Apple product analyst Ming Chi Kuo has repeatedly made accurate predictions about the company’s future. Now, in a new note, he points to Cupertino’s plans for the next few years. According to GSMArena, the first part of Ming Chi Kuo’s note is related to the Apple iPhone 14 series.
According to the analyst, the iPhone 14 family will include two 6.1-inch models and two 6.7-inch models. This means that Apple will stop producing the 5.4-inch full-screen iPhone from next year. The iPhone 13 Mini is expected to launch this year, albeit in limited numbers. Some time ago, some reports said that Apple was forced to reduce production of the iPhone 12 due to lower demand than expected.
More specifically, Ming Chi Kuo says that in 2022, the two regular iPhone series phones will be equipped with 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch screens, and the two iPhone Pro will be equipped with the same screens, respectively. According to some speculations, both phones are 6.7-inch iPhone 14 2022 Pro model; But Coo does not agree with this claim.
The iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max 2022 are expected to be equipped with the new 48-megapixel camera. This camera can capture 12 megapixel images with 2.5 micrometer pixels by combining pixels. Currently, the main camera of the iPhone 12 series captures 12-megapixel images with 1.7 micron pixels. Ming Chi Kuo predicts iPhone 13 will retain 12-megapixel sensor; But increase the size of the pixels to two micrometers and slightly increase the size of the sensor. In addition, the iPhone 14 series is expected to have a lot to say about 8K video recording.
2023 iPhone 14 Series Pro phones use a camera with periscope magnification. Ming Chi Kuo believes that in 2023, Apple will also move Face ID technology to the bottom of the screen. Apple is expected to reduce the screen cutout by about 10% on the iPhone 13 series. This notch contains Face ID sensors.
Finally, we come to Coo’s claims centered on Apple’s virtual reality headset. The analyst says that the Apple headset may contain up to 15 cameras (internally and externally). With this number of cameras, Apple Virtual Reality Headset can, in addition to eye movements, determine the user’s position in the real world and monitor his physical movements.
Numerous cameras allow the Apple headset to implement a technique known in the industry as Foveated Rendering. Thanks to this technique, the Apple headset can render only the area that the user is looking at, instead of the entire field of view. Not to mention that Apple’s virtual reality headset will probably be available in 2022.
