Show analyst Ross Younger stated again in September that your entire iPhone 17 line-up would be getting ProMotion displays, a function at the moment unique to the 2 Professional fashions. That is now backed by a brand new supply-chain report over the weekend.
The newest report is rather less particular, referring solely to “a excessive refresh charge,” but it surely does suggest that non-Professional fashions will get each ProMotion advantages for the primary time …
The refresh charge of a show measures the variety of instances per second the display is redrawn, or refreshed, and is expressed as a Hz studying. Non-Professional iPhone fashions have 60Hz shows, which means they’re refreshed 60 instances per second.
A lot of at present’s shows supply larger refresh charges, however the extra refined method is variable refresh-rate shows, which might cut back or improve the variety of display updates to go well with the content material. That is made potential by a sort of OLED know-how referred to as LTPO (low-temperature polycrystalline oxide).
Apple makes use of the identify ProMotion for its variable refresh-rate shows, which might go as excessive as 120Hz and as little as 1Hz. This provides three advantages:
- 120Hz doubles the frame-rate of video games and related content material, for better responsiveness
- In-between refresh charges preserve battery energy when fewer updates are wanted
- 1Hz permits the always-on show, as this charge consumes nearly no energy
Reportedly coming to all iPhone 17 fashions
Ross Young reported that LTPO shows are coming to all iPhone 17 fashions subsequent yr, which suggests each the bottom mannequin and iPhone 17 Air will get the brand new function.
Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station – who beforehand posted correct leaks in regards to the telephoto lens coming to the iPhone 16 Professional and the bigger sensor measurement in the principle digicam this yr – has now echoed this, from their very own supply-chain sources.
Judging from the availability chain supplies, the usual model of the iPhone 17 sequence is more likely to have a excessive refresh charge.
This will surely be a well timed replace, as variable refresh charge is already generally discovered on Android smartphones priced beneath the bottom mannequin iPhones.
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