On December 24, South Korean media The Elec said that the iPhone 14 Pro/Pro Max will use the digging screen provided by Samsung and LG. The news that the iPhone 14 Pro series abandoned the bangs and adopted the digging design spread around March this year, and although the major media continued to report, Xiao Lei still felt that it was not credible.
Today, when flagship mobile phones generally use AMOLED screens, mainstream manufacturers seem to have only iPhones that still do not support screen fingerprint unlocking. Many iPhone users around Xiao Lei believe that it is enough to have 3D structured light, and the unlocking speed is faster than the screen fingerprint. Of course, it is not that face unlocking must use 3D structured light, the mobile phone industry insists on using 3D face recognition solutions only Apple 3D structured light and Huawei TOF, and most of the equipment of other manufacturers is cameras.
However, if we look at Huawei's strategy, the main Mate series that adopts the TOF unlocking scheme is the Mate series. From the perspective of Mate 30 and Mate 40, Huawei's positioning distinction is that the standard version uses camera face recognition, and the Pro version uses TOF unlocking scheme. Although the screen ratio and appearance of the high-end version may be reduced, the experience improvement brought by it is real.
In the news of these media, Apple is the opposite of Huawei, the low-end version uses 3D structured light, and the high-end version uses a camera. Is it really worth giving up 3D face recognition for a screen ratio? According to Apple's consistent style, it has always been an important configuration that they think is important, and it will definitely give a high-end version.
In addition, after entering the era of full screen, the change of mobile phone design is lackluster. Judging from the performance of iPhones and Android phones, it is nothing more than the size of the hole in the front, and the layout of the back camera, which is really not ok to add a second screen. The design of the iPhone is still not outdated, and it should be no problem to use it for a few years, and it is not a big deal to change the layout of the rear camera.
Considering it comprehensively, Xiao Lei believes that the rumors of the iPhone 14 Pro/Pro Max using the digging design are not credible, unless Apple can do the 3D structured light under the screen, but the 3D structured light is done under the screen, why not put the camera together to do it under the screen. As for the rumor that the iPhone 15 series will use the off-screen camera, if Apple still can't achieve off-screen 3D structured light at that time, this point is not very credible.