March 23 news, online multi-party news broke the news, Apple iPhone 14 series will use a hole-cutting screen design, and exposed a large number of renderings. If nothing else, that should be the final form of this year's iPhone 14 series. Although it finally said goodbye to the bangs, the exclamation point hole was really ugly and difficult to accept.
Today, foreign media TheElec reported that Samsung is developing a new off-screen camera technology for Apple, hoping to hide the entire Face ID module and achieve a true full screen. If this technology can be successful, it will completely bid farewell to bangs and digging holes, ushering in a true full-screen iPhone.
According to the report, Samsung Display is working with Canadian OTI Lumionics to develop the technology, which will use a new cathode mask material for a metal pattern layer. In oled panels, the light emitted by the bottom emitter layer needs to pass through the cathode section, so the cathode section must be made transparent to reach the environment required for off-screen camera technology. OTI Lumionics currently has the technology to make the cathode nearly transparent, greatly improving the light transmittance of oled panels.
Samsung may be the first to use the new off-screen camera technology on the next generation of Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Z Flip 4 before it is finally applied to Apple's iPhone 15 series. Not surprisingly, there are still only two models of iPhone 15 Pro/Max that are expected to use off-screen camera technology, and the iPhone 15 ordinary version should continue the design of the iPhone 14, with a high probability of digging the screen. Therefore, if you want to try the real full-screen iPhone, the threshold is still quite high.
In fact, domestic mobile phone manufacturers have long used under-screen camera technology, such as ZTE, Xiaomi, Motorola, etc., and have launched models equipped with off-screen camera technology. A cursory look at these models does have a relatively good display effect, but the current limitations of camera technology under the screen are relatively large, the screen resolution can only be 1080P, the front camera still has a screen effect, all aspects can not be completely satisfactory, which also leads to the sales of several models are not satisfactory.
Samsung uses off-screen camera technology on the Z Fold 3 folding screen mobile phone, but the strange point is that Samsung still sets an obvious digging hole in the camera to remind everyone of the specific location of the camera, which may also want to improve the imaging quality of the front camera. However, this design has been complained about by users, and many people have said that it is better to use digging holes directly.
If Samsung's new generation of off-screen camera technology can really achieve the desired effect and be adopted by Apple, it means that this technology has really succeeded. Next year, there may be more models equipped with off-screen camera technology on the market, which is worth looking forward to.