On April 20, according to MacRumors, Tianfeng International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a tweet that the four iPhone 14 series models expected to be launched later this year will be equipped with an upgraded front camera, with autofocus and a larger f/1.9 aperture.
In recent years, Apple's camera hardware has made a lot of progress, the size of the main camera sensor on the iPhone 13 series has been able to catch up with some of the Android flagship main camera, although the ultra-wide angle, telephoto and other secondary camera parts of the upgrade is not large, but there is always an upgrade. However, the front-facing TrueDepth camera module has not changed much, and has not been improved since the iPhone 11 series upgraded 12 million pixels and introduced a larger field of view.
Limited by the internal space of the mobile phone, in addition to placing face ID components on the top of the iPhone, there are various components such as speakers, which are destined to be the sensor size of the front camera cannot be as large as the rear main camera, and to increase the amount of light entering the front, you can only start from the aperture.
Xiao Lei learned that Apple started from the iPhone 6, the front has maintained the aperture of f/2.2, and the new iPhone 14 will upgrade it to f/1.9, which will have a certain improvement in low-light selfies and portrait bokeh. Nowadays, the Android camp can be described as playing a flower in terms of selfies, large sensors, high pixels, autofocus and other configurations do not fall, and some models that focus on selfies are also equipped with front-facing fill lights to strengthen the low-light shooting effect.
It is worth mentioning that a larger aperture means more light intake, which is also useful for future iPhone upgrades under-screen technology.
Autofocus for the iPhone is also a large upgrade, the previous iPhone front does not support autofocus, users want to take a clear selfie, you must click the screen manual focus, it must be inconvenient, especially with the iPhone front to shoot Vlog or video calls, no autofocus is a nightmare.
Of course, the iPhone's selfie function is known as the "mirror", not as comprehensive and meticulous beauty algorithm as Android mobile phones, with iPhone partners will generally use the third-party beauty camera App selfie, will not use their own camera, but the third-party camera selfie clarity is too poor, the effect of the shooting can not be compared with vivo, OPPO and other main selfie models.
If Guo Mingji's prediction comes true, Xiao Lei believes that this wave of upgrades is still very conscientious, and the new front-end technology covers the entire series of iPhone 14. It is said that the iPhone 14 series has increased in price across the board, and it is difficult to say whether the front-end upgrade can stimulate consumers' desire to change the machine, and it is only hoped that the price increase will not be too large.