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(1.) LG Innotek emerged as the winner, with news that Apple's iPhone 16 Pro also comes with a quadruple reflective prism. According to South Korean media The Elec, Apple plans to introduce a quadruple reflective prism design in the iPhone 16 Pro models launched next year, and LG Innotek will become a big winner in Apple's supply chain. Currently, quadruple reflective prisms are mainly supplied by LG Innotek and Jahwa Electronics, with the former accounting for 60-70% and the latter accounting for 30-40%. During Apple's mass production of the iPhone 15 Pro Max this year, it judged that LG Innotek has a higher yield and the quadruple reflective prism produced is more stable than that of Jahwa Electronics, so Apple will increase the proportion of orders for LG Innotek next year. According to the report, Apple relies more on LG Innotek, but in order to meet the replacement of iPhone 16 and subsequent products, Jahwa Electronics is required to increase production capacity. Jahwa invested 191 billion won ($146 million) in new facilities from April last year to March this year, according to public data.
(2.) Say goodbye to the mute paddle, the news says that the Apple iPhone 16 comes standard with an operation button. According to the report, Apple began to design and plan the operation button as early as 2021, and in Apple's plan, it plans to launch the haptic volume and power button simultaneously.
In the iPhone 16 series, which will be launched next year, Apple plans to change the action buttons from mechanical buttons to capacitive buttons, and expand them to provide more features. Apple's internal improvement action button project, codenamed "Atlas," is similar in character to the Touch ID Home button on older iPhone models, or the Force Touch trackpad on newer MacBooks. Disclosed internal documents show that the updated action buttons will be equipped with "force sensors" that can achieve different interactive functions by detecting different pressures, but it is not yet clear what will happen. The source also confirmed that the design and prototype of Apple's iPhone 16 base model are equipped with action buttons, indicating that all models will come standard next year. Apple has also experimented with different sizes of action buttons, with some prototypes having larger action buttons than currently on the iPhone 15 Pro and closer in size to the volume buttons.
(3.) Redmi K70 mobile phone release: equipped with the second-generation Snapdragon 8 processor, starting at 2499 yuan. At the Redmi 10th anniversary and K70 series mobile phone new product launch conference this evening, the Redmi K70 series of new phones was officially released, this article mainly introduces the standard version of the model, the machine is positioned as a "new benchmark for a new generation of flagship performance", the price starts at 2499 yuan: click here to view. In terms of appearance, Redmi K70 claims to have the same texture as Pro, with a four-curved and other deep body, velvet glass texture, and matte metal middle frame, providing four colors: Bamboo Moon Blue, Light Eggplant Purple, Clear Snow, and Ink Feather. In terms of performance, Redmi K70 is equipped with the second-generation Snapdragon 8, with a comprehensive score of over 1.71 million, supplemented by LPDDR5X memory, UFS 4.0 flash memory, and support for furious engine 3.0 and 5000mm² annular cold pump VC liquid cooling.
Redmi K70 has the same screen, image, and charging configuration as the Pro version, specifically, the machine uses a 6.67-inch 3200×1400 Huaxing Optoelectronics C8 OLED flexible vertical screen, manual maximum brightness of 700nit, full-screen excitation 1200nit, local peak brightness of 4000nit, support 120Hz refresh rate, 480Hz touch sampling rate (instantaneous 2160Hz), 3840Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, 12bit color depth, JNCD ≈ 0.35；
In terms of image, the camera has a front 16MP (OmniVision OV16A1Q), a rear 50MP main camera (Light and Shadow Hunter 800, 1/1.55", OIS) + 8MP ultra-wide angle (OmniVision OV08D10) + 2MP macro (Smartway SC202PCS) triple camera, and in terms of battery life, Redmi K70 is equipped with a 5000mAh battery, supports 120W fast charging, and is equipped with a self-developed fast charging chip surging P2 + self-developed power management chip surging G1.
In other aspects, the device supports NFC, infrared remote control, on-screen optical fingerprint, 0809 X-axis linear motor, equipped with 1012+1216 stereo dual speakers, passed dual Hi-Res certification, and is equipped with Xiaomi surging OS system.
