iPhone 17 — Apple’s rumoured smartphone that’s anticipated to arrive in 2025 — might be outfitted with an upgraded show that brings two new enhancements over earlier fashions, in accordance to a tipster. According to particulars shared by a leaker on the Chinese microblogging service Weibo, the iPhone 17 might sport a display that’s much less reflective and extra scratch resistant. Earlier this 12 months, South Korean smartphone maker Samsung introduced the launch of the Galaxy S24 Ultra with a Corning Gorilla Glass Armor display that provides the identical performance.
Tipster Instant Digital (translated from Chinese) acknowledged in a Weibo publish that Apple has bought coating tools that’s making its manner to the iPhone provide chain in China, however not in time for the manufacturing of the purported iPhone 16 collection forward of its anticipated launch in the second half of 2024. Instead, the person claims that it’s the iPhone 17 collection that may supply these improved show options.
The rumoured iPhone 17 shall be outfitted with a show that has a “super hard” anti-reflective layer, in accordance to the leaker. The firm’s Ceramic Shield glass expertise that’s claimed to supply improved drop safety can also be tipped to obtain an improve, providing improved scratch resistance in contrast to earlier fashions.
This anti-reflective show expertise sounds comparable to the one used on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, the firm’s top-of-the-line smartphone mannequin that was unveiled earlier this 12 months. The Galaxy S24 Ultra is supplied with Corning’s Gorilla Glass Armor safety, that’s claimed to supply improved scratch safety and reduces reflections extra successfully in contrast to different smartphone panels.
If the tipster’s claims are true, the iPhone 17 might supply improved visibility in brilliant lighting and supply improved scratch resistance in contrast to earlier iPhone fashions. However, it is usually price noting that the purported iPhone 17 lineup is greater than a 12 months and a half away, and there are at the moment no different particulars associated to the handset’s display specs. More particulars about the iPhone 17 are anticipated to floor on-line in the coming months.