Barclays: 2019 iPhones to lose 3D Touch, full-screen Touch ID on 2020 models iPhone SE 2 with iPhone 8 hardware in the works

One analyst has made a let on of predictions for the upcoming iPhones calling for the removal of 3D Touch from all 2019 models. He says iPhones released inwards 2020 may adopt acoustic fingerprint sensors behind the whole display expanse which would allow for a full-screen Touch ID feature. And there’s too beak of the iPhone SE successor based on iPhone 8 hardware perchance existence released inwards early on 2020.

Barclays analyst Blayne Curtis lately met amongst suppliers inside Apple’s provide chain to receive to figure out Apple’s side past times side moves. His findings were summarized inwards a regime annotation distribute to clients today, a re-create of which was obtained past times MacRumors.

There’s a lot to accept inwards then let’s teach started

• 2019 iPhones: The trio of high-end 2019 iPhones volition guide maintain relatively few blueprint changes beyond additional nurture photographic tv camera lenses, amongst production fix to ramp upward inwards the typical July-August timeframe.


• 3D Touch removal: 3D Touch volition last eliminated inwards all 2019 iPhones every bit Barclays previously predicted, perchance signaling a Haptic Touch expansion.


• iPhone XR 2: The next-generation iPhone XR volition guide maintain 4GB of RAM, upward from 3GB, every bit previously predicted past times analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.


• 2020 iPhones: 2020 iPhones volition guide maintain to a greater extent than pregnant changes, including 5G support, 3D sensing via the nurture photographic tv camera organisation as well as acoustic fingerprint technology scientific discipline that could allow for full-screen Touch ID.


• iPhone SE 2: “A few suppliers” mentioned a potential second-generation iPhone SE amongst iPhone 8 internals inwards early on 2020, but others had no cognition of it.


• LG OLEDs: LG may teach a secondary supplier of OLED displays for 2019 iPhones, amongst a 10-30 pct split upward of orders amongst Samsung, ahead of Apple transitioning all of its iPhones to OLED every bit early on every bit 2020.

This is but 1 analyst’s reckon on what may or may non transpire.

These predictions are all made based on channel checks as well as Blayne’s discussions amongst about of the companies that provide Apple amongst iPhone components. Of course, suppliers are strictly barred from sharing confidential data but they nonetheless beak to analysts privately.

I’m taking this amongst a grain of tabular array salt until somebody to a greater extent than credible corroborates Barclays’ findings.

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iPhone SE two conceptual renders via Polish designer Hubert Jarechowicz

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