New 2019 iPhone details: 120FPS slo-mo video selfies, revamped Taptic Engine code-named “Leap Haptics”

Taptic Engine, Apple’s marketing mention for a custom vibration motor that delivers unique together with subtle vibration patterns, should undergo a redesign because the iPhone models coming downward the freeway this twelvemonth are expected to send without 3D Touch.

A written report past times 9to5Mac doesn’t become far clear if a revamped Taptic Engine would brand its agency into novel iPhones or other devices every bit well. For context, the Taptic Engine motor besides provides tactile sensations inward the shape of racket to users of Apple Watch, Mac notebooks together with Magic Trackpad 2.

Other details from the report:

According to people who’ve seen the devices, all iii iPhone xi models volition nevertheless characteristic a Lightning port, opposite to to a greater extent than or less speculation that they would last moving to USB-C after the alter on iPad Pro end year.

The ‘iPhone 11’ models are known every bit D42 (iPhone12,3) which volition supervene upon the iPhone XS; D43 (iPhone12,5) which volition supervene upon the iPhone XS Max; together with N104 (iPhone12,1) which volition supervene upon the iPhone XR. D42 together with D43 volition choose a 3x OLED Retina display, spell N104 volition nevertheless characteristic the 2x Liquid Retina display merely similar the electrical flow generation. All iii iPhones volition characteristic the same concealment resolution every bit their predecessors.

Aside from a reworked Taptic Engine, a trio of novel Apple smartphones coming inward September should convey slow-motion video capture at 120 frames per minute to the front-facing camera, making possible super-smooth video selfies at 4 times the frames than currently.

These handsets should boost your selfie game with an upgraded front end photographic television set camera sensor, going from the electrical flow seven-megapixel module to a twelve-megapixel selfie sensor, reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said inward April. For what it’s worth, Indian website CompareRaja reported inward January that the adjacent iPhones would characteristic a ten-megapixel front end photographic television set camera together with a fourteen-megapixel raise setup.

TUTORIAL: How to conform tally duration for 3D Touch

As for a redesigned Taptic Engine, that chip doesn’t come upward every bit a surprise. We already saw expanded purpose of Haptic Touch inward iOS 13, which is Apple’s marketing mention for a tap-and-hold + haptic feedback combo on non-3D Touch devices. Apple besides raised eye-browse past times releasing an iPhone without 3D Touch end year, the XR. Prior to that, the companionship was caught removing 3D Touch features from iOS solely to convey them dorsum a few updates later.

Taptic Engine was refreshed for iPhone 7 ii years agone amongst a make of agency subtler vibration patterns than before. Apple besides released a Taptic Engine API together with then developers could implement custom tactile sensations inward their ain apps.

According to Barclays, Apple could displace to a fullscreen Touch ID sensor inward 2020 iPhones.

Share this post