Apple is expected to bring a camera under the display in the future iPhones. This means that there won’t be cutouts on the display to house the selfie camera.
The front camera on the latest iPhone 15 series, which was made official in September, is placed inside Dynamic Island.
Apple Working on Under Panel Camera
For now, LG Innotek is developing the Under Panel Camera (UPC) technology for iPhones. The company has already reportedly filed a patent for a special lens called the ‘Freeform Optic’ (translated from Korean). In addition, terms such as ‘Optical system, camera module and mobile terminal’, ‘Optical module ‘, ‘Optical Module’, etc (translated from Korean) have been patented as well.
An under-display camera module could result in 20 per cent less brightness, which could lead to lower-quality images when compared to existing iPhone cameras. The UPC technology is said to be under development and the goal is to increase the transmission of light by 40 percent after 2024.
Earlier, Apple today that it plans to add support for RCS in iMessage starting in 2024, however the decision is likely not to do with pressure from Google, but with legal disputes with the European Union.
With Apple’s adoption of RCS, one might assume that the green bubble versus blue bubble dilemma would end, but that is not certain, as Apple plans to support the universal GSMA profile, but would not use any proprietary extension that adds the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on RCS, like Google’s version of RCS.
A Google spokesperson responded to the announcement by saying that the company is happy to see Apple take the first step to join Google in adopting the RCS standard, adding that it looks forward to working with Apple to implement it on iOS.
