We should never take anything for granted with Apple. When it seems that something is confirmed, something appears to deny it or vice versa. Rumors are always a medley of contradictions and although at this point in the year we usually already have a clear outline of the new iPhones, this year it seems to be confirming everything on the fly. In fact, as unrealistic as it may seem, there are features of the iPhone 12 that even Apple does not yet know if it will implement. We will tell you below the last hour about this device.
First photograph of an iPhone 12 Pro Max
We start with an image that is the first real sample of what will be the largest iPhone 12 this year. Or at least a part of it. It has been EveryThingApplePro who has unveiled this photograph for the first time in which it can be seen that it is a PVT device, whose acronym in Spanish would mean that it is a test model and not a final one. In any case, it does not seem that the final model will be different from this.
There is no abysmal difference with what an iPhone 11 Pro Max would be, but if we look a little they become patent. The first are the sides, which are completely flat and with a curvature in the upper corners. A design practically traced to that of the last generation iPad Pro and that does not come as a surprise now considering that it is the rumored design for many months. Also the notch is present and although it is the same size, it is noted that the 6.7-inch screen is larger than the 6.5 of the current ‘Max’, leaving a few millimeters more space at the top.
However, the war between leakers is served. Jon Prosser, who has already anticipated several Apple releases this past year, responded to EveryThingApplePro’s tweet by questioning this image and stating that the edges of his PVT terminal are somewhat more rounded. For this I attach a photograph of the model that he has in his hands and about which he has obtained new information that we will talk about later.
Apple does not give up 120 Hz for the iPhone 12 Pro
Given that the four iPhones this year would bring OLED screens, the main difference between the ‘Pro’ models and the others would be in the ProMotion technology , which is what Apple calls its screens with high refresh rates. At the moment these have only been implemented in the last three generations of iPad Pro, with 120 Hz. Several weeks ago it was stated that the performance tests had not turned out as the company wanted and due to the limited margin of changes that remained to the Californians had decided to give it up.
It had been warning for days that perhaps Apple had managed to solve the problems and now Jon Prosser can confirm this theory with a video in which this technology is observed in operation, as well as the different configuration options that would even allow toggling the 120 Hz with the 60 Hz that we already have in the current iPhone.
In turns with the LiDAR sensor
Design and refresh rate are aspects of the iPad that the iPhone would now inherit, but they are not the only ones. The LiDAR sensor would be the third in contention and never better said, since it is not known either if Apple will finally launch a model that has this sensor. The fact that this technology was not emphasized with the 2020 iPad Pro could be an indication that this is being reserved to be announced with the new phones.
Again Prosser in his video and tweets is the one who reveals the existence of options in the settings that, at least in PVT versions, allow to configure aspects of this sensor. As we can see, it could even serve to improve photographs taken with the iPhone.
He has also claimed that Face ID has improved as well and now works from other angles. Prosser has not specified more in this regard, but it is probably already possible to unlock the phone with the iPhone horizontally as it is already the case with the iPad Pro. This is also a very widespread claim since the company launched this type of technology with its iPhone in 2017 X.
We will continue to await new information and analyze more calmly the meaning of this mega-leak carried out by Jon Prosser and to which other analysts such as EveryThingApplePro have joined. In any case, there is less and less to fully reveal the new terminals. We only need to set a date, since at the moment the company directed by Tim Cook has not given dates for a hypothetical online keynote in which to present their devices (although Prosser says it will be in the week of October 12).
