iPhone 14 Professional Max digicam
The iPhone 15 Professional Max would be the first and solely mannequin with the periscope lens in 2023, based on analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
On Monday, Ming-Chi Kuo supplied numerous claims concerning the first-generation Apple VR and AR headset, with a digicam module producer indicated to learn drastically from the product. In a follow-up Tuesday publish about Cowell, Kuo additionally supplied a element concerning the iPhone 15 Professional Max.
The Medium publish talks concerning the iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max periscope cameras, but additionally mentions the iPhone 15 Professional Max would be the just one to sport the function within the technology.
The remark seemingly goes together with one other leaker’s claims on Might 8, that the periscope lens shall be unique to the Professional Max mannequin.
Periscope lenses use a prism and a collection of lenses to extend the optical zoom capabilities of a tool, with out drastically impacting the thickness. By angling gentle 90 levels, the digicam can present higher zoom ranges with out making an iPhone thicker, for instance.
On the iPhone 16 Professional, Kuo says the show measurement shall be barely bigger than the 6.1-inch iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional fashions, growing inside house and permitting a periscope digicam to be included in each the iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max. This was beforehand raised by one other analyst on Might 9, who thought that the brand new screens might be 6.2 inches and 6.8 inches for the Professional and Max respectively.
Two headset fashions for Gen 2
Kuo additionally touches upon the mixed-reality headset once more, however a future second-generation mannequin that’s anticipated to enter mass manufacturing in 2025. Two variations are touted, with high-end and extra reasonably priced low-end variations anticipated to be produced.
There’s a perception the second-generation fashions shall be significantly extra widespread than the primary, with shipments anticipated to be “round ten instances” that of the primary in 2023.
Discuss of a number of headsets has surfaced up to now, with Apple already considered engaged on the second-gen fashions earlier than the primary’s launch.
Cowell features
Whereas particulars about merchandise are talked about, Kuo’s publish is basically about compact digicam module provider Cowell, and anticipated will increase in income for the corporate.
Kuo discusses how Sharp will seemingly depart the CCM provide chain for the iPhone 16, which can enhance Cowell’s shipments, and that Cowell will seemingly be a CCM provider for the periscope digicam within the iPhone 16.
Cowell will even be an enormous provider for CCMs within the second-gen headsets, Kuo thinks, with an anticipated provide ratio of “no less than 70-80%.”
