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TL;DR
- A Korean outlet has reported that each one iPhone 17 handsets will provide an LTPO display, enabling a excessive refresh price.
- This expertise additionally permits for very low refresh charges, giving customers higher battery life.
- The information comes after earlier rumors that the iPhone 17 lineup will provide excessive refresh price screens.
Apple has restricted excessive refresh price screens to its iPhone Professional fashions since 2021, even supposing even low cost Android telephones provide this performance. We’ve beforehand heard rumors that each one iPhone 17 fashions might seize this characteristic, and now one other supply has corroborated these claims.
ET Information, citing an trade supply, experiences that each one iPhone 17 fashions anticipated to launch subsequent 12 months could have LTPO screens. This display expertise — which allows a excessive refresh price with granular changes — has been restricted to Apple’s Professional fashions since 2021. So it’s sounding extra doubtless that each one iPhone 17 fashions could have a 120Hz refresh price.
A excessive refresh price delivers a smoother expertise on paper, notably when scrolling, viewing system animations, and enjoying video games that help excessive body charges. LTPO screens additionally differ from typical LTPS shows seen on commonplace iPhones by providing a particularly low refresh price, down to only 1Hz in some conditions (e.g. when studying an book or utilizing an always-on show). A decrease refresh price ends in diminished energy consumption, so there are advantages to utilizing LTPO screens even should you don’t care a couple of 120Hz refresh price.
In any occasion, this isn’t the primary time we’ve heard that each one iPhone 17 fashions might provide a excessive refresh price. Korean outlet The Elec and show insider Ross Younger have each beforehand claimed that this characteristic is coming to all iPhone 17 variants.
