Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities is back again with a trio of new investor notes that offers new light on the upcoming iPhones; the iPhone X, X Plus, and an entry-level 6.1-inch iPhone. The Analyst previously stated that Apple likely to introduce two new iPhones with OLED panels and an iPhone with an LCD display.
Starting off with the entry-level iPhone, it is said to sports a 6.1-inch FHD+ 18:9 LCD display with ultra-slim bezels. Kuo predicts that it will pack a 2,850 to 2,950mAh rectangular shape battery that is nearly 8.5 percent larger than current iPhone X. Taiwanese manufacturers; Pegatron, Foxconn, and Wistron will be the key assemblers of the 6.1-inch iPhone, with 60 percent, 30 percent, and 10 percent allocation of EMS respectively.
It is already known that Japan Display will supply around 70 percent of LCD“Full Active” LCD technology panels for the 6.1-inch iPhone that only require ultra-slim 0.5mm bezels on all four sides. It looks like the 6.1-inch iPhone is shaping up to become a low-cost iPhone X with an aluminum frame, lack of 3D Touch, single rear camera, and 3GB of RAM.
Perhaps this is the first time we hear more details about the 6.5-inch iPhone and second-gen iPhone X. According to Kuo, the 6.5-inch iPhone, dubbed iPhone X Plus and the second-gen iPhone X with 5.8-inch OLED display will each have 4GB RAM and a larger battery capacity of 3,300-3,400 and 2,700 to 2,800mAh respectively. The battery design will likely have L-shaped on both the iPhones.
Apple in order to place the 6.1-inch iPhone in entry-level iPhone segment, it ditching the 3D touch, dual rear cameras. But it will feature the top notch, face ID. Kuo states that there won’t be any upgrades in the TrueDepth camera until 2019, but expects that the 2018 iPhones to sell well, especially the 6.1-inch iPhone.