iPhone 17 Slim to feature a new kind of OLED display | Infinium-tech

With declining sales of the iPhone Plus over the past few years, Apple is looking to replace the Plus lineup with something more exciting. Or at least that’s according to this year’s rumors. Enter the iPhone 17 Slim, a new iPhone lineup that is rumored to be even more expensive than the Pro Max series.

New information is coming from digitimes There are suggestions that the upcoming iPhone 17 Slim will feature a new type of OLED display that could allow for extremely thin construction. A lesser-known Taiwanese brand, Novatek, recently introduced a new TDDI OLED panel that combines the touch sensor layer and display driver into a single unit. That’s why it’s called TDDI, which stands for Touch and Display Driver Integration.

This may not seem like a groundbreaking technology, but it could prove vital to reducing smartphone thickness by a few millimeters.

DigiTimes believes Apple will use Novatek as a supplier of OLED panels for its iPhone 17 Slim next year, although there is no clear confirmation of the partnership. In fact, the news outlet speculates that Apple may be testing the new technology on other devices before introducing it to its iPhone lineup. For example, Apple Watches or iPads may get TDDI OLEDs before iPhones.

Keep in mind that the rumors are still hot, so Slim could have a completely different ending and even have a completely different marketing name. For example, a July leak suggested that the handset would have just one camera on the back, which doesn’t seem plausible given the rumored price.

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