14 DAY TRIAL // Put your "future" glasses on because KGI Securities' analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, has shared today details on the 2018 iPhone model that Apple plans to unveil this fall.
Ming-Chi Kuo is known to have an almost impeccable record of predictions for Apple's upcoming products, and the first rumors about the 2018 iPhone models that will be launched later this year start today with not one, but three iPhone devices, which the analyst expects to be released in the second half of 2018.
The report (via MacRumors) says that the 2018 iPhone models will come with 5.8-inch and 6.5-inch OLED screens supporting up to 500 PPI, and another variant with a 6.1-inch LCD display offering somewhere between 320 and 330 PPI. The crazy thing about this prediction is that the 6.1-inch iPhone models won't support 3D Touch.
The other two OLED iPhone variants will support 3D Touch, but not the 6.1-inch LCD iPhone. Also, the OLED iPhone devices might feature 4GB RAM, while the 6.1-inch model only 3GB RAM, so we take it that this could be the cheaper iPhone X variant everyone expects as rumors surfaced last week that Apple will discontinue the iPhone X.
"We predict the 6.1" LCD iPhone will differ from the 6.5" and 5.8" OLED models in terms of certain specs, for reasons of cost/price and product segmentation," said Kuo of KGI Securities. "However, this shouldn’t have any effect on key user experience."
Non-stacked logic board for the 6.1-inch LCD iPhone
Kuo also noted the fact that the 6.1-inch iPhone will ship without the L-shaped battery pack and stacked logic board of the iPhone X, which the other OLED models will support. Instead, the 6.1-inch LCD iPhone might come with standard rectangular battery pack and non-stacked logic board, just like the iPhone 8 series.
The analyst revised his prior price projection for the 6.1-inch 2018 iPhone model from $650-$750 to $700-$800, and said that he expects it to account for about half of Apple's new iPhone lineup shipments later this year and the first and second part of 2019. All 2018 iPhone devices will run iOS 12, which Apple will unveil this summer during WWDC 2018.