iPhone 20 series tipped to launch with under-display camera tech from LG across the board

Apple touts its new Dynamic Island as the best way for selfie cameras to peep out though a mobile device's display. Then again, according to the latest tips from industry insiders, the Cupertino giant will whittle it down over the next few generations of the iPhone until it is eventually disappears altogether by about 2027.

The twist, of course, is that the technology involved will have been available in the Android world for nearly 10 years by then, courtesy of trailblazers like the RedMagic 7 Pro and ZTE Axon 20 5G. Then again, it seems Apple is willing to wait until the requisite under-display camera (UDC) screens have been perfected by LG.

Currently, the South Korean giant is working on the better-known issues with such displays, which, as we know thanks to ZTE's efforts with the Axon and RedMagic lines (not to mention Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold4) chiefly consist of the potentially hazy and indistinct quality of the actual selfies taken.

LG might counter this issue with new "free-form" technology (i.e. lenses so well curved that they compensate for light lost through a pixel matrix) hidden under its new display type. However, the resulting UDC panel might not be ready until 2027 at the earliest.

Accordingly, the first-gen UDC iPhone might be the 19 Pro, in line with Ross Young's Apple display evolution timeline predictions. The technology is thought to be all of 4 generations away as the same device might also have to support the under-display Face ID tipped to debut with the 18 Pro.

Accordingly, vanilla iPhone users might be left in hopes that Apple ports the same new, edge-to-edge display to the entire 20 series the following year.

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