From The Verge: This year’s successor to the 5.8-inch iPhone XS could have a 6.1-inch screen and three cameras on its rear, a new report from Macotakara claims (via 9to5Mac). The increase would bring the size of the phone’s OLED screen in line with this year’s cheaper iPhone XR, which has an LCD display. The report also claims that the phones will continue to use a Lightning connector, but they will include a USB-C to Lightning cable and 18W fast charger in the box for the first time.
Although multiple rumors and leaked photos claim that this year’s iPhones will include Apple’s first triple rear cameras, they’ve differed on which phones in the lineup will have them. The Wall Street Journal and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo have both suggested that the new camera would be exclusive to the successor of the iPhone XS Max once again sporting a 6.5-inch OLED. However, while Macotakara previously suggested that some models of the new iPhone XS could come with three cameras, it claimed this would be exclusive to higher storage capacity models.
Reports also differ on what this third rear camera could be used for. Initially, the suggestion was that it would be a 3D camera meant for depth-sensing, but a further report from Bloomberg claims that Apple has since pushed back its plans for this camera, which is now due to debut on an iPad Pro model that will be released in 2020. Instead, Bloomberg claims that in 2019, this third camera will be used to offer a wider range of zoom and a larger field of view.
Along with changes in screen size, Macotakara’s new report also claims that the 6.1-inch and 6.5-inch OLED phones will be thicker than last year’s iPhone XS and XS Max, although only by fractions of a millimeter. This rumor isn’t especially notable, but it appears to corroborate a separate report from Ming-Chi Kuo that claimed that all of Apple’s 2019 handsets will feature bigger batteries along with support for bidirectional wireless charging.
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