Rumor: new iPhone will be thinner touchscreen

The new iPhone will have a thinner touchscreen, because the touch sensors are ge lwa integrated with the color filters. That reports DigiTimes. This would make the phone thinner or is there more space for components.

DigiTimes, which, with its rumors of the plank sometimes, incidentally, quite missed the mark a bit, asserted that to know on the basis of anonymous sources. Sharp and Toshiba, the new touch panels for the iPhone are going to deliver, that in the color filters of the screen.

At this point in time, the touch panels on the top of the color filters, which makes the phone slightly thicker. So-called in-cell touch panels thus save some space, making the new iPhone thinner would be more space for components, for example the battery. The production of the new touch screens would be in the next quarter to start.

Earlier this week, reported Korea IT News that the casing of the new iPhone would be made of a Liquidmetal alloy of aluminum, zirconium, titanium, nickel and copper. Apple has the exclusive use of alloys of the Californian company Liquidmetal in 2010 and purchased for use in phones. A feature of the alloy is that this very ‘smooth’ to the touch and yet is stronger than stainless steel.