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Apple testing new ‘Touch on Display’ technology for next-gen iPhone – report

Thursday, January 3, 2013 · 4:25 pm · 26 Comments

“According to a rumor from The China Times, Apple is planning to adopt new touch panels with ‘Touch on Display’ technology for the next iteration of the iPhone,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors. “The panels, which have been developed by Apple supplier Innolux, are said to be in testing at the moment.”

The “Touch on Display “panels “are said to be thin and tough, with a thickness of 0.5mm and improved optical performance and sensitivity,” Clover reports. “The new display would presumably be used in Apple’s iPhone 5S, which could be entering production as early as the first quarter of 2013.”

Read more in the full article here.

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Tags: Innolux, iphone, iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, Touch on Display

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26 Comments

sdfg

Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 4:33 pm · Reply

In other news, humans continue to evolve. It’s rumoured that elevators are going to get slightly faster next year with an improved laminate coating on the outside. This cuts down on wind resistance thereby enabling elevators to go faster.
- radtech5000
  
  Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 4:58 pm · Reply
  
  No kidding. LoL
  However on the same note many people still don’t believe in evolution, as crazy as that may sound in 2013. ;p
  - ploth
    
    Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 5:48 pm · Reply
    
    Maybe because there’s no actual evidence of (macro) evolution ever occurring, but plenty to show it will and has never.
    
    Phones / elevators getting better is evidence of someone designing and manufacturing something better – not of ‘evolution’.
    
    Amazing what people will believe without any evidence in 2013!
    - radtech5000
      
      Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 5:51 pm · Reply
      
      There’s plenty of evidence scientifically for those who open their eyes but most people who are religious close minded fail to see the simple facts, my point stands.
      - ploth
        
        Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 9:10 pm · Reply
        
        Really? Such as? I’ve searching for some.
        
        SimpleReally
        
        Friday, January 4, 2013 - 9:33 am · Reply
        
        Take a class… any biology class at any university anywhere in the world. They will provide you with all of the evidence and proof you need for macro evolution. If you choose not to study, learn, or educate yourself, then you choose to live in willful ignorance.
        
        ploth
        
        Friday, January 4, 2013 - 6:10 pm · Reply
        
        Yes – look at the actual findings and research, not the text books. The findings make assumptions and are often quickly proved wrong. The text books report is as fact. Check it out for yourself…
        
        Road Warrior
        
        Friday, January 4, 2013 - 10:31 am · Reply
        
        The best evidence I have seen for evolution was from a bacteria that could survive, and only survive on a human made (artificial) compound as it’s sole carbon source. Of course that does not make it a new species but I consider this very relevant, along with all the other circumstantial evidence.
        
        To a degree I consider that the Bible can provide some guidance. There is no “Reproduction vs. Creationism” argument because, according to the Bible “man” Adam and Eve were created by divine intervention (creationism) and I think most people know that individuals can be “created” via sexual reproduction.
        
        So there is a precedent. If there are two ways to create an individual (divine intervention) AND human reproduction then there might be two ways to create a new species, through divine intervention AND evolution.
        
        ploth
        
        Friday, January 4, 2013 - 6:17 pm · Reply
        
        God creating man who can reproduce is a precedent for evolution? Wow that’s a new one – I just can’t there.
        
        If I create something with the ability to reproduce itself, I don’t see how that somehow means it can change into something else. It has been created / designed to do something and so it does.
        
        Surely if you believe the Creation account you would also believe the words that say they reproduce in their own kind?
        
        Eddie
        
        Friday, January 4, 2013 - 10:34 pm ·
        
        I’m religious and I believe in both. God created Adam and Eve. When they fucked up in the garden of Eden, he turned them into monkeys and they had to evolve on their own. You can’t prove it right. You can’t prove it wrong.
    - Rorschach
      
      Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 7:41 pm · Reply
      
      Really? Never looked at the Galápagos Islands? Darwin was much smarter than you are, obviously.
      I guess you’re one of those creationist halfwits.
      - ploth
        
        Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 9:09 pm · Reply
        
        Lol research it and see. At the time Darwin thought he had found evidence but yet again time and further investigation showed otherwise.
        
        No point bringing Creationism, look at the assumptions / actual evidence for evolution alone.
        
        Alex McKenna
        
        Friday, January 4, 2013 - 8:27 am · Reply
        
        You’d have made a terrible Miss Marple, ignoring so many obvious clues
        
        ploth
        
        Friday, January 4, 2013 - 6:20 pm · Reply
        
        Like?
        All clues I thought people had found turned out to be false…and the facts support that it has never happened…
    - qka
      
      Friday, January 4, 2013 - 2:13 pm · Reply
      
      @ploth
      
      May you have the good fortune to never get a antibiotic resistant bacterial infection. Such so-called “super bugs” are very much the result of evolution.
      - ploth
        
        Friday, January 4, 2013 - 6:23 pm · Reply
        
        Really? I thought this was an adaptation of bacteria to resist (certain types of) antibiotic?
  - Jimmy
    
    Friday, January 4, 2013 - 2:14 am · Reply
    
    Got a flu bug? Well u won’t get it again.. Your body adapts …evolution
    - ploth
      
      Friday, January 4, 2013 - 3:27 am · Reply
      
      Yes Jimmy this is what most people believe…the body was created with the ability to learn and adapt to different conditions – this is not evolution.
      
      Different types of dog etc are micro evolution – nothing new in their DNA only a loss. This is ‘evolution’ within a species and is amazing.
      
      But evolution from one species to another is macro evolution. So far research shows the DNA has a checking mechanism to ensure this cant happen…and if it does it is corrected. Any mutation causes a species a problem not an advance too. Fascinating stuff when you dig into it
      - Blip
        
        Saturday, January 5, 2013 - 7:47 am · Reply
        
        Wow are you clueless. “Only a loss?”
        
        Hey bloodhounds have a much keener sense of smell than a chihuahua. How did that happen? How did bloodhounds get bred to have many times the olfactory nerves than other dogs and a bigger region of their brains dedicated to processing signals from those nerves?
        
        Ever think why you think believing in evolution is somehow contrary to believing in God? Here’s a clue. Someone told you so, and you chose to believe it. It’s not anything that based in fact.
        
        It’s funny how people who believe in an omnipotent God believe such a mind is incapable of creating the universe that operates on fundamental laws of physics, where following the laws of physics eventually leads to the creation of all elements then stars followered by planets followed by organic molecules followed by life. Yet by claiming evolution is impossible be used you believe the universe was made, you actually promote the idea God must not be omnipotent. Because life evolving through evolution like he nose of a bloodhound is impossible because some idiot told you so.
ken1w

Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 4:56 pm · Reply

Wow! Because previous iPhones did not have “Touch on Display” technology?

Also rumored, the next iPhone is supposed to have “Talk into Microphone” technology…
- tbone
  
  Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 5:12 pm · Reply
  
  You guys are just making this shit up, aren’t you. Talk into a microphone, indeed.
- Bizlaw
  
  Friday, January 4, 2013 - 12:12 pm · Reply
  
  No, they didn’t. The display and touch receptors were different layers, not integrated together, this making the entire display much thicker than 0.5 mm.
  - ken1w
    
    Friday, January 4, 2013 - 3:10 pm · Reply
    
    Take it easy. I was making fun of the silly name.
Laughing_Boy48

Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 5:51 pm · Reply

What iPhone 5S? I thought they’d already seen an iPhone 6 being used on some networks.
- Rorschach
  
  Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 7:45 pm · Reply
  
  No reason why not. The 5S will be an interim version with a few significant upgrades, just like the 3Gs and the 4S, but Apple obviously will already have basic technological ideas for the next full upgrade, like processors, GUI, etc, which they’ll need to be developing in parallel with whatever Ive has up his sleeve design-wise.
  This isn’t rocket science, it’s what Apple do every year!
derss

Friday, January 4, 2013 - 11:54 am · Reply

Blatant nonsense. There are no any significant issues with iPhone 5 touch sensitivity, so there is no way Apple is going back to use separate touch sensor.