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Apple's 2027 iPhone lineup is still a bit further away, with as many as 6 different iPhones expected to launch in the interim, including at least one in the form of a foldable.
Even so, the buzz around the 20th anniversary iPhone lineup remains as effervescent as ever, buoyed by the growing number of bells and whistles that the lineup is expected to sport.
Apple's iPhone 20 lineup rumored to get LOFIC camera tech
Apple is likely to skip the number 19 and jump straight to the number 20 for its iPhones launching in 2027. The move is expected to commemorate 20 years since the first iPhone launched all the way back in 2007.
Now, according to a fairly respectable tipster on the Naver blog, called "Yeux1122," the iPhone 20 lineup will sport Lateral Overflow Integration Capacitor (LOFIC) tech within its cameras.
For the benefit of those who might not be aware, a Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) sensor is a chip that converts light into digital images by capturing photons with an array of photosensitive pixels.
LOFIC is a type of CMOS that is much more efficient at capturing and converting incident light rays into digital images.
It does so by capturing both low-light details and bright highlights without noise, resolving the inherent tradeoff between light sensitivity and saturation signal.
This technology works for photos as well as videos. If Apple does end up implementing LOFIC tech, it would be able to expand the iPhone 20 lineup's dynamic range to 20 stops - which measure the difference between the darkest and brightest parts of a scene that a camera can capture in a single image without losing detail - versus the 13 stops for the current iPhones, achieving parity with high-end cinema-quality cameras in the process.
According to Yeux1122, major Chinese smartphone OEMs such as Xiaomi and Huawei are also planning to implement LOFIC tech within their camera stacks.
Worryingly, Samsung currently does not have any visible plan for implementing this tech, which could prove to be a huge disadvantage in its ongoing efforts to permanently replace Sony as Apple's main supplier of camera sensors.
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