An Apple roadmap detailing large product bulletins and have upgrades has been produced by Samsung, and has been leaked to X/Twitter by tipster Revegnus for us all to see.
The roadmap comes from Samsung Securities, the a part of the big South Korean conglomerate answerable for its monetary providers enterprise. Subsequently, as you would possibly anticipate, it is in its greatest pursuits to have an concept of what the world’s largest tech firm is as much as. A number of of those claims we have already heard about — however Samsung’s evaluation simply provides extra weight to those rumors.
Replace March 19: The Korean information outlet Alpha Enterprise says that the primary foldable iPhone will launch in early 2027.
Apple’s subsequent product roadmapSource: Samsung securities pic.twitter.com/n3TT7W9vqEMarch 16, 2024
The roadmap begins in 2023, which maybe means this can be a little outdated, or simply that the creators needed to get some simple wins off the bat. It references the iPhone 15 Professional’s 8GB RAM improve, the iPhone 15 Professional Max’s 5x periscope zoom improve and its titanium physique. It additionally factors to the Imaginative and prescient Professional, discussing its twin M2/R1 chipsets, microLED shows and eye-tracking cameras.
Imaginative and prescient Professional then tops the listing of 2024 releases, bringing us as much as the current day. Samsung Securities goes on to say this yr we’ll see 11-inch and 13-inch iPads with OLED shows, (rumored to be iPad Professional OLED fashions particularly), and bigger shows and 5x periscope cameras for each the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max fashions. There isn’t any point out of the usual iPhone 16 although, maybe that means it expects solely restricted upgrades once more for the essential new iPhone.
Apple in 2025: iPhone SE 4
Transferring to subsequent yr, when the iPhone SE 4 will apparently flip up with a 6.1-inch OLED show and a 48MP digital camera. It’s going to be joined by triple 48MP cameras and 48MP entrance digital camera with optical picture stabilization (OIS), presumably for the iPhone 17 Professional. 12GB RAM can also be on the menu, as is a POL-LESS show, an upgraded OLED panel made by Samsung that makes the show thinner, brighter and extra environment friendly.
Apple in 2026: Foldable iPhone, Cheaper XR headset
In 2026, we could lastly get a foldable iPhone, the roadmap claims. This may very well be 6- and 8-inches in accordance with the graphic, which suggests Apple’s making a book-style foldable, relatively than the flip-style one we would anticipated. Nevertheless, observe {that a} separate report within the Korean publication Alpha Enterprise says that the foldable iPhone might slip till early 2027.
Past that, we will apparently additionally anticipate a less expensive XR headset to comply with up the Imaginative and prescient Professional, OLED iPad Air and iPad mini fashions, and the primary OLED MacBooks, which we would assume are going to be Professional fashions due to the 14-inch and 16-inch sizes references.
The roadmap additionally claims Apple will undertake Samsung’s quicker and extra environment friendly LLW DRAM, (as detailed by Tom’s {Hardware}), and an infrared sensor panel, although we’re unsure what this final one means exactly.
Apple in 2027: First AR glasses, foldable iPad
On the finish of the roadmap, marking 2027 onwards, Samsung Securities predicts Apple to supply its first AR Glasses with 1.4-inch RGD microOLED or microLED shows. As for its extra established gadget traces, that is the yr once we’ll get a 20-inch foldable iPad in accordance with Samsung Securities, which is odd since we had heard this could arrive earlier than the foldable iPhone in accordance with different sources.
To state the apparent, Apple appears to have so much for us to sit up for on the best way within the subsequent few years. Little doubt rivals, together with Samsung Securities’ colleagues over in its cell arm, can have loads to indicate off too, together with extra superior tech than Apple’s rumored to be utilizing in some circumstances. However anybody seeking to get foldables or XR/spatial computing gadgets particularly from Apple will probably be pleased to know they’re seemingly on the best way.
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