The “Thirteen incense” in his hand has just been popular, and the next generation, or even the next generation of Apple phones, is already “on the road”. Although most rumors are about the iPhone 14 series to be released in 2022, some of them have involved the iPhone 15 in 2023.
According to foreign media reports, analyst Jeff Pu claimed that Apple iPhone 15 pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will be equipped with a periscope camera lens with 5x optical zoom, and Zhejiang Lante Optics Co.Ltd(688127) is expected to become a major supplier. Apple has received component samples, and the final decision is expected to be made in May. If the two companies reach a deal, Zhejiang Lante Optics Co.Ltd(688127) is likely to supply more than 100 million components to apple. Guo Mingyu, an analyst at Tianfeng international, also mentioned earlier that apple is trying to add a periscope lens to the iPhone released in 2023.
Periscope lens refers to the telephoto lens designed by people to imitate periscope. It uses a special optical prism to refract the light into the lens group to realize imaging, which can greatly increase the focal length of the camera, improve the zoom ability and shoot further scenery without increasing the thickness of the mobile phone, but the disadvantage is that it takes up too much internal space of the mobile phone.
In fact, periscope lens has already appeared on Android phones. Oppo was the first mobile phone manufacturer to launch the periscope camera. At the 2017 world mobile conference MWC, oppo first demonstrated the 5x lossless zoom technology based on the periscope camera structure. Subsequently, Huawei and Samsung also equipped periscope lenses on their flagship mobile phones, which can provide 10 to 100 times zoom.
At present, there are two difficulties in the appearance design of the mobile phone, one is the hole digging or banging of the front camera, and the other is the protrusion of the rear camera module. in addition to the rear camera, Apple seems to be catching up with Android in terms of front camera.
It is rumored that both the 6.1-inch iPhone 14 pro and the 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Pro Max will use a perforated front camera to undertake the face ID face recognition function with this small hole and abandon the “bangs”. There are also rumors that the iPhone 14 will have both face recognition and fingerprint recognition functions.
what are the characteristics of “apple made” compared with the traditional periscope lens? judging from the patent of periscope lens published by apple, researchers mainly hope that the module thickness of periscope lens is thinner and the camera aperture is kept at f / 2.4 or higher.
It is worth noting that another possible update of iPhone 14 is that the lens will be flat with the fuselage and will not protrude from the fuselage. There are two schemes of this design, one is the reduction of the depth and height of the lens module, and the other is the increase of the thickness of the mobile phone. The thinner periscope lens module can obviously assist the former technical route.
In addition, according to a number of media reports, the speculation on the time when Apple mobile phones are equipped with periscope lens is relatively consistent – 2023, but the potential supplier is still a mystery. the elec, a Korean media, previously predicted that Apple might choose LG Innotek, a long-term supplier. While predicting the release time of Apple’s periscope lens, Guo Mingxuan stressed that daliguang is the largest supplier of Apple’s AR / MR headset camera lens.
There are many potential suppliers. From the perspective of several released periscope lens smart phones, the main module suppliers are head mobile camera manufacturers, including Shunyu optics, Ofilm Group Co.Ltd(002456) , Lijing optoelectronics and Samsung motor. The main lens suppliers are daliguang and Shunyu optics, the main CMOS chip suppliers are Sony and Samsung, and the main VCM suppliers are TDK and Mitsumi, Major prism suppliers include sunny optics, Costar Group Co.Ltd(002189) , Asia optics, Zhejiang Crystal-Optech Co.Ltd(002273) and optrontec.
