Features We’d Love To See In An iPhone Ultra – SlashGear

Apple has been working on MicroLED screens for years, with the Apple Watch slated to be the first to use the new screen technology. That’s one option, but Apple has a history of bringing significant advancements to its premium range first. That’s usually the iPhone Pro models, but if Apple adds a third, higher tier, the iPhone Ultra would be the perfect device to inject MicroLED.

Everything Apple puts in the iPhone Ultra would have to be better than the other two ranges. It could use OLED with ProMotion, but that doesn’t differentiate it from the Pro model. MicroLED would, by bringing burn-in-free, self-emissive pixels to the pocketable iPhone screen. It’s a better technology than MiniLED, the other premium screen technology that Apple uses in its iPad Pro and MacBook Pro ranges. Because it has no backlight, it can perfectly dim any pixel on the screen. It can be brighter than OLED or even LCD technologies. And it has the potential to be more energy efficient than OLED, perfect for longer battery life on your iPhone. MIT recently developed a way of stacking the RGB MicroLED pixels instead of putting them side-by-side. Apple could use this method to supercharge its iPhone Ultra screen to have up to 5,000 pixels per inch, over 10 times the PPI of the existing iPhone 14 Pro.