Apple intends to launch a new low-cost iPhone for the Chinese market, which features an under-screen fingerprint sensor instead of the expensive Face ID technology, according to some Chinese media sources.
According to a source in the Chinese English media The Global Times, Apple intends to launch a new iPhone at a low price designed specifically for the Chinese market, in order to avoid a decrease in sales in the Chinese market, which has been exacerbated by cost pressures resulting from the 18-month-long trade war between the United States of America and China.
According to reports from caijing, citing sources in the supply chain, the new iPhone will come without Face ID technology, and instead will use fingerprint technology under the screen. This is likely to save a lot of costs.
A representative in Beijing, who preferred not to be named, said that Face ID alone costs hundreds of Chinese yuan (the report exaggerates the cost as the IHS Center said that the cost of the IR, Flood illuminator and Dot Projector cost Apple $ 16.7, which represents approximately 5). % Of the cost of manufacturing the iPhone X two years ago) The "Global Times" newspaper reported yesterday that only Apple can afford the cost of making this technology, but this comes at the expense of its sales.
Rumors began on a large scale that Apple is trying to integrate the fingerprint Touch ID under the screen in the iPhone X of 2017. Instead, Apple got rid of it permanently and the home button and introduced Face ID technology, and Apple later denied that it was planning for this. But in general, since then, Chinese companies have gone in the opposite direction and adopted fingerprint sensor technology under the screen, and from these companies Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo and OnePlus (the last 3 are one company).
It seems that this strategy adopted by those Chinese companies has paid off, as Apple has lost many Chinese users who prefer smartphones at a low price of about 5000 yuan ($ 731), which has led to an increase in the purchase of Chinese devices.
As a result of the shift of many companies to the technology of sensing fingerprints under the screen, observers believe that Apple will integrate this technology in its phones in the near future, and this is explained by the patents that Apple provided in earlier times for this technology, we talked about in a previous article - Link - And this article - Link .
After meetings with suppliers in Apple's Asian supply chain in May, Barclays analysts claimed that the 2020 iPhones will feature fingerprint technology and will come ahead of current companies and be integrated into the full screen.
Notably, news of Apple's sales decline in China contrasts with the company's recent earnings results. CEO Tim Cook said in April that performance in China had improved compared to the previous quarter, thanks in part to the country's sales tax cut that allowed Apple to lower the price of its products.
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Apple may intend to provide a copy of the iPhone that includes a built-in fingerprint sensor on the screen; But it is inconceivable that Apple decided that it would be exclusive to China only, so there is no logical justification behind this matter. The decline in sales in China is not because the Chinese user sees a high-priced iPhone, the phone is always like this, but the reason is the political conflict between China and America and the Chinese user's standing with his country against what they said was US imperialism and the state encouraged citizens to get rid of the iPhone. So providing a cheap phone will not solve the crisis and make the iPhone attractive.
But Apple could decide that all of the next three X versions will be FaceID fingerprint and decide that the successor to the SE, which has been awaited for a year, will come with a fingerprint in the screen in order to reduce the cost. We do not know, but we conveyed the news to you as it is.
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Unfortunately for a long time, I have been following the comments of the iPhone Islam or the analyzes of the iPhone Islam, it always comes completely opposite! I do not know why …. Although working in technology to logical analyzes!
If they return the fingerprint, it is better and faster than the face print
So we will buy the Chinese version
If Apple did it with a cheap iPhone version to China, it would have removed the luxury mask on its face.
When will the final update come out, we have waited a lot for the phones' performance, the most important of which is the battery
Subject in a valley
And my Android tabla in a second valley
As soon as they hear the word "China"
They start talking about the collapse of Apple
And Huawei's sweep of outer space
And Xiaomi and Oppo landed on Mars
Poor true Android folks
They have a feeling of inferiority and imperative
We pray for them and a little time 😭😭😭
On the whole, iPhone sales are down
In China, almost not large, 15% decline.
But tech sites exaggerate it
Samsung's sales declined
To 60%
On the whole I think Apple is trying
Stimulate the big Chinese market
By offering their own products
This is the second time after launch
The actual slide is just there
Frankly, I think that the face print on the iPhone was unable to distinguish the Chinese faces 😂😂😂
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Hahaha
And I think that Yvonne Islam is unable to put the Like button on comments as it was in the past
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We do not wrong them
I suspect the management of the synchronizer is not in their hands
And they are just a part
Of course, they are supposed to deliver the voices of their followers to the official, as they are the most popular in Sync, I believe
Tell me and how many years ago we ask them to return the Like button on the comments, but no one answers
I am a follower of Yvonne Islam almost since its inception, and I used to subscribe with them an annual subscription, but due to the lack of support, I left the subscription even though I love them and love their articles very much.
But if there is no answer to our questions, there is no need to subscribe
We have answered before, with the presence of synchronization and a number of other sources, it is difficult to put the like button in the comments. If you like a comment, reply to the comment even with a simple word, until we find a solution.
China gives them assertion, but we don’t have people asking us
I see that it is retreating from Apple because Chinese companies like Huawei have swept China and the rest of the world with all technologies and flew at lightning speed and flew away, and all companies are trying to pursue them.
For years we have noticed Apple's vinegar and all the companies in technology, and the Chinese companies have come with something that the ships do not desire.
Your comment is realistic 👍🏻
Personally, I did not buy the iPhone X because of the face print and I find that the fingerprint is better and safer, especially since the face print technology placed in the iPhone is made by an Israeli company
Ok, if an Israeli woman sees a facial print, it is saved in the device and is not available to the servers
Ok, but why in China ☹️😐
We are a Prophet
Chinese because they are similar formally, anyone can unlock the second mobile 😂
There is a lot of confusion fueling the trade war between America and China ... The Chinese market is witnessing frenzied competition and local brands have advanced a lot, so Apple may be right to produce an iPhone with special hardware for this market.