Who Are Apple’s New Periscope Camera Module Suppliers for the iPhone 15 Pro Max? 

After months of uncertainty, Apple has finally decided which company will be the supplier of the periscope camera module in the iPhone 15 Pro Max.

LG Innotek and Jahwa Electronics chosen, according to Elec on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. It was stated that both LG Innotek and Jahwa Electronic will provide OIS actuators for the periscope camera module. Which supply 70 percent and 30 percent, respectively.

For your information : Jahwa has teamed up with Samsung Electronics and Samsung Electro-Mechanics to supply components for the upcoming Galaxy S23 series as well as the Galaxy A54.

Currently, Apple’s suppliers Alps Alpine and Mizumi have shipped spring-type actuator components for iPhone cameras. However, the spherical actuator made by LG Innotek and Jahwa Electronics recognized as faster, more accurate, and using less power, which’s the reason Apple made the switch. Both LG Innotek and Jahwa Electronics have invested heavily in their component development facilities.

iPhone 15 Pro Max it’s Apple’s first phone to use a periscope lens. And it won’t built into any other iPhone 15 models. In connection with iPhone 15 leak, it’s said that iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus will get an exclusive feature from Pro version of iPhone 14, namely Dynamic Island.

This feature is a replacement for the notch that has been present on iPhone screens for years. Dynamic Island combines hardware and software design to make it interactive and useful for users. Information about the presence Dynamic Island feature on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus has revealed by Mark Gurman from Bloomberg.

Dynamic Island on iPhone 15 Pro Max

Dynamic Island has the advantage of being just a punch hole on the device screen. In addition to rocking the premium iPhone appearance. Dynamic Island used extensively with the iOS interface, showing ongoing notifications, privacy indicators, what song is currently playing, navigation direction notifications, and more.

The presence of Dynamic Island on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus will undoubtedly make the two standard phones in the iPhone 15 Pro Max series more attractive to Apple lovers. How could it not be? It’s predecessors, iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, considered by most people to be minimal updates from the previous iPhone.

Other features that are also present on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

Just for your information, Dynamic Island not the only Pro feature that will presented on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus. Previously, Apple also rumored to be bringing a 48-megapixel high-resolution camera to the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus.

This feature was also previously present on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. However, this year, it is likely to become a universal feature on the iPhone 15 series. That way, there’s a significant increase in iPhone that will released in 2023.

Apart from that, it has reported that iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus will also equipped with a USB Type-C port as a universal feature for all iPhones released in 2023. This’s because Apple’s Lightning port will discontinued soon.

About Dynamic Island on iPhone 15 Pro Max

When releasing the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, Apple presented a notch replacement. It turns out that this notch design called Dynamic Island. Which has more intuitive and useful capabilities than a notch.

In its statement, Apple refers to the cutout on the screen shaped like a pill as “Dynamic Island”. Dynamic Island provides new ways for users to interact with the iPhone.

This Dynamic Island combines hardware with software. The black part on the top screen of this iPhone can display notifications and activities carried out by the user in real time. For example, when a user listens to a song, Dynamic Island will display what song is playing. When the user calls, Dynamic Island shows the call in progress.

That way, users can access control over the activities they are currently doing on the iPhone more easily.

Notifications can displayed on a dynamic island. 

On iOS 16, background activities will displayed on Dynamic Island range from Map, Music, Timer, Phone, to the third application. The presence of Dynamic Island clearly intended to provide notification information to users without having to leave application that’s opened.

User can see from Dynamic Island that their Lyft ride is two minutes away without having exit iMessage. When connected to AirPods, Dynamic Island can also show what percentage AirPods charge used.

When user gets a notification in Dynamic Island, the little black cutout at the top of the iPhone screen expands and provides relevant information about other apps running in the background.