With its LTPO panel, the iPhone 13 Pro inaugurates a technology that has never been seen before on Apple smartphones. And the iPhone 14 should follow. Behind this somewhat barbaric acronym is the essential ingredient behind the brand new displays ranging from 10Hz to 120Hz.
The 120 Hz screen is one of the great novelties of l’iPhone 13 Prowhich will undoubtedly end in the iPhone 14 range. With this improvement, which allows for better display fluidity, Apple joins the ranks other Android manufacturers who have already adopted this technology (Samsung, Oppo, etc). Not to spoil anything, these screens also allow big gains in autonomy thanks to their variable refresh rate. All this is made possible thanks to the use of a particular component: the LTPO backplane. Don’t run away right away, we’ll explain.
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Understanding the LTPO: anatomy of a screen
If the screens of our smartphones seem to be built with a single layer, when you look closer, the situation is quite different. Between the window that we tap and the motherboard of the phone, there are 5 or 6 layers of various technologies. One of the most important is backplane technology (backplane in English).
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