iPhone 16 capacitive button rumor resurrected by supply chain report

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News Summary

  • iPhone 16 Pro may have larger screensAs of late, the rumor mill has been quiet on the topic of all of the mechanical buttons on the iPhone 16 family being replaced by capacitive ones, but a new report claims a supplier has been picked to do just that.
  • A completely new rumor in the report claims that there will be two Taptic Engine motors to give users vibration feedback when "pressing" any capacitive button.
  • Capacitive buttons were said to replace all of the mechanical ones in the iPhone 15 series, but that obviously didn't pan out.
  • In this case, the questionable aspect claim is that all of the buttons will be replaced by capacitive ones.After his exit from the Navy in 1999, Mike spent 11 years as a tech analyst, and supported a large swathe of Apple customers in the Washington DC area.
  • However, if a new report on Monday morning can be believed, Apple has picked a long-time partner in its supply chain to fulfill the orders The report from Economic Daily on Monday claims that Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has been awarded a massive order for the component.
  • The orders are said to hit volume production in the third quarter, but that feels late to be used for the iPhone 16 which needs to ship in quantity in the last days of the third quarter.
iPhone 16 Pro may have larger screensAs of late, the rumor mill has been quiet on the topic of all of the mechanical buttons on the iPhone 16 family being replaced by capacitive ones, but a new rep [+2221 chars]

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