As much as Apple tries, and imposes sanctions on anyone who violates its confidentiality contracts, it is practically impossible that some information is not leaked from time to time from the assembly lines of the company's devices.
Apple is very airtight in that sense.. You don't want to show your devices or part of them until they want to. More than to surprise their users, I suppose they will do so to avoid giving clues to competing companies. Photos have been leaked from the assembly line of the "allegedly" iPhone 12 screens.
Photos of smartphone screens have appeared on the Chinese social network Weibo and later on Twitter. The informant claims they are from the future 12 inch iPhone 5,4. It will be necessary to trust him, since only the panels of the screens are seen in the manufacturing chain, before they are attached to the mobile phone case.
As seen in the image, it cannot be guaranteed that they are iPhone screens. By design and shape they could be, and the notch that presents to house the front camera and sensors is typical of the company's latest iPhones.
iPhone 12 的 真 机 屏幕 ， 5.4 英寸 的 刘海 全面 屏 ， 单 手 掌握 ， 这 不 就是 你们 想要 的 小 屏 旗舰 吗 [笑 而不 语] pic.twitter.com/esAyjSQGXD
- Digital Chat Station (@StationChat) July 27, 2020
The images have been retouched to erase reflections from the screen, where the face of the person who took the photo would surely appear, or some element that would identify the place where the photo was taken.
If these photos really belong to the panels of the screens of the new iPhone 12, we can only draw a couple of conclusions that we already knew. The first is that the disputed notch still appears higher on the screen, as in all iPhones that incorporate Face ID.
The second is that the components of the future iPhone 12 are already being manufactured. That means that if they start to be assembled in August, they could be ready for commercialization in October.
