{"id":48280,"date":"2012-04-20T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=48280"},"modified":"2012-04-20T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T08:10:52","slug":"iphone-5-to-get-new-touch-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/48280-iphone-5-to-get-new-touch-technology.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 5 to get new touch technology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\" target=\"_blank\">Apple\u2019s<\/a> next generation iPhone device may make use of a new touch panel technology, allowing the phone to be slimmer and lighter.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a report by <em>Digitimes<\/em>, who quote sources saying that yield rates of \u201cin-cell touch panels\u201d have improved to the point where Apple is now in talks with two Japanese companies who produce the technology.<\/p>\n<p>In-cell multi-touch technology integrates into the TFT LCD manufacturing process, reducing the need for touch-dedicated sensors and glass over the LCD panel.<\/p>\n<p>The report goes on to state that the Japanese companies will increase production of the technology in the second quarter of this year, ahead of the expected third quarter iPhone 5 launch date.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13924_3-57417464-64\/next-iphone-said-to-get-new-touch-panel-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest rumours indicate slimmer, lighter iPhone 5 with new touch technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,2000,1998],"class_list":["post-48280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-iphone-5","tag-rumour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48282,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48280\/revisions\/48282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}