iPhone 12 design kills the notch — and includes a big surprise

(Image credit: Donel Bagrov)

The iPhone 12 is easily the near anticipated phone of the year, even though the release date seems to exist a moving target. First we heard the new 5G iPhone could be delayed months — and possibly be pushed to 2021. And then other reports said that the iPhone 12 was still on schedule for a fall launch.

Whenever the iPhone 12 does appear, we have a pretty clear pic of what to look. There volition reportedly be two iPhone 12 models that come with 5.four-inch and half dozen.1-inch displays, and two iPhone 12 Pro models that come in 6.ane-inch and six.vii-inch sizes. And a designer has just revealed what the iPhone 12 Pro could expect similar should Apple decide to kill the notch altogether.

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Graphic designer Donel Bagrov has posted several images of the iPhone 12 Pro, and they mostly line up with the leaked specs we've seen thus far. But there are 2 features here that would exist huge departures from the iPhone 12 rumor manufacturing plant and leaks up until now.

iPhone 12 display 120Hz — (Prototype credit: Donel Bagrov)

On the expected front, the iPhone 12 Pro shown has a display refresh rate of 120Hz, which volition presumably employ the same ProMotion technology inside the new iPad Pro 2020. This will allow the phone to adjust the refresh rate automatically, which will save bombardment life. By contrast, the Samsung Galaxy S20 forces you lot to turn on 120Hz manually.

iPhone 12 under display camera — (Image credit: Donel Bagrov)

Where's the notch? Information technology's nowhere to be found on this iPhone 12 Pro concept, equally the design sports an nether-display photographic camera. Nosotros've heard that the notch could compress on the iPhone 12 but there have been very trivial in the way of predictions that it would go away. Nevertheless, it would exist amazing to meet a truthful all-screen iPhone 12. Samsung Display is working on displays with invisible cameras for its own future phones and other partners, merely there's no firm timetable.

Effectually dorsum, the iPhone 12 Pro concept has four cameras, including a main 64MP sensor, an ultra-wide camera with optical image stabilization, a dedicated portrait photographic camera and a telephoto lens with a 5x optical zoom. The latter sensor would let the iPhone 12 Pro to better compete with the Samsung Milky way S20 Ultra, which has a 4x optical zoom and 10x hybrid lossless zoom. Concluding but non least is a LiDAR scanner, which would help AR app functioning.

iPhone 12 slider control — (Image credit: Donel Bagrov)

The second big surprise in this iPhone 12 Pro concept is what the designer calls Slide and TapTap. This telephone doesn't take any mechanical buttons. Instead, there appears to be a taptic button for power on the correct edge of the telephone and a volume slider on the left. A double TapTap would toggle the ringer on and off.

iPhone 12 reverse wireless charging — (Image credit: Donel Bagrov)

Other features shown on the iPhone 12 Pro blueprint include a new 5nm processor (which we presume is the A14 Bionic) and the power to practice "reverse charge." The latter characteristic would permit you juice another phone on the back of the iPhone or your AirPods or AirPods Pro. Android phones have had opposite wireless charging for a while, including last year's Galaxy S10 serial.

Concluding merely non least, this iPhone 12 Pro comes in Night Teal, which looks cracking. But we've been hearing that Apple tree will be adding a dark bluish iPhone 12 to the mix instead. Do we retrieve Apple tree volition impale the notch and physical buttons this year? Nope, just the design is still pretty captivating and could become a reality for the iPhone 13.

Mark Spoonauer is the global editor in main of Tom'south Guide and has covered technology for nearly twenty years. In improver to overseeing the direction of Tom's Guide, Marker specializes in covering all things mobile, having reviewed dozens of smartphones and other gadgets. He has spoken at primal industry events and appears regularly on TV to talk over the latest trends. Mark was previously editor in principal of Laptop Magazine, and his work has appeared in Wired, Pop Scientific discipline and Inc. Follow him on Twitter at @mspoonauer.