iPhone X Face ID Sensors To Blame For Limited Supply

There have been many reports claiming that the iPhone X will be in short supply at launch. That’s apparently due to production issues with the handset’s Face ID sensors. This has been reported previously as well and today The Wall Street Journal provides more information about what’s holding up Face ID sensors.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the iPhone X will be available in limited supply when it’s finally released on November 3rd. That’s due to the additional manufacturing issues presented by its Face ID sensors.

The report details that the iPhone X’s facial recognition sensor is divided into two parts called Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is the module which projects infrared dots to map the user’s face while Juliet reads that pattern.

The scribe hears from a source that Apple’s manufacturing partner is having issues with manufacturing yields for the Romeo module, it’s taking more time to assemble than its Juliet counterpart. This has created a bottleneck which has the potential to further limit supply at launch.

Demand is already expected to be quite high for the iPhone X as quite a few customers are believed to have skipped on the iPhone 8 in favor of the iPhone X. There are concerns that the iPhone X may be difficult to get one’s hands on until 2018. If that really is the case, some of Apple’s fans might have to wait for a long time to get Apple’s first OLED iPhone.

Adnan Farooqui
Categories: Apple, Cellphones
Tags: iPhone X