Apple's new iPhones will have a 12-megapixel selfie camera, report claims

The new selfie camera will be "inconspicuous".
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Apple's new iPhone models, likely coming out this fall, will get an improved selfie camera, and two new models will get a triple camera with a super-wide lens, a new report claims.

The news is courtesy of reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via MacRumors), and while it mostly rehashes his report from early April, it does mention a few new details.

Kuo claims that the 6.5-inch OLED and the 5.8-inch OLED iPhones -- corresponding to the iPhone XS Max and the iPhone XS -- will get the triple camera, while the 6.1-inch LCD model (corresponding to the iPhone XR) will be upgraded to a dual camera.

He also believes that all three new iPhones will get the exact same, 12-megapixel selfie camera.

Finally, Kuo says the super-wide lens, as well as the front lens, will have a special black coating to make them "inconspicuous." 9to5Mac points out that this near-invisible look might make the new iPhones more aesthetically pleasing. This is good news; the renders we've seen (check out the video below) don't look very beautiful, and it's unlikely that they represent the look of the final product.

There's no mention of a possible fourth and fifth iPhone, which were recently rumored by Japanese blog Macotakara.

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Stan Schroeder
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.

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