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The iPhone 16e signals the death of LCDs and the death of the smartphone for some


Apple no longer sells any phones with LCD panels, and fewer companies are offering these eye-friendly alternatives than ever.

While that might sound good on the surface, it's actually a problem because Apple doesn't offer a flicker-free option for its OLED-equipped devices, meaning anyone with PWM sensitivity can no longer buy a new iPhone from this day onward. (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central) Apple has yet to introduce any kind of flicker-reduction accessibility option, a huge problem now that the company no longer sells LCD-equipped phones. One example is a 2023 smartphone PWM study by a Samsung Electronics staff engineer, which claims that "at a distance of 5 cm or more, the 240 Hz band was confirmed as undistinguishable from ambient noise."

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