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The Next iPhone Will Feature An OLED Display, Says Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Apple Inc. has big plans to outfit its next iPhone with vibrant, energy-sipping organic LED displays, seeking to entice consumers with new technology that's already been embraced by other high-end smartphone makers. The trouble is that the four main suppliers for such components won't have enough production capacity to make screens for all new iPhones next year, with constraints continuing into 2018, people familiar with the matter said, presenting a potential challenge for the Cupertino, California-based company. OLED screens are more difficult to produce, putting Apple at the mercy of suppliers that are still working to manufacture the displays in mass quantities, the people said. The four largest producers are Samsung Display Co., LG Display Co., Sharp Corp., and Japan Display Inc. While Samsung is on track to be the sole supplier for the new displays next year, the South Korean company may not be able to make enough due to low yield rates combined with increasing iPhone demand. The supply constraints may force Apple to use OLED in just one version of the next-generation iPhone, push back adoption of the technology or cause other snags. Apple plans to ship at least one new iPhone with an OLED screen next year, the 10th anniversary of the smartphone's debut, people with knowledge of the matter said. A pair of other new iPhone models will likely feature screens that use older LCD technology, partly because there won't be enough OLED displays to satisfy anticipated demand, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The OLED iPhone, at least, will have a new look that extends glass from the display to the device's back and edges, according to a person familiar with Apple's plans. This all-glass design will have a virtual Home button embedded in an edge-to-edge screen, rather than a physical button that can be pressed, the person added.
We have to hear about the next one a year or two in advance, all the damn time.
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That's the real headline.
Will this allow them to make the phone thinner?
I love my iPhone 7, but the battery still lasts too long, and there's still too many goddam ports and buttons on the thing. I wish Apple would come out with a thinner phone that had half the battery capacity, no Lightning port, and a completely sealed and smooth chassis. Extra points for making it so thin there's no practical way I could ever put it in my pocket and sit down without breaking it. They're almost there with the 6 and 7, but not quite. I hate having any semblance of durability on my premium hardware. The phone should never last longer than the warranty, otherwise there's no reason for me to go out and buy new shiny hardware every 3 years.
I'm sure people will be talking about yet another Apple innovation in the years to come.
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I have yet to use an LED display of any type. Have they improved over the last few years? Last I checked, the colors always looked way off when compared to an LCD and they seemed a bit more "pixely". Also, LED displays always seemed "brighter", but only until you go outside and then LCD seems much better.
I am guessing LED is the future and will eventually replace LCD TV's and monitors as well as phones, it is just that the displays are starting small so phones get to be first.
Who gives a shit?!
I hope it comes with a news filter, so I don't get "fake" news stories by accident. I wouldn't want to get negative news from the "right party" and positive news from the "wrong party" which might influence my opinion about certain candidates.
Yeah, it consumes less power, but it looks terrible. Starts out dimmer than LCD, gets dimmer with age, color balance starts feeling off subpar, gets terrible with age, always looks bad outdoors, burn-in prone, etc. It also feels like the colors "bleed" more in LED, although that could just be my perception. I know that blacks are supposed to be better with LED than LCD (and thus they get higher nominal contrast ratios), but in most viewing conditions the black difference is not something you notice, unless it's very dark. I once went around to my coworkers and compared my Z2 (LCD) to their cell phones of roughly the same age and resolution and there was no comparison, the Z2 looked way better.
Maybe the technology has advanced significantly since then... but otherwise, no thank you.
Wingus, Dingus! Listen up!
Somehow I think the manufacturers will be able to make enough displays for the iPhones when the time comes. It isn't like they need to dig them out of mines or something. Any manufacturer would kill to be a supplier for the iPhones.
...the phone's display will not be backlit. An Apple spokesman stated, "Our phones' beauty can only be appreciated fully in natural sunlight. To improve our customers' experience we've removed the backlight so that they can enjoy the smooth, sleek thinness of their phones as Ives intended."
so you know it gonna taste like arse!
You mean an OLED display like on the Nexus One back in 2009? What's next, wireless charging?
...the next iPhone will not have an on-off button. Because courage.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
I was thinking I might go iPhone next time, but partly because of how impressed I am with the iPhone 7 display! Why anyone would want an OLED on phone is beyond me. The colors look ridiculous. You can spot an OLED phone from a mile away from the psychedelic color rendition. Can't do it!
Yes, I get it, the iPhone 7's launch was boring. It doesn't do anything new unless you're a pro photographer or a someone who needs to access Slashdot twice as fast via the A10 processor, but come on! You just got a new phone! I have seen articles about this a week after the iPhone 7 launch. You just got a new phone that does everything the last one did (minus the headphone jack), meaning there's 2 reasons not to be excited for a new phone!
1. You JUST got the new phone and should appreciate what you have - seriously, people like you may be the reason that Apple releases new gadgets that don't introduce anything new. They can't wait for a problem they can solve to arise because everyone's constantly pissing themselves over technologies and new gadgets that aren't worth an upgrade. You want a good phone worth $700? Keep your current phone (or PC, or generic shiny device) for a few years, then ugrade - all the new stuff will make a bigger splash because of how long you've been on old stuff, and it'll thus
a. Feel greater than buying the newest thing all the time because you're going from horse drawn carrige to sports car rather than nice car to sports car
b. Be cheaper because you won't be spending $700 every single year
2. Apple just showed that they didn't change anything meaningful for the better, so how do you know the new phone will actually be an improvement over the 6S, which is still just as good for most people as the 7 (and maybe better because of the headphone jack).
Conclusion: Quit urinating all over yourself over the next gadget. Ever read the book "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie"? If a 6 year old can figure it out, so can you.
...buy a Samsung. Simple.
they are all shit, a bit of sunlight and they are useless, where are all the transflective displays ?
Nope. I keep my iPhone 6S Plus in an otterbox defender because I don't want my $1,000 phone breaking if I drop it.
The otterbox has raised edges to protect the screen but they make accessing the very edges of the screen a bit troublesome. No unusable but a bit of a bother.
I just have to have patience when I need to touch things at the very edge of the screen.
But if Apple is going to make the new iPhone with no bezel and push pixels to the very edge of the screen then an otterbox is not going to work anymore.
To me that's a total deal breaker. And this talk about an all glass case? What the actual fuck?!! How stupid is that?!
If they really do build such a phone then I will not be buying. I'll hang on to my 6S+ until they obsolete it (which they WILL)
Or maybe they'll come out with a 7S+ which will not have have the bastard all glass case or the zero bezel system.
As it is now I can't find any reason to dump my 6S+ for a 7+ but maybe they'll do a 7S+ and I might jump to that.
All glass case? Deal breaker. Zero bezel ? Deal Breaker.
Don't be stupid Apple.
Apple products usually get very low repairability scores. Soldering the disk onto the computers mainboard, and subsequently having to replace both mainboard and disk when the on/off button fails is one aspect, or having non-user-replaceable batteries in a glued-down case another. Using OLEDs which are known to degrade relative quickly in comparison to other display technologies is the next step in turning an overpriced giimmic into problematic trash as fast as user protection laws allow. Or even faster. I can guarantee that the T&Cs the user agrees to when using his toy for the first time will cover their asses even if the display will be FUBARed within a few months of use.
But hey, when one values a brands "coolness" over its qualities or ability to deliver, they deserve being reamed.
Just creating hypes , iPhone not sold this year as everyone expecting , won't sell much as well next year .