“Japan’s Sharp Corp. said it will start shipping screens destined for a new Apple iPhone that is widely expected to be released in October ahead of the pre-Christmas shopping season,” Tim Kelly reports for Reuters. “‘Shipments will start in August,’ Sharp’s new president, Takashi Okuda, said at a press briefing in Tokyo on Thursday after the company released its latest quarterly earnings.”
“Apple is planning a major product launch on Sept 12, stoking speculation that the world’s most valuable technology company will announce the sale of its redesigned iPhone. Sharp, identified as a supplier by Apple last year, is one of three companies expected to build the screens for the latest Apple offering,” Kelly reports. “The other two suppliers of the panels are LG Display Co Ltd and Japan Display Inc.”
Kelly reports, “Sources earlier told Reuters that the panels will be 4 inches corner to corner — 30 percent bigger than current iPhones… The iPhone screens will also be thinner than their previous incarnations with the use of so-called in-cell panels. The new technology embeds touch sensors into the liquid crystal display, eliminating the touch-screen layer found in current iPhones.”
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That’s funny. I don’t see Samsung as a display supplier for Apple…
That’s great! Now, if i didn’t have to see samsung as chip supplier either….
I don’t see Sharp as a supplier for long either if they can’t keep their mouth shut.
I don’t think there is any way that the Sharp president would have been stupid enough to have said what he did without the express permision of Apple.
Agree!
This better be an intentional leak. Would hate for Apple to have to end this new partnership and take back its fancy machinery.
Are we sure this isn’t the screen for the iPad Nano?
Steve would tear this guy a new one for Talking about something he should NOT.
They had just announced a loss in the 1st quarter, he needed to give investors something to keep the stock from getting spanked.
OMG! One must do anything to short sightedly keep the stock up!
How stupid can you get? You think Apple operates like that?