“Apple is widely rumored to release its first iPhone with an OLED display next year,” Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors.
“In a new research note, [KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo] said the much-rumored premium iPhone model will indeed have a 5.8-inch OLED panel, but with a smaller actual active display area of between 5.1 and 5.2 inches,” Rossignol reports. “Kuo said this is for ‘specific design purposes,’ which likely points towards a wraparound or flexible display of some sort.”
We predict OLED iPhone will adopt a 5.7-5.8” flexible OLED panel (with Samsung (KR) as the exclusive supplier). Nonetheless, for ‘specific design purposes’, the actual active area may be around 5.1-5.2”. Other than the OLED model, we expect Apple to launch new 4.7” and 5.5” TFT-LCD iPhone models. — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo
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MacDailyNews Take: WHen Ming-Chi Kuo speaks about materials and technologies, people listen.
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I know the patent drawing is unlikely to come to fruition, but can someone clue me in to why anyone would EVER want a display that curved *away* from you?
…so that Ssmsung will copy it that way before Apple comes out with the right design
Everyone knows departing viewing angles enhance viewing experience.
Noob.
All sorts of wrong with that design.
yey again bs about iphone 8.
whats wrong with you MDN…
it only 2 months iphone 7 is out..
whats the point of constantly regurgitating iphone 8 news…
Are you forced to jump on the bsnd wagon…
or this is by choice and u dont see the harm and distractions it creates…
sighhhhhhh
Kuo has turned into a full fledged stock manipulator now!