“An iPhone with a curved screen could be on store shelves as soon as next year,” Takashi Mochizuki and Eun-Young Jeong report for The Wall Street Journal. “Apple Inc.’s suppliers say they have been asked to increase output of thinner organic light emitting displays and submit prototype screens with better resolution than ones from Samsung to differentiate its models.”
“An iPhone with an OLED screen could be introduced as one of several models to be unveiled, people familiar with the matter said, but would come with a higher price tag because OLED displays are more expensive to produce,” Mochizuki and Jeong report. “Apple may decide not to release the model because it is one of more than 10 prototypes being considered, said the people.”
“People familiar with the matter said Apple will likely rely on Samsung for most of its initial OLED needs but it wants LG Display, Japan Display and Sharp to ramp up production to have supplies ready for 2018,” Mochizuki and Jeong report. “One of the people said Sharp would need to spend more than $5 billion to supply enough OLED panels to Apple.”
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Another non-innovation.
Samsung already has this.
We are entering an era where “A phone is just a phone.”
No gimmicks, jut one that works without a 30% problem.
Who really wants a curved screen, it was a dumb idea for TV’s and its dumb idea for phones.. I think Sammy has already proved that curved screen models don’t sell.. Why would Apple copy an obvious fail. The media is filled with morons.
You’re right, a folding screen would be a better bit.
“better resolution than ones from Samsung to differentiate its models”
This is complete nonsense, Samsung already pushed the resolutions way past anything useful at considerable cost of power requirements. Apple have always used good engineering decisions to determine resolution (what do we need) rather than others like Samsung (what’s Apple got then double it) and played a part in their battery problems.
Oh, a curved screen! A great solution for a problem that doesn’t exist…
Apple copying Samdung? Hilarious.