“Apple, the ‘Nucleus’ of smart device market, plans a strategic initiative involving a totally new display specification,” Moon Bo-gyeong reports for etnews. “Apple is heralding drastic changes in the market with iPhone growing bigger and iPad growing smaller, etc. As Apple, which became a primer to jolt up the display market that remained sluggish for the past several years, attempts to change itself again, attention is drawn to the ripple effects that Apple’s move may have on the display industry in Korea and the rest of the world.”
“According to an industry source on October 1, Apple plans to apply new display products to almost all of its products ranging from the next-generation iPhone to iPad, MacBook, and the like,” Moon reports. “The most notable change detected now is the change in the size of iPhone display. iPhone 5 increased the display size from 3.5 inch to 4 inch and its next version is sure to come with a bigger display at least 5 inch.”
Moon reports, “iPad display will change, too. The 9.7 inch-version to be released by the end of this year will have thinner bezel like iPad Mini. In addition, the 7.9 inch iPad Mini equipped with conventional display will be born again into a HD version having LTPS display next year. Like iPhone 5C, iPad will be divided into affordable and premium variations, depending on display. Furthermore, an oversized 12.9 inch-iPad will be also released next year for e-textbook and enterprise markets… From iPad 5 and iPad Mini retina version, Samsung Display is also expected to account for bigger share as well. Samsung Display and LG Display rolled up their sleeves in preparation for supplying more to Apple. Samsung Display and LG Display are building up production capacities for iPad LCD and iPhone, iPad, and MacBook LCDs respectively.”
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Don’t mention larger iPhone screens here! Many people will force their 4″-only philosophy on everyone and then melt in a fit.
Personally, 5″ sounds too big for me. I’d like 4.5″ to 4.7″ please.
Fits your purse?
iPhone 4″ will not go away.
Bigger 5″ is possible, but it is going to be parallel model.
4.8 inches to 5 inches will be the next size. They will keep the 4 inch model around for a year or so. Might as well milk all you can out of that production line. Who knows, perhaps they will make an iPhone Mini model in the future for guys with small hands? But the big phone is coming. Not too big, just a little bigger than what we have now. And it will sell like hotcakes! And not because it’s a refresh cycle for people who might as well move on to a newer phone due to their contract expiration either. It will sell like hotcakes because everybody will want it. And people will break their contract to buy it. I’m getting a couple of 5S iPhones next week and will gladly move up next year when the larger phone arrives. By then the fingerprint sensor should be fully ingrained in the retail market.
Sell like hotcakes? More like… sell like iPhones!
This “large iPhone” rumour has been going around for years now, and it looks exactly like the one about Apple TV set that Gene Munster seems to be announcing as imminent for years now.
I think that Apple would have produced a large-display iPhone by now if they think it would sell well.
Apparently, though, there are very few large-screen (5″ or greater) smartphone models on the market out there, and they are usually the first to get discounted. While they wow people when shown in advertising, once consumers actually take them in their hand, they realise how much of a brick the device actually is, and they decide to take something smaller.
I would be very much surprised if Apple decided to chase this corner of the market by introducing yet another screen size for iOS (on top of the current six (standard 3.5″, retina 3.5″, retina 4″, standard 7.9″, standard 9.7″, retina 9.7″ ).
My pocket could easily hold 5 inch. In fact, my iPhone 5 falls into my pocket sideways.
Really? I am 6′ 3″ 225lbs. None of my pants have pockets wide enough for my iPhone 5 to fit sideways. You must be a big mother or wear some unusual pants.
I’ll bet he’s got a big mother.
Well played.
Apple, please stop using Scamsong as a supplier. I know it’s hard to do given that they own a near-monopoly on components, but use some of your cash to build a company to compete with them please. I would so much rather you do that than that you listen to the likes of Carl iCahn and others of his ilk. Thank you.
Apple kicks ass because they don’t care how well Samsung does or who buys their phones.
It took me a while to get this, but Steve Jobs and Tim Cook keep repeating that they don’t worry about competition, just about making the best products for customers who want the best products.
If Apple falls behind after a misstep they might need to care about competition, until then getting the best components from whoever is the right way to go. If Apple builds better phones with Samsung components it isn’t like anyone is losing, and its only win for customers.
Of course! So obvious.
Apple has a lot of problems to overcome if it plans to switch to ambled screens.
AMOLED, of course!
Haha! I’m intrigued by the Ambled Screens, LOL, 😆.
New tech! ScrAmbled Screens!
There is no news in this article.
Few facts, either.
I skip ANY article with an attribution line of “Sources say”…cuz it’s ABB (at best bullshit) or FUD. Just head to the comments cuz that’s where all the coolest quips are on display….
I don’t believe any of this! 5″ iPhone? Not!
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I think LCD is old tech?
Why would Apple inc. reverse their modus operandi to yesteryear?
LCD is fragile and displays to much blur when objects move across the screen.
Me thinks that I will scratch my head on this one.
LCD is NOT old tech! People still make it, and it is still being put to good use!
Perhaps Moon Bo-gyeong might care to tell us what the resolution of these mythical 5″ iPhone screens will be ?
Until such time as Apple ships a resolution independent version of IOS, I think they will be staying with screens that are either the same resolution as existing screens, or a simple multiple, like double.
Unless a 5″ iPhone screen offered double the resolution of it’s predecessor, I think it’s just another guess from somebody who hasn’t got a clue.
Wow…what a surprise….not.
And what’s with the title? I clicked it thinking it would be about…you know…new display tech! Since when is a new size option…display tech? The whole thing is brain dead stuff.
Those sizes are bullshit.