“Samsung has signed a deal with Apple to supply an annual 100 million OLED panels from the second quarter of next year for three years,” Lee Ji-yoon reports for The Korea Herald.
““For now, Samsung is the only company that meets Apple’s strict product criteria,” Lee reports. “But considering its strategy of having multiple suppliers, LG and other display makers could share a fraction of the orders,” said Lee Choong-hoon, president and chief analyst of UBI Research, at a seminar for those in the industry and investors on Friday.
“He predicted an OLED iPhone with a curved screen would debut in 2018, saying OLED models would make up 30 percent or 100 million units of total iPhone shipments in the year and the figure could surge to 80 percent by 2020,” Lee reports. “‘By 2021, Apple could outpace Samsung in terms of OLED adoption,’ [Lee said].”
“Samsung’s decision to supply OLED to its archrival also indicates that the world’s largest smartphone maker sees no breakthrough in its slowing phone sales, the top analyst added,” Lee reports. “‘OLED panels have differentiated Samsung phones from their rivals in the market. If Galaxy phones were selling well, the company would have not decided to supply OLED screens to Apple,’ he said. ”
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“While the 30% figure could be explained by Apple launching its new iPhones late in the year, the ‘80% by 2020’ number would mean Apple continuing to manufacture some new models with the older IPS LCD screen tech for some time to come,” Ben Lovejoy writes for 9to5Mac. “One possibility is that only the Plus models would get the OLED screen. It was notable that a recent Samsung report referred only to 5.5-inch display panels, with no mention of smaller ones.”
“There have been a number of indications that Apple may be planning increasing divergence between the smaller and larger iPhone models,” Lovejoy writes. “In the iPhone 6/6s, the only difference in features between the two is the optical image stabilization, but KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has said that the iPhone 7 Plus will benefit from a dual-camera setup while the standard iPhone 7 won’t.”
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MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote on Saturday about the iPhone 7 Plus’ exclusive dual-camera feature:
Apple’s 5.5-inch (or larger) flagship iPhone is about to get even flagshippier!
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Apple patent application reveals new dual camera zoom lens system – January 7, 2016