Companies who have been engineering OLEDs for years, like LG, can't even build Samsung quality OLEDs, yet you think Apple's first mobile
phone sized OLED magically surpasses LG and catches up yo Samsung?
This is the highest resolution mobile
phone sized OLED ever demonstrated, and it exactly matches the highest resolution LCD - Sharp's 5.5» 806 PPI IGZO panel unveiled in 2015.
Not exact matches
A report from Ming - Chi Kuo, a highly respected Apple analyst at KGI Securities, indicates that 2018 will probably bring three new
phones, a 5.8
OLED model of the iPhone X, a plus -
sized iPhone X with a 6.5 - inch
OLED screen and 6.1 inch LCD model.
The Galaxy S6 edge + display is similar to the Note 5, with the same screen
size and resolution, but it has a curved screen
OLED display that is manufactured on a flexible plastic substrate so that it can bend around the corners on both the sides of the
phone to provide two display areas that can be viewed and controlled from both the front or the sides, which is especially useful for viewing notifications and scrolling news items, and also as a dim night clock on a beside table.
The Galaxy Note8 is Samsung's newest flagship Smartphone with the latest most advanced state - of - the - art Flexible
OLED Display together with a radical new Full Display Screen design that fills almost the entire front face of the
phone, providing a significantly larger display without increasing the
size of the
phone.
Screen
Size Talk: Apple made the switch to
OLED for the iPhone X while still using LCD screens on the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, in part to differentiate the
phones but also because
OLED panels were in short supply.
As the next iPhone event nears, no other company is capable of producing
phone -
sized OLED displays at the same scale and consistency as Samsung.
We don't see any further mention here about just what kind of
phone we should expect from Apple's first
OLED model, and nothing about it coming in with a big 5.8 - inch screen
size — just that it could launch next year, rather than in 2018.
«We expect the iPhones this fall to be largely unchanged for the
OLED versions although
size changes have proved to be a catalyst in the past,» Mohan wrote, «Our checks also suggest that Apple is working with suppliers on a foldable
phone (that potentially could double up as a tablet) for launch in 2020.»
With the use of
OLED technology, Apple can significantly reduce the bezels, which in turn will allow them to launch
phones with bigger screens, but with the same relative
size compared with the old generation of iPhones.
Screen: The 5.8 - inch
OLED screen on the iPhone X is technically Apple's biggest, even if the
phone size is smaller than the 5.5 - inch iPhone 8 Plus.
The
phone's body could be made out of aluminum with an
OLED display similar in
size to the 5.5 - inch iPhone.