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Looks like Apple will have to go back to Samsung..........Samsung is the only one who can supply enough quality panels at this point with a rapid shift in production. I also bet that Samsung already has pre-production displays with IGZO transistors in them already.
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Foot in mouth. See the PatentlyApple link where Sharp rejects Apple.
I'm a fan of Samsung displays and hate LG's. Sharp and Toshiba are right on the heals on Samsung... so I am excited for Sharp.
Actually, Sharp is right on the border of bankruptcy and Toshiba is in pretty bad shape, too.
Actually, Sharp is right on the border of bankruptcy and Toshiba is in pretty bad shape, too.
All the more reason to find a nice high demand client with buckets of cash and more as much production as needed to servicing them.
All the more reason to find a nice high demand client with buckets of cash and more as much production as needed to servicing them.
I am not interested in better quality since ip5 screen is already good enough but for the battery power it is curicial.
Wasn't there a rumor that Apple was giving Sharp a couple of billion dollars? That and the Sharp press release that products with Sharp IGZO panels will begin shipping in 2013. Add the rumor of a iPad 5 coming in 3 months and it looks like the pieces are coming together for Apple's 2013 iPad/iPhone lineup.
See the PatentlyApple article from today where Sharp has stopped supplying IGZO panels to Apple because the price was too low to make a profit.
If they stopped supplying IGZO panels, could that mean Apple now has a significant supply on hand for the iPad 5 or at least enough to only require a small number of IGZO panels from Samsung (if Samsung is allowed to produce IGZO panels)???
I doubt it. Sharp has been having a hard enough time as it is just to find enough cash for day to day operations.
And yes, Samsung can produce IGZO panels. The IGZO part are the transistors and Sharp did not invent them.
So, lately Android devices get the best hardware much sooner than Apple devices. Apple has not been able to switch to OLED for many years now. And now they can't even get LCD IZGO. That's a major disadvantage of Apple strategy - having only one device model automatically means that this is a mid-range model. New tech supplies are always limited.
What's the bet that Apple would use this technology to make the iphone thinner and lighter overall, rather than improving the battery life?
Err, it's more like the other way around.
IPS is superior to OLED and it's only recently that Android hardware is starting to switch from OLED to IPS. See the Nexus 4 compared to older Nexuses, HTC One X/DNA, the Nexus tablets and the Lumia 920 / HTC One 8 on the WP8 side.
The only major company still putting OLED in their flagships is Samsung (Galaxy SIII, Note 2, Galaxy Nexus) and those are the ones with displays that feel outdated now when you compare them to the competition. Reviews put down their (relatively) bad display and use of PenTile subpixel matrix and hopefully Samsung will switch to IPS like all others for the GS4.
Apple switching to OLED would be a huge step backwards considering that the iPhone 4 from 2.5 years ago still beat most OLED displays on so many levels.
Sounds good and thinner glass will probably be lighter but I hope Apple stops trying to make things thinner just for the sake of thin or for bragging rights. At some point it becomes counter productive.