Apple Adopting OLED Displays for All Three 2019 iPhones

[DakotaGuy]

The reason we aren't seeing any 2018 iPhone X rumors is because it will be a marginal upgrade over the current iPhone X. 2019 is when the main refresh will be.

I think you’ll just see an iPhone 9 and iPhone 9 Plus which are basically upgraded 8’s and an iPhone 11 with a new model added an iPhone 11 Plus. It would be best for profitability to continue to add models slowly so the company can get repeat upgraders each year. That business model has worked well for the iPhone. Don’t give your customers everything they want at once.

 

[Ambrose Chapel]

This seems strange. Assuming that the 2018 6.1" iPhone only exists to get the iPhone X form factor without the additional cost of OLED, why would it then adopt OLED next year?

 

[Jsameds]

lol at all of you guessing what a dead guy would have done as if you knew him personally.

I'm sick of this behaviour, it's pathetic.

 

[slimtastic]

I think you’ll just see an iPhone 9 and iPhone 9 Plus which are basically upgraded 8’s and an iPhone 11 with a new model added an iPhone 11 Plus. It would be best for profitability to continue to add models slowly so the company can get repeat upgraders each year. That business model has worked well for the iPhone. Don’t give your customers everything they want at once.

Pretty much. Plus there isn't all that much new this year that they could release. And it takes time to (properly) implement good features and new technology.

 

[nviz22]

Shrugs shoulders.

 

[thenewyorkgod]

Is it all three 2019 phones with OLED or 2 out of three?

 

[I7guy]

This is what he would say about Apple today:

The book came after the interview, so I’m going with what he wrote in the book.

As far as lcd vs oled, please have an lcd model for sale that is a true flagship.

 

[tooloud10]

Be serious man, these excuses are getting ridiculous. It's literally a cut into the screen.

That would be true only if you somehow believed that there would be screen in the area of the notch if the notch didn't exist.

Yeah it's not like they couldn't have simply used a full top bezel

How is making the usable screen space smaller a better solution than the notch?

or provide a software alternative to hide the notch for people that don't like it because believe it of not everybody is like you.

So your beef is that the 'ears' have an active background color? If they pretended to hide it with a black background color, wouldn't the usable screen space look weird with rounded corners on the bottom and 90deg corners on the top?

If you think the excuses for the notch are ridiculous, look at how flimsy the excuses against the notch are. The notch must exist in one way or another--the narrow notch we have now, or the full width notch/bezel that we had before. Nobody has provided a very convincing argument for why the notch shouldn't be there.

 

[EvilEvil]

Is Apple going to get rid of the hideous notch?

There's actual rumors they are.

 

[morjesta]

Do phones really need OLED displays? Something that expensive on something so fragile?

 

[Col4bin]

Is Apple going to get rid of the hideous notch?

Not until the next iPhone form-factor refresh in 2020

That notch is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
[doublepost=1527610484][/doublepost]I need that iPhone X Plus. Come to daddy!
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Hopefully this means the fixed the issues with the OLED panel on iPhone X...

Curious what issues?

 

[I7guy]

Not until the next iPhone form-factor refresh in 2020

That notch is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
[doublepost=1527610484][/doublepost]I need that iPhone X Plus. Come to daddy!
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Curious what issues?

THe issues referred to are headaches, eye strain and color shifting.

 

[decsramble]

More importantly, what that price?

I believe Apple's new pricing model is "If you have to ask you cant afford it".

 

[cocky jeremy]

Is Apple going to get rid of the hideous notch?

Who cares? It's a nonissues. Ask anyone that ACTUALLY owns a X.

 

[Michael Goff]

Can't you detect sarcasm?

Not on MacRumors, where people actually say Apple is on the decline with a straight face.

EXACTLY! Just like 'some' of MacRumors readers said that Apple was dead when they released the iPod!!! Oh my days - a computer company releasing a music player. How desperate
And just look what developed since and how the digital world changed
[doublepost=1527589257][/doublepost]I can't stand some of the negativity on this site. Hey, if you don't like the iPhone X, the notch, the screen - easy, make and design your own since you are such experts or go back 15 years and stick with your Nokia 3210!

Some humans are so greedy and unappreciative!

I guess Apple is perpetually doomed.

 

[decsramble]

2017 iPhones - 2 LCD 1 OLED
2018 rumoured iPhones - 1 LCD 2 OLED
2019 rumoured rumoured iPhones - 0 LCD 3 OLED
Well the math checks out so the "analysts" must be right

 

[MICHAELSD]

Not until the next iPhone form-factor refresh in 2020

That notch is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
[doublepost=1527610484][/doublepost]I need that iPhone X Plus. Come to daddy!
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Curious what issues?

Look up the eye strain thread in the iPhone sub-forum

 

[alphaswift]

Actually, Steve would've been fine with this. I checked the book and everything.

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You sir, are Awesome. Yes, that capitalization is correct.

 

[gaximus]

Is Apple going to get rid of the hideous notch?

The notch doesn't bother me because the edge of the screen is the same distance around the entire phone (excluding the notch). Which make the phone look amazing, its a pretty clever illusion, I've never met anyone IRL that sees the notch as distracting or even noticing it. Its up where status bar used to be.
What does bother me is the other phones that have the notch and a chin, it totally break symmetry, and looks just plain ugly where the top corners are closer to the edge than the bottom corners.

 

[AngerDanger]

You sir, are Awesome. Yes, that capitalization is correct.

The title caps?

Edit: I gotcha.

 

[jimmy_uk]

Actually, Steve would've been fine with this. I checked the book and everything.

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Superb!

 

[koruki]

For the love of God. Please make the new SE full screen like the X. I’d pay $1000 for that little beauty! Who’s with me!?

I'm with you, I been with you for years now. Pack the latest hardware into the SE, I'll pay stupid prices

 

[jimmy_uk]

I'm with you, I been with you for years now. Pack the latest hardware into the SE, I'll pay stupid prices

Won't the smaller size but with a bigger OLED display and face ID mean there is compromise elsewhere, like a smaller battery for example? Stands to reason if your cramming in more tech into the SE body.

 

[farewelwilliams]

I remember reading rumors about the 2019 iPhone getting rid of the notch though. Of course it’s just a rumor but if Apple were to give the iPhone another design change in 2019 then wouldn’t it be only natural for them to get rid of the notch? Clearly notch isn’t “the future”. If Apple really believes that it is, then they should bring the notch to the iPad as well as MacBooks & iMacs, which I hope they don’t.

shrink notch? sure. removing notch completely? unlikely in that short amount of time. unless they have a motorized camera/pop out but that might be too odd for Apple's design language.

 

[cmaier]

Right, Apple has finally delivered us from the scourge of screen symmetry.

I don’t think “symmetry” means what you think it means.
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OLED? So Apple is abandoning Micro LED? They spent a lot of money acquiring that technology.

Just not ready by 2019.