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Apple 'Aggressively Testing' OLED Displays From China's BOE for 2020 iPhone Lineup
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I really dont want oled though... I hope the screens in the XR continue on. My friends phone uses oled and it has some pretty rough screen burn
True - you don't need to buy a new phone every year. However, they are time-bombed either by HW or SW in the devices.
Same here. My only disappointment with my iPhone X is the OLED display. I much preferred the LCD panel in my 6+, being a photographer and fussy about color.
Apple why give us the chinese garbage just so you can save a buck or two what ever happened to putting the customer first and providing a quality product.
I kind of suspect the exact opposite. I think they don't know, and want to find out. Which is why they're testing what BOE has on offer.
Of course, that goes without saying. I do believe at this point in time Apple has quite a bit of information which is leading them to take the next step.
Maybe Tim Apple will realize that Apple can shorten those 5 years to 4 years. They're doing so with the iPhone 6 and no support for iOS 13. Will help to get those people into a newer iPhone.
Or maybe Apple will mirror Android One and only guarantee OS updates for 2 years and bug fixes and security updates for 3 years, then charge people something like $2.99 per month if they want OS updates and bug fixes and security updates beyond that. Another way for Apple to grow their Services business.
Does your iPhone X unit have a burn-in? Been thinking of getting the XS Max when the new iPhones arrive. I’m worried about this burn-in issues on OLED.
I have owned a lot of Samsung devices and no burn in .... my one year old iPhone X has zero as well.... the burn in issue is overblown unless you kee brightness high and static images a lot
Lol ... I’ll go back to Android if they did that. By that time my Apple Watch wouldn’t be working anyways and not tied to Apple
I suspect LCD will be the main focus until Micro-led is ready, which would be another 3-5 years as a guesstimate. I think there are so many other improvements with the iPad that Apple has made and will continue to make, but I’m not sure that OLED needs to be one of them for the iPad. However, if Apple can align the appropriate suppliers that produce quality OLED panels, then obviously that could be a changing factor for the iPad.
We can't comment on a product that doesn't exist yet, but I don't think it would be a wise move to be linked to another Chinese company, considering the political situation
Sure, but all that aside, I want OLED in my iPad
Micro-LED strikes me as one of those technologies that is perpetually 3-5 years away from consumer primetime. Much like the unicorn batteries that will allegedly replace Li-Ion in "five years" but never materialise.
I realise that Micro-LED is already a thing and will likely go to mass market eventually, but in the meantime...well yeah...I want OLED in my iPad
Unless it's a pretty good Chinese knockoff of #1 Samsung OLED I wonder how it ranks quality wise relative to others like upcoming JDI OLED which should be top notch as all things Japanese and distant LG with them repeating issues from early generation OLED from seven years ago like dark blotches on grey background.
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Not sure if this will amount to anything.
Apple already had the second OLED supplier, LG, and it didn't work out as LG's screen yield rate wasn't high enough to be used in production and was used for iPhone screen repairs only.
BOE has same problem as LG's, even worse than LG's perhaps.
No one really knows what Samsung's doing to keep its OLED yield rate at 80% while LG and BOE struggle at single digit.
The very fact that the large TV sized OLED king LG would struggle at phone sized OLED screen, while the phone sized OLED king Samsung would struggle at TV sized OLED tells you something, they are fundamentally different technologies.
Apple already had the second OLED supplier, LG, and it didn't work out as LG's screen yield rate wasn't high enough to be used in production and was used for iPhone screen repairs only.
BOE has same problem as LG's, even worse than LG's perhaps.
No one really knows what Samsung's doing to keep its OLED yield rate at 80% while LG and BOE struggle at single digit.
The very fact that the large TV sized OLED king LG would struggle at phone sized OLED screen, while the phone sized OLED king Samsung would struggle at TV sized OLED tells you something, they are fundamentally different technologies.
