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Apple Preparing to Use OLED Displays for iPhone and Computers?

thanks for the info on the OLED's. with what you guys have said it seems like it will be a great addition to apple's lineup. the only problem is going to be getting the life of the screen higher. as you guys said the blue is what they will have to improve on to make this possible.
 
kabunaru said:
Maybe that is why the 30" Cinema Display has not been updated yet?
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Haha, you think Apple's Cinema Displays are expensive now??? WOW that would cost a FORTUNE!

Yes Apple will go OLED in everything, starting with iPhone and iPod Touch THEN computers due to screen sizes, it is just a matter of time. Probably within the next few years for sure.

I could see not this new iPhone in June but the year after that being OLED!
 
MacFly123 said:
Haha, you think Apple's Cinema Displays are expensive now??? WOW that would cost a FORTUNE!
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I predict 30" OLED Cinema Display starting point price: $75,000.

Yes Apple will go OLED in everything, starting with iPhone and iPod Touch THEN computers due to screen sizes, it is just a matter of time. Probably within the next few years for sure.
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It's like SSD. First they were expensive, later they become cheaper.
I could see not this new iPhone in June but the year after that being OLED!
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Maybe or maybe not. Apple could take a gamble with making the next iPhone with OLED.
 
kabunaru said:
Maybe or maybe not. Apple could take a gamble with making the next iPhone with OLED.
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Apple JUST got the BOM (bill of materials) of the iPhone down when it introduced the iPhone 3G. They are NOT going to screw their margins now that they have such a nice BOM cost and production assembly going unless there is a second high end model with OLED that cost a lot more!
 
you nearly had me there, I was going to wait till june till buying my first macbook which is the £1125 unibody. Instead I will buy asap :p

Will be about 3 years before apple gets OLED into macbooks.
 
I have yet to see an OLED screen in person, but I've heard that they aren't so hot in sunlight. Have they improved this shortcoming yet?
 
I do think we will see OLED displays on the iPhone and even the Cinema Display by 2012.

The reason is simple: dramatically lower power consumption compared to current LCD displays. OLED displays even use much less power than LCD displays with LED backlighting! :D

Given that the Obama Adminstration is very receptive to much more restrictive standards for power consumption in consumer electronics, this will drive the technological progress towards better and larger OLED displays.
 
Even though it'll be years before we see OLEDs in iPhone or monitor screens (at a price we can afford), it would be fabulous if Apple offered it.

Wizard: would you name which cell phones already have OLED? I'd be curious to take a look at them in whichever store they're being displayed at.
BTW, if the only phones that have OLED screens are not widely available, then, imo, your post was irrelevant. What's the point of mentioning phones with OLED screens if they're not available for dissemination?
 
Overcoming the limited lifetime of the panel will be the most important thing. Could work fine for phones to start. I believe there have been companies showing OLED phones already.
 
It's very likely we will see OLED iPhone and iPod Touch this year as other phone manufacturers are also putting OLED phones to the market this year.
But OLED notebooks or monitors? I think they are still very expensive, and we won't see OLED notebook for at least 3 more years.
 
That-Is-Bull said:
$99 flip phone with full-color OLED main/external displays from two and a half years ago. That's pretty much all I could find on the first page of a Google search though.
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Thanks for that link. The reason I asked was because I suspect the phones with OLED have very tiny screens, in comparison to the iPhone's. I was curious to see if there was an OLED phone with the screen real estate of the iPhone.
The main reason I want to know? I'm curious how much Apple will have to ream us for an OLED screen (and you know they will). :eek:
 
robanga said:
Overcoming the limited lifetime of the panel will be the most important thing. Could work fine for phones to start. I believe there have been companies showing OLED phones already.
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I think that, plus the fact OLED panels require a completely different production process than backlit LCD panels, is the reason why we haven't seen much progress in OLED displays up till this point. However, the fact that governments around the world like the idea of OLED's very low power consumption means we may see possible governmental help in terms of either financial assistance or tax incentives to develop improvements that will make OLED panels last as long as current LCD panels and build larger OLED panels. Don't be surprised we see reasonably-priced OLED panels in 19" widescreen (1440x900), 20" widescreen (1680x1050) and 24" (1920x1200) sizes by 2011.

We may see 40-50" widescreen 1920x1080 resolution OLED TV's by 2012, but don't expect it to be paper thin; they will probably be about 5-6 mm thick for structural integrity reasons on such a big panel.
 
Do OLED displays flicker?

OLED in a MacBook Nano before MacBook Pro or Air? That would be ridiculous.
 
olternaut said:
Either he doesn't know what an OLED is or he simply hit the wrong button.
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What I find pathetic though are the number who mark stories as negative and can never be bothered actually constructively writing in reply to the story as to why it is a negative.
 
pdurrant said:
Consider that the Sony OLED 11" TV costs around $2000 at the moment.

I think it'll be a few years yet before we see OLED Macs or monitors from Apple.
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Actually the margin on most OLED TV's is pretty high. For example a 42" or 50" OLED TV at a local best buy will sell for around $4,000, but the price that Best Buy pays for it is generally under $2,000. While for contrast most LCD and Plasma displays sell retail for about $2,000 and it costs best buy in some cases more than what they sell it for, or otherwise a couple hundred dolars less. The reason there is such a discrepency in prices is that the manufacturers don't want to run there LCD and Plasma lines out of business.
 
inteljoe said:
While for contrast most LCD and Plasma displays sell retail for about $2,000 and it costs best buy in some cases more than what they sell it for, or otherwise a couple hundred dolars less. The reason there is such a discrepency in prices is that the manufacturers don't want to run there LCD and Plasma lines out of business.
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i was a CEM manager for Best Buy and believe we very very very rarely sold LCD and Plasma's for a loss. in the 2.5 years i worked there we sold 2 for a loss but they both had service plans and install service on them so we ended up making money, otherwise we would not have sold them for a loss. the only thing we sold for a loss on a regular basis was the rear projection TV's. because they are useless hahaha
 
Well, if OLED screens are thinner and use less battery life, that lets apple either put in a bigger battery/more chips, or make the device thinner. I think I know which one they'll choose, but hopefully we'll get some more battery life out of this all too.
 
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Lutris said:
Ars Technica had a piece recently about how the poor economy has slowed progress in OLED manufacturing research -- none of the manufacturers want to pay for expensive new fabs and the current LCD fabs aren't well suited for OLED production.
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Which is sad, because smart companies like Apple know that a down economy is the best time to invest in emerging tech. Which it looks to be exactly what they are doing. This is good news, though the results are a few years out.
 
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