5.4” iPhone is the most exciting iPhone news since 2014 for me.
I wouldn’t be so sure the base iPhone 12 models will get the newer design language. Usually Apple keeps the past year’s design on lower models, while adding a newer design to the flagships. This assures they don’t put all their eggs in one basket.
Personally I would love the flat edges in a 5.4 inch package, but I don’t have my hopes up.
I'd be concerned about initially poor quality control pass rate.
This news makes you wonder if third parties like Amazon drop the price on the iPhone 11 Pro in the new year (as the Xs has been running at some really decent money off until recently) that there would be a decision to make for buyers looking at iPhone 12.
The 11 Pro uses the Samsung panel as far as I know.
This is how Apple trying to squeeze profit Might have backfired... Everyone in the industry knows BOE is not yet a reliable player in OLED market yet... just go with Korean suppliers!
This is no surprise. In both my experience and according to hardware test sites, BOE makes the lowest quality LCDs among all primary component manufacturers.
So people believe the iPhone is made in USA?If Samsung is the only supplier, they can charge Apple any amount for the screen (until Apple doesn’t make a profit) because the iPhone is dependent on them as a supplier. 2 or more suppliers allows Apple negotiating power. As long as the quality control standards are high, it doesn’t matter who the manufacturer is. It seems like Apple is keeping the standards high given how hard it has been for other companies to make Apple OLED displays at high yield.
You would? Are you a materials or quality control engineer? Do you even know what it means to fail QC, or whether it is normal at this stage of pre-production?
Hopefully this doesn’t delay things even further because I can’t wait even more time to use a modern-looking and feeling iPhone that fits into my hand since the 5s
The BOE panels were not meant for the flagship Pro models. If a company could use cheaper parts at a quality good enough, they of course they will.
Yes, they want to make the best quality phone but that quality depends on the price.
Seems like you chose to ignore the actual point of the story, that Apple declined them.Everyone in the industry seems to agree Samsung currently makes the very best panels on the market.
Apple wants to make the best quality phone they can, as they keep saying.
So let's cheap out and use non Samsung panels as we can get some cheaper by someone else, as long as they are "good enough"
Sorry, but I don't like that thinking, esp when you consider the GIANT markup Apple puts on all the components anyway.
Seems like you chose to ignore the actual point of the story, that Apple declined them.
Probably people believe Apple designs it’s product in the USA and has someone else manufacture them to its specifications.So people believe the iPhone is made in USA?
Oops. Sorry about that. Transcribing all those 6's in the other sizes crept into the 5. This should be pretty close to the SE 2020 ( iPhone 8 ) size.
Made in China lol
I am genuinely curious why it seems to be that all electronic manufacturing HAS to be made in China? I realize OLED is intensive manufacturing, but is it so dependent on the cheap labor there? Are there hard reasons why OLED cannot be manufactured in Michigan or Tijuana or Santiago?
I am genuinely curious why it seems to be that all electronic manufacturing HAS to be made in China? I realize OLED is intensive manufacturing, but is it so dependent on the cheap labor there? Are there hard reasons why OLED cannot be manufactured in Michigan or Tijuana or Santiago?