Forbes - iPhone Could Get OLED Screen

[ped]

What do you guys think now?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabe...ed-screen-with-samsunguniversal-display-deal/

A new deal between Korean electronics giant Samsung and display maker Universal Display could bring advanced screens to a much broader swathe of mobile devices, including Apple’s iPhone, says analyst Jamie Townsend of TownHall Investment Research.

The technology in question is called OLED, short for organic light emitting diode. Compared to other display technologies, OLED was designed to be thinner, lighter and more energy-efficient and deliver brighter colors and sharper images.

Due to some unique advantages, including ownership of its own display manufacturing unit and access to stockpiles of necessary materials, Samsung has largely monopolized mobile OLED displays for more than two years. The company’s enormous appetite for the displays – Samsung is the largest provider of cellphones in the U.S. and the second-largest globally – has meant other gadget makers had to do without. HTC was reportedly forced to switch from Samsung-supplied OLED screens to Sony displays in 2010 after a Samsung OLED shortage threatened HTC phone production and sales.

Townsend says Samsung’s August 23rd deal with New Jersey-based Universal Display should make OLED technology easier to obtain. The agreement, which involves Samsung’s Mobile Display company, calls for the licensing of Universal Display’s technologies and the sale of its proprietary materials to Samsung through the end of 2017.

 

[saving107]

It contradicts what was just reported on 3 days ago

Apple Reportedly Still Uninterested in OLED Technology for iOS Devices and Potential Televisions
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/2...gy-for-ios-devices-and-potential-televisions/

 

[boss.king]

What do you guys think now?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabe...ed-screen-with-samsunguniversal-display-deal/

“We believe that Apple has seriously considered using OLEDs in its iPhone but declined over manufacturing concerns,” writes Townsend.

The article is grasping at straws. Apple could technically put OLED displays in their 2012 iPhone, but they could just as easily put a stun gun on the end of it. Just because they can doesn't mean they will.

 

[echo2011]

they could just as easily put a stun gun on the end of it.

iPhone 911, Police edition.

 

[Gjwilly]

OLED is horrible in direct sunlight.
Not going to happen in an iPhone.

 

[xavierpunkreno]

Yeah because the iPhone looks great in sunlight as is.

 

[Gjwilly]

Yeah because the iPhone looks great in sunlight as is.

If that was sarcasm then you must never have seen an OLED screen.
The iPhone in sunlight is an order of magnitude better than an OLED screen.

 

[Merkie]

OLED is horrible in direct sunlight.
Not going to happen in an iPhone.

It's 2011, not 2009.

 

[moargolems]

NOLED for iPhone.