I was wondering the same thing. I guess we get to wait and see.
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Oh please bring these to the iPhone. The amount of awesome stuff you can do with these things to improve the phones battery life, using it in the sunlight, and individually lighting up pixels? Forgeddaboudit.
What's interesting is I saw mock ups of an iPhone with an edge display made from the mentioned patents long before Samsung came out with one. They are always trolling Apple ideas and trying to beat them to market.I guess Apple is going to call it iPhone 7s EDGE with Retina Display and claimed some ******** innovations crap using Jony Ive's video to claim that they are the first to actually introduce phones with curved display..
I've got the S7 Edge and I agree, the edges are largely useless. You can swipe to show the add "mini-apps" or launchers plus other things but nothing that you can't access easily anyway. The only thing that is quite nice is the night-time clock (love the always on display) because it's on one of the edges and you can glance at the time if the phone's on its side and at a similar height to your head.
The rest of the phone is great though, coming from an ex-iPhone 5s user.
Please no curved display! Most of us have cases and curved displays are just a gimmick. Unless Apple manages to find a unique UI and implementation then I hope they will stay away from it. All the curved ones on the market are just a joke.
So, either different approach or stick to what we have now and evolve something else
So, either different approach or stick to what we have now and evolve something else
If we get a redesigned iPhone next year, it won't be called 7S. It will be called iPhone 8 or maybe iPhone X (tenth anniversary model).
Hmm.
Apple sold 230 million high end phones last year.
Samsung sold 60 million high end phones last year.
Hmm....guess it pays to be a 'follower'
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Apple CEO blasts OLEDs as inferior tech – independent research shows he has a point
Joel Hruska on February 12, 2013 at 2:20 pm
- long way since it launched the Galaxy S in 2010; the Galaxy S3’s screen is superior to the S1 in multiple respects.
Compare the Galaxy S3 against the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5, however, and the OLED technology doesn’t shine as bright. That’s literally true, in this case — Samsung capped maximum brightness sharply, apparently in an attempt to reduce power consumption. Even so, the Galaxy S3 draws more power than either of the iPhones, both in absolute terms (1.3W at peak brightness vs. 0.42W for the iPhone 4 and 0.74W for the iPhone 5) and when normalized for a 4-inch display.
The color gamut on the S3 series is substantially larger than the sRGB standard, which results in inaccurate color (a too-large color gamut actually hurts color reproduction more than a restricted gamut). The screen is hard to read in bright light due to the brightness cap. The S3’s color spectrum is shaped quite differently from the other three devices, which contributes to the saturation problem.
Light spectrum emitted by OLED vs. LCD displays. The sharp peaks contribute to the saturation issues. Image from Displaymate
The power efficiency findings may surprise people, given that OLED technology is often touted as being more efficient than other types of displays, not less. It’s absolutely true that under certain circumstances, OLEDs sip power while LCDs gulp it. The problem for OLEDs is that their maximum brightness settings can draw considerably more power than LCDs, particularly in daylight. (See: Electrowetting displays: Brighter than LCD, lower-power, and daylight readable.)
Samsung is heavily committed to its OLED roadmap and we expect the gap between the technologies to narrow as manufacturing improves, but Cook’s comments aren’t just one executive sniping at another from a high-profile platform. As gorgeous as OLED displays can be, they still require proper calibration. In the power-constrained world of smartphones, an OLED display may not always be the best option, particularly when compared to high-end LCDs manufactured with IGZO or LTPS (low temperature poly silicon)."
That's from 2013, though. It's 2016 now and OLED displays are widely regarded as being more efficient (except for when displaying pure white), brighter, more vibrant, less reflective, and just as accurate as LCD displays are. There's a reason the S7/S7 Edge have been tested and reviewed by DisplayMate as having the best smartphone displays. Putting my iPhone 6s Plus's display next to the the S7's OLED display and the difference is staggering. Everything looks so much better on the S7's display.
I compared pictures, web pages, etc. and had it set to the most color accurate mode and saw no difference in terms of color between the images display on both screens, but on the S7's display everything really popped out at you and was overall more vibrant and better looking. It's hard to explain without seeing it in person, but after seeing them side by side it's clear that Apple has fallen behind in terms of display quality (that's not to say Apple's displays are bad; they're not... they just aren't as good as current OLED displays). I really hope they move up the adoption to OLED to the iPhone 7 instead of next year's iPhone.
I agree, but with the iPhone 7 being in the Tick cycle and if the rumours are to be believed then we have -
- No antenna bands / at least colour match so it won't come to notice
- Thinner duh! lol
- No more headphone jack
- Possibly waterproof
- Possibly inductive charging
Edit - as others had posted, I believe next year Apple is going all out with 10th anniversary so this could very much be the 6SS, as in tick-tock-knock-tick
I'm purely just speculating so don't take it seriously
Why?
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Based on all of the rumors, this year's iPhone will look very similar to the 6s and a more significant redesign is in the cards for 2017, which also will include the debut of OLED/mLED in an iPhone.
Yea but rumours are not always true, we will soon see when leaks start appearing closer to the time. To be fair there isn't much more they can do, the shape is going to stay the same, maybe make it thinner, lighter and move the antena bands and remove the headphone jack, that will look different enough from the 6 and be classed as a redesign.
And now where are the members saying LCD is superior and Apple is not copying Samsung?
I was replying to the dude who said Apple is doing a good job following Samsung.
My reply is to show that Apple is blowing the doors off of Samsung. Why would Apple be following if they are annihilating Samsung in sales.
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And now where are the members saying LCD is superior and Apple is not copying Samsung?
So Samsung invented OLED now?
Seriously. You should just go to SamsungRumors.com instead.
I don't know why I even waste my time talking about Samsung. Apple is totally destroying Samsung and has them castrated. Samsung is dust compared to Apple at this point.
Things 'popping out' as you say is really the opposite of accurate. I don't know about you but when I walk around the real world i rarely see colors 'popping out'. I think that's the main complaint about OLED. Stuff just looks fake, regardless of what the tests say. Grass and the sky is just way too radioactive looking. Things just look way more real on the iPhone.
I would take Displaymates reviews with a grain of salt. They make alot of their revenue from Samsung advertising. Just one look at their website and you know they know very little about real technology. Their website looks straight from 1998.
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Please no curved display! Most of us have cases and curved displays are just a gimmick. Unless Apple manages to find a unique UI and implementation then I hope they will stay away from it. All the curved ones on the market are just a joke.
So, either different approach or stick to what we have now and evolve something else
Ah, but them being curved makes them MUCH easier to lay face down on the concrete and stand on, to snap that junk in half.
I dunno why this rumor keeps on shifting, but what makes MOST sense & the way I originally heard it is thusly:
1)Apple iPhone 7 comes in September 2016 (as expected) looks fairly similar to iPhone 6/6S w/ no audio jack, dual speakers, & slightly thinner with less noticeable antenna banding
2)Apple iPhone 7S comes in September 2017 (as expected) & looks IDENTICAL to 7 (like every other "S" iteration)
3)at some unknown time in 2017, a NEW iPhone designated "Pro" comes out with curved screen, etc. features that make it stand out as a different beast than 7/7S.
When you take time to learn how Apple behave, learn how to read them and their patterns and adoption of things that really only make sense because those things fit a need to make the product more refined and simple to use, you get to the point (pretty early on if you're half sharp) where you understand that they don't adopt bleeding edge components just because the rest of the tech world thinks they're "hip" - Apple will have to have a rational, solid and defendable reason to use some component which is to replace the other component that has served them well for years.
Apple are about iteratively refining their products, not creating short lived show stopping gasps that peak for a month and then trough hard from then on. Usability and experience are key, not wow factor and spec upgrades for the sake of them.
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I have zero desire for a phone with a screen that wraps to the sides. It might look spiffy, but it's useless. I also have zero desire for a phone without a headphone jack. If both these "features" arrive in an iPhone 7 or 8, you can count me out. Glad I already bought a 6s.