iPhone Unlikely to Adopt AMOLED Display in Foreseeable Future

[Rogifan]

Saying Apple will release a 12.9 inch iPad is a pretty accurate guess.

There's nothing in this report that suggests he has any inside information. He's speculating based on something Foxconn is rumored to be doing.

 

[John Mcgregor]

Never bothered with any smart watches - but I did see Galaxy S6 and it was markedly worse than 6S. I can kind of understand the desire for additional brightness, but not the dreadful oversaturated colours.

And app UI looks cartoonish. That's the worst for me. Same app looks much better on iPhone.

 

[dannyyankou]

There's nothing in this report that suggests he has any inside information. He's speculating based on something Foxconn is rumored to be doing.

Never said he has inside information, but his research is very good and usually accurate, so that's why his research notes are posted here often. It's a good roundup of what to suspect.

 

[69Mustang]

Apple should stick with LCDs for as long as AMOLED still has horrible colour reproduction and fake number of pixels. I much prefer seeing natural colours and not oversaturated mess.

This post is all kinds of wrong. AMOLED has excellent color reproduction (wasn't always the case). What the heck does "fake number of pixels" mean? Seriously, what does that mean.

I've never seen an Apple Watch so I don't know how they look but you are saying they have horrible color reproduction and fake number of pixels? Glad I didn't buy on then.

The Apple watch has an absolutely beautiful screen. Trust me, the post you're quoting is not a justification for not purchasing an Apple watch. There are justifications, but that ain't one of 'em.

Strange. I've never heard people here comment on how the Apple Watch is, in your words, "an oversaturated mess, with a fake number of pixels."

Quote reputation of old AMOLED tech - check
Create new term - fake number of pixels - check
Cause 69Mustang to unnecessarily fixate on fake number of pixels - check and check.

Please punch me. It's stuck in my head like humming "Alouette, gentille alouette..."

 

[John Mcgregor]

This post is all kinds of wrong. AMOLED has excellent color reproduction (wasn't always the case). What the heck does "fake number of pixels" mean? Seriously, what does that mean.

I prefer colours on IPS panels. Amoled looks fake to me.

 

[cababah]

Yay! More uneven backlighting!

 

[bladerunner2000]

That's very innovative.

 

[nikicampos]

All about profit margins...

You do know that Apple is a company, companies make money.

 

[0928001]

Here comes the world class stupid fanboys who think this is the best move for consumers.
AMOLED is just perfect... You can't compare to LCD right now. We're are being forced to use inferior technology because Apple doesn't want to give Samsung more money.

Brilliant reasoning there. Nothing but personal opinion; no factual evidence for support. Like an 11 year old, name-calls users who disagree.

This post reminds me of the "more cores" argument that Android users commonly insult Apple users with. Just straight up mis-informed.

 

[teknikal90]

So much technology for texting, gps, facebook, instagram and snapchat. I mean, leisure at its best.
In 10 or 15 years this period will be remembered as "the time when technology was used to do this stupid things".

I still have my iPhone 5 and I haven't seen anything that requires me to switch to a new phone AND I work as a general manager in a multichannel network.

I agree.
Since the iPhone 5, improvements were incremental.
The only thing that arguably isnt, is NFC +TouchID supported Apple Pay. Even then, it's still not something that is superbly groundbreaking.

 

[nikicampos]

Here comes the world class stupid fanboys who think this is the best move for consumers.
AMOLED is just perfect... You can't compare to LCD right now. We're are being forced to use inferior technology because Apple doesn't want to give Samsung more money.

Calling people "stupid" because they don't think the way you do it's just pathetic, and no, no one is "forcing" you, if you love AMOLED so much and is all you care about, easy, switch to Samsung.

 

[street.cory]

Makes me sad. I feel like Galaxy screens look so much better than iPhones.

Samsung displays always seem like they have a blue tinge to me.

 

[danckwerts]

So much technology for texting, gps, facebook, instagram and snapchat. I mean, leisure at its best.
In 10 or 15 years this period will be remembered as "the time when technology was used to do this stupid things".

I still have my iPhone 5 and I haven't seen anything that requires me to switch to a new phone AND I work as a general manager in a multichannel network.

Well said!

 

[Luis Mazza]

Brilliant reasoning there. Nothing but personal opinion; no factual evidence for support. Like an 11 year old, name-calls users who disagree.

This post reminds me of the "more cores" argument that Android users commonly insult Apple users with. Just straight up mis-informed.

Yet you fail miserably in providing any useful "factual evidence", besides giving your own personal observations. Good luck with the kids!

 

[Zorn]

This is far and away the only, single thing that makes me just a little bit jealous of Android phones. I want nothing to do with that OS or ecosystem, but man, once you look at an AMOLED screen, it's just beautiful.

 

[Tech198]

go LCD

Why should Apple switch to Amoled in the phone if they don't even do in in their laptops.

Good for Amoled save more battery since dark pixels don't use any battery power, so it all equals up to better life overall, i guess having an iphone brightness dim would probably achieve roughly the same result anyway.

(edits: dam Auto-correct doesn't know the word Amoled... well that's Apple for ya)

...or in my case never wake for phone up for a few days

 

[StevieD100]

That's a shame, current-generation AMOLED screens look excellent. As great as Apple's current LCD screens are – and they are very good – they simply cannot match the black levels of AMOLED. To me black level is one of the most important criteria for display. It's the primary reason my 9 year old Pioneer Kuro plasma still looks amazing even compared to new tvs today.

For an awful lot of users it does not matter. I don't watch Movies or Videos on my iPhone. So for me it really makes no difference (as if it would for my 60+ year old eyes...). I have a lovely 4K display for Phoro Editing where it matters but there is no way I'm gonna edit 120Mb images on an iPhone (raw size).
I am sure that Apple are looking at the different technologies and may decide to change from what they use now when the time is right. PErsonally, I can't understand why it is so important on a phone but that is my possible slightly luddite views.

 

[Keane16]

All about profit margins...

I don't think you can read this: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9686/the-apple-iphone-6s-and-iphone-6s-plus-review, and say they make their iPhone decisions purely on profit margins.

From the materials, the SoC, the effort placed on squeezing performance by things like lack of throttling etc.

An aspect of their decisions - sure. As with any business. But "All about", nope... they're idiots in Cupertino if that's the case, I can save them billions a year by using stock parts and stop wasting time with fancy aluminium, fabbing on the leading edge etc.

 

[ghost187]

Let's be honest, one of the main reasons for this is that they must shop from Samsung in order to use AMOLED. LG is ok for supplying a few million Apple Watch displays, but it would be a major risk to solely depend on them to supply 200+ million iPhone displays.

 

[Luis Mazza]

Calling people "stupid" because they don't think the way you do it's just pathetic, and no, no one is "forcing" you, if you love AMOLED so much and is all you care about, easy, switch to Samsung.

Stupid people are not stupid if they think they're. Where are you positioned?

 

[xdxdaustin]

How great are the power savings of AMOLED vs traditional LCD; how much of an impact does it make?

 

[naeS1Sean]

Samsung displays always seem like they have a blue tinge to me.

Yeah...I like that. lol

 

[John Mcgregor]

Yet you fail miserably in providing any useful "factual evidence", besides giving your own personal observations. Good luck with the kids!

Well personal observations is what matters. Who gives a **** about some spec sheet number in page 7 of 23 (which is still debatable). If i go to a store and prefer IPS panel to ambled. Then it is all that matters.

 

[Tech198]

maybe its the same bunch of people that reckon a inch makes all the difference

 

[jpgr15]

You can't take an isolated specific example, one that seems plausible, and use it as evidence for discrediting his predictions. Kuo has proven himself to be very accurate with him claims and doesn't often rebuke when he is wrong (e.g., "Apple changed it because I released a preview of it.")

He could have easily said: "Apple is bringing force touch to it's devices", but even in the example you give to bash, he also stated that the version implemented in iPhone would be different (3D Touch vs Force Touch), which it is, but not many forum-dwellers understood at the time.

The example I gave wasn't even regarding his prediction of 3D Touch on the 6S - I just read something here on MR within the last few months that he predicted the 7 would have 3D touch again.

I'm just saying, if you look at his predictions based solely on numbers - % of predictions correct vs % wrong, obvious predictions like the next iPhone retaining 3D Touch or the next iPhone having an A10 will pad those percentages in his favor.