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OLED Supplier Sees Fourfold Leap in Orders as Apple Gears Up for 2017 iPhone
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If it's released June 2017, now would be the time to order to get OLED/mLED production started in the next few months.
I'm looking forward to switching to OLED and I have a 6s so the 2017 sounds perfect to me 
I just hope they'll introduce OLED on both models, I'd buy the large screen only if they managed to remove the bezels and I don't want to be forced to buy a giant phone just to get OLED and dual camera
I just hope they'll introduce OLED on both models, I'd buy the large screen only if they managed to remove the bezels and I don't want to be forced to buy a giant phone just to get OLED and dual camera
I'm looking forward to switching to OLED and I have a 6s so the 2017 sounds perfect to me
I just hope they'll introduce OLED on both models, I'd buy the large screen only if they managed to remove the bezels and I don't want to be forced to buy a giant phone just to get OLED and dual camera
I'm in the same boat. I don't want to be forced to upgrade to the larger screen just to get a better display. I have a feeling both models will get OLED/mLED. Like you, I may consider the 5.5/5.8" if it's close in size to my 6s with the bezel significantly reduced.
So, the smaller (better for many) iPhones getting less and less compared to the larger ones, this year's model basically a gap-filler to milk people of some more cash while the real new models are worked on for next year...
What happened to Apple? Fragmentation and withholding features on what are still "premium" devices just to try to up-sell to something many don't want (we all remember the original iPhone being the "perfect" size after all), running out of ideas, having endless cash reserves and two year's development still not enough to do anything interesting this year?
I'm putting on the life-preserver and getting ready to jump ship this September sadly...
What happened to Apple? Fragmentation and withholding features on what are still "premium" devices just to try to up-sell to something many don't want (we all remember the original iPhone being the "perfect" size after all), running out of ideas, having endless cash reserves and two year's development still not enough to do anything interesting this year?
I'm putting on the life-preserver and getting ready to jump ship this September sadly...
You need to move your thinking forward.
Just because an area CAN display image on it's surface, does not mean it HAS to be displaying an image all the time.
Think of a device, like the one pictured (which we know is not real) but the WHOLE front is screen.
Then, you can have full control over which areas of this whole surface displays images and which areas respond to touch input at any given time.
There is no reason why the concept of a "Soft Bezel" can not be the norm in the future, where such a device, which will be some form of OLED, hence Black really is black and uses zero power when it's black. You simply "Display" a border around the edge of the screen and do not detect finger touches during this time.
You then have, in effect a bezel, exactly as you have now.
The only different being, it's not set in stone.
Perhaps if you wanted to play a game, or watch a movie, and were not holding the device in a certain way, or it was on a table/stand, THEN the active area can expand out to cover the entire front of the device.
As I say, re-think it for a moment.
Total screen cover give you full control to do anything.
You are elderly want a large bezel, you can have a large bezel.
Want to hold it by it's edges, like a photograph without touching the front, you could have a very narrow or zero bezel.
I'd love this, as it allows the maker or user to have full control.
Not a physical screen stuck in the middle of a physical bezel like now.
I suspect the rumours about low demand came from IPS display makers as it defo looks like we're getting OLED. I just pray to god it's not going to be a crappy pentile display as i actually believe they are much lower fidelity because of anti aliasing and artefacts and double pixels. I think OLED 1080p is a lie and should be more like 2560p to get the same quality as RGB sub pixel layouts.
So Apple is never allowed to use technology that another company has used before?
I'm pretty sure they didn't invent LCD.
Enough with this edge to edge nonsense. One of my phones is an Galaxy S7 Edge and you can't even pick the thing up without hitting some button or function along the sides. Its a horrible idea and the "concept" photo in the story is laughable - a nightmare in waiting.
These reports at least to me indicate that at WWDC we will see the new small bumped iPhone, Apple Watch 2, Mac Minis and Mac pro's. The fall OLED Macbook Pro's and iPads. Next March iPhone OLED in 4, 4.7 and 5.5 versions. WWDC 2017 OLED iMacs 27 and 32. Well I can dream!!!
Are you crushing this 3rd party concept because you dont know how to build it? It their job to be the innovators, why would you discourage something like that. There couldnt be a camera that slides out? It would protect the lens when not in use. They cant make the sensors work from behind the screen or put them somewhere else?
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I think it looks fantastic and would be great. Just because it is edge to edge doesnt mean it has to be curved at the edge. We just want the biggest screen possible, in the smallest form factor possible.
Come on MacRumors, you know better. If the rumors are referring to next year's iphone, it certainly wouldn't be called iPhone 8. This year is iPhone 7, next year is iPhone 7s, and so on. So either these rumors are for this year, or for 2 years from now.
Apple doesn't, hasn't broken from the 2 year new model cycle so I doubt they will any time soon.
Apple doesn't, hasn't broken from the 2 year new model cycle so I doubt they will any time soon.
The curved part isn't the issue. The curve is tiny and that's not the part you end up touching. If you hold it, you actually end up hitting parts of the screen that are just inside the curve, about 1/8 of an inch past the curve, due to the curve of your own fingers, especially the thumb. It looks nice, but its horrible in practice. My 6s Plus is perfect. Very little edge, but at least you can't pick it up or hold it, without constantly activating the screen. If they trim some top and bottom off the iPhone, especially the bottom, that would do the trick for small form factor.
Wonder if there is anything connecting this to the 2016 MBP story, claiming it will have an OLED display as well. Maybe the 4x orders aren't all to do with iPhones after all?
Tim Cook, 14/9/2014, interview with Charlie Rose: "The philosophy has always been to be the best, not the first."
Apple let everyone else make fools of themselves and make the mistakes by implementing tech and "features" that are flawed &/or amount to nothing useful; that's market research AND R&D for free.
Is there any chance that all of these "2017" features are actually features for the iPhone 7? I feel like the Apple product line needs a boost, and releasing a minor update in form factor is not the boost they need. All of the features being "leaked" about the iPhone 7 sound more like a 'S' upgrade cycle than a new generation (other than removing the antenna bands).
I think the iPhone 7 is going to look much different than what we are all expecting.
I think the iPhone 7 is going to look much different than what we are all expecting.
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