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iPhone with OLED display: Apple and Samsung signed agreements for supplies

She comes from South Korea to the news of the agreement signed between Samsung and Apple to bring iPhone to an AMOLED display type. There is still no official confirmation, and we doubt that will come in a short time, however, the sources speak of an agreement between the two parties for the supply of approximately 60,000 flexible OLED panels per month. This would position Samsung at the forefront as far as the supply of displays for the next iPhone.
The rumors on the possible installation of an AMOLED display on future iPhone will follow each other for several months, with the characteristic that should arrive in 2017 in the line-up of Melafonino. They should assist in the provision of Samsung AMOLED display for iPhone other big names in the industry such as LG Display and Japan Display (JDI), who have recently made significant investments in technology also expanding their production capacity.
The two suppliers expect that new production facilities come up to speed in 2018, the very year in which Apple could introduce features into its line-up of smartphones. In that year the Cook company could make the historic transition from LCD IPS, the iPhone technology which make use for years to OLED, an alternative that Samsung adopts on its top of the range practically the dawn of the family Galaxy S.
A recent report, however, has spoken of an acceleration in the route plan by Apple, with the ability to see the first OLED panels on the iPhone as early as 2017, with the hypothetical iPhone 7S. The new ETNews report considers that the theory arrival of the technology as early as next year, going even to consider the possibility of seeing an organic LED panel on the iPhone even before the end of 2016, with the iPhone 7 expected next autumn.
There seems a rather rash hypothesis, possible only if Samsung has already started to provide Apple with the necessary components. But based on the information that we have available today it seems still a hypothesis unlikely since it is not currently supported by any other source. The two Korean manufacturers, Samsung and LG, are still favorites by Apple, and it certainly does not surprise us given the experience they have gained over the years both with OLED technology.
But there are other names that might be part of the supplies: Japan Display, for example, but Foxconn. It is a company to which Apple is now entrusted by several years in the Melafonino production and completion of the acquisition of Sharp could gain considerable expertise in the production of displays. The finalization of the agreements between Foxconn and Sharp will therefore have an important part in accelerating the work of Apple's roadmap to be able to bring OLED technology on the iPhone display.

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