Next round of Apple handsets and netbooks to sport OLED displays?
A report this morning from Australian tech magazine Smarthouse suggests Apple may have selected a series of OLED displays for its next round of handset and netbook screens. According to an unnamed source within the company, initial fruits of the company’s newly awarded display contract with LG will be an entirely new set of OLED screens that will make their way into Apple’s upcoming iPhone and iPod Touch models, as well as a new and often-rumored Apple netbook. The move would certainly go a great length to help somewhat lackluster battery performance, especially considering the variety of added battery-sucking features that were announced at Apple’s 3.0 event this past Tuesday. So what do you guys think about the possibility of a sexy new capacitive OLED display on the inevitable iPhone / iPod Touch models due in June or July?
Thanks, Donald!
@Pete Belk who said: “It is funny as heck when Apple comes out with something new, all of the followers think that Apple invented that particular technology, its been around for years, but because Apple is doing it, it becomes the greatest thing since sliced bread.”
Kindly quote those who have made such ridiculous statements. They should be drawn and quartered at once for their sins.
Or, on the other hand, you wouldn’t be attempting to create a false-reality to rail against. Would you?
It would be common sense for you to quote your “intended party” instead of starting confusion to other “party[s]” My apologies if I did or did not offend you.
@backbeat
@backbeat:
“Like to define “large scale” as I referred to it in the post which you find fault? Seriously? You don’t really wanna go there, do ya?”
Yes, I DO want to go there
Only you know how you defined it. I’m inferring you meant number of phones sold. Nokia has been selling OLED phones since 2007 with the 7900 and the 8800. I’m not even counting the N93i which had an outside OLED screen but LCD inside, and the 2006 Nokia 6215i as I think that was made by Pantech.
Take a quick look at the sales figures of the N85 and the 6600 slide, and you’ll see that Nokia with these two phones has ALREADY sold more OLED phones than Apple has sold iPhone 3Gs. Add the 7900 and the 8800-series, and Nokia is definitely large scale in OLED.
@Chunky: Whatever, Monkeee.
@Canis_Major: Talk volume numbers … -then- we can talk about comparisons of “large scale”. Not until, however, as **no one** is making the false claim that Apple was ‘first’ on any scale.
@ Backbeat
You sir, are an ass…. but you make me laugh. Drawn and quartered. You almost made me spit water on my keyboard. Thats the type of good ol’ fashioned capital punishment a guy can really get behind…
Then how about we trade phones and service? I’ll let you have this brick (BB Storm) and you give me your “iCrap.”
If Apple does plan to produce an iPhone with OLED and it ends up making the iPhone more expensive, they could position it as a “premium” iPhone model, until OLED prices come down.
what
Loves hype! Just keep on giving me a new model every year and I will keep buying!!!
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@ Pete Belk
You’re the coolest. How’d you get to be so anti-establishment and counter culture? I bet you ride a bitchin’ motorcycle, ’cause you’re an outlaw, right? Keep on building those straw-man arguments. After all, Tiggers gotta’ bounce and haters gotta’ hate.
What establishment? Apple’s stock is tanking like everyone elses, they are looking at ways to generate revenue, hence upgraded handset, one that the same Apple lovers have been screaming for, for 2 years and NOW they decide to come out with what everyone else has been enjoying since the dawn of the cellphone.
Counter culture? not hardly I buy what suits me, I dont follow the crowd or attempt to keep up with the Jonses. I do not buy items just because a particular magazine, critic, or expert states that this is the greatest thing, I have touse it to see if it will what I expect out of a phone, if it does not meet my needs or expectations then I either get rid of it or purchase what will, not what is popular at the time.
And your right I am cool
@AgBand
“WOW! This is soooo awesome! Just more proof that Apple can do no wrong and that EVERYTHING they do is the coolest thing ever!!”
How fanboyish is that? What a dweeb…
So what if it cost more money for oled display…Mapple fanboys will buy it anyway.
Once it has a Icrap or mapple logo they buy it
Something I just thought of…didn’t Apple file a patent a while back for some type of secondary screen mounted beneath the main iPhone screen that would allow, say, a clock to be always visible, even when the main display is off? If they use an OLED for the main display, that would totally work since OLEDs don’t require a backlight…
Just thinking out loud…
@Pete Belk
You say ‘I dont follow the crowd or attempt to keep up with the Jonses’…but yet you admit to owning the original iPhone. Contradiction: stubborness versus stupidity…
DO NOT BELIEVE IT. The writer of this article has been exposed previously as a fraud and a plagiarist. http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2178689.htm He most likely made this up to drive traffic to his site, just as he did the “PS4″.
I’m gonna push past the insanity of people taking the time to read an article on a phone they don’t like, and taking the time to venomously attack it to ask a question:
What benefits do OLED offer over LCD displays? I’m ignorant on the subject.
the displays are rumored for the netbook, not the iPhone.
Who cares… As long as its on AT&Ts network it sucks..
@D50
The AT&T network where I live is better than any of the other major ones. I’ve been in places where other people on other networks couldn’t get signals and AT&T had no issues. I guess we can’t all be on Boost Mobile like you…
I think that one of the biggest issues Apple face is the cost of going to market Vs clever new technology. OLED is a classic example. Apple and their patents have given them an advantage with touch now they are working on hardware with partners.
@David Richards-
Multi-touch technology dates back to 1982, when Nimish Mehta at the University of Toronto developed the first finger pressure multi-touch display. Although Apple has won some sort of multi touch patent in Jan 2009 (after first filing in Sept 2005). what is funny is that Steve Jobs himself is listed as one of the “inventors” of it…lol. If this is true, the Palm Pre will be ripped by lawsuits as soon as it comes out.
^The specific -claims- of each patent app are what have gravity, not the fact that a patent app -title- may sound similar.
We’ll see how Apples patent claim holds up when the Pre comes out.