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Apple could start using OLED Displays for iPhone in 2018


Apple is planning to use OLED displays in 2018 for iPhones, According to Nikkei. Apple has notified their display suppliers about their future display plan in order to make them ready for production, LG is already providing OLEDs for Apple Watch and readying its self for production capacity upgrade for OLEDs Display.

 The report claims LG Display and Samsung Electronics will be the main provider of OLED displays for future iPhones. Apple's step toward OLED display will be a huge loss for Japanese Companies that are currently producing LCD displays for Apple and earning a huge amount of profit.

 Apple ships a lot of iPhones, the technical issues of OLEDs forcing the company to continue selling iPhones integrated with LCD display panels alongside models featuring new OLED display.

 Apple is using LCD displays since the first iPhone launched eight years ago, But the competitors are using the cutting edge OLED display technologies which are sharper, brighter and power efficient than the LCD displays, but they offer shorter display life and costs way more than LCDs. Apple is working hard to eliminate cons of OLED displays as Apple wants to introduce better display than existing displays.

 Previously, Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities shared that Apple is not adopting OLED display at least for next three years because of a report claiming that Apple is adopting AMOLED display for iPhone 7. Kuo also claimed that Apple's largest supplier Foxconn is investing in advanced TFT -LCD production lines in China for mass production in 2018.

 If not OLED display, Apple has to upgrade iPhone 7 with a better display that could be an innovation through LCD or may be just a number upgrade.

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iPad mini 4 has best Display ever, iPad Pro and iPad Air 2 displays are not bad


DisplayMate Technologies compared the displays of the latest iPad lineup including the recently Launched iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 4 to find how each iPad perform against each other. But unexpectedly iPad mini 4 outperformed the most advanced iPad Pro and iPad Air 2 in display quality in lab tests by DisplayMate.

DisplayMate says "unquestionably the best and most accurate LCD tablet display we've ever tested" giving it the higher marks than the iPad Pro with the resolution of 2732 x 2048. iPad Pro didn't perform bad and got nearly excellent marks. iPad Air 2 was also good and considered in top level displays, but its was less than iPad mini 4 and iPad Pro and it's obvious as its was a 2014 launch and yet it's not updated from Apple.

Apple has used same IPS LCD technology in it's all tablet lineup, iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro uses the Photo aligned LCDs that supports higher contrast ratios while iPad mini 4 uses the standard mechanical alignment. The iPad Pro display also includes a metal oxide TFT backplane for better light throughput and power efficiency, otherwise there will be a battery life issue with such big display.

All the iPads have nearly same maximum brightness, but on the maximum contrast ratio in brightest white and darkest black is overwhelmingly true on all the iPads, but best on the iPad Pro. iPad mini 4 has the True Contrast Ratio of 967, the iPad Air 2 has the True contrast ratio of 1,064 and the iPad Pro has the true contrast ratio of 1,631 which is highest contrast ratio ever seen on an LCD tablet display.

iPad mini 4 has the best color gamut with the score of 101 percent while iPad Air 2 stood on the second position by scoring 105 percent and throwing the iPad Pro on the Last  with the score of 107 color gamut while 100 percent is the best and most accurate color gamut. On color accuracy, different was not big and iPad Pro and iPad Air was also good although iPad mini won the test.

But heading to the Screen reflectance, DisplayMate declared that all the three iPads are unbeatable for performance in ambient light. iPad mini 4 has the most less reflection, but the other two were also too close. But on measuring contrast in ambient light iPad Mini 4 again won the battle with the score of 225, iPad Air 2 scored 166 and iPad Pro scored 163.

iPad Pro's display remained most power efficient display due to the metal oxide backplane while iPad mini 4 won the title of best iPad Display ever from DisplayMate.

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AMOLED display not coming to iPhone for at least next three years, Ming-Chi Kuo says


Apple is not adopting AMOLED display technology for future generations of iPhone, According to the most trustable Analyst  Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI securities. Kuo says Apple will still use TFT LCD display technology for next generations of iPhone, AMOLED display is not coming for at least next three years. 

 Hon Hai's Foxconn is preparing to invest a lot of money in advanced TFT-LCD display production lines in China for mass production in 2018 to fulfil manufacturer's demand. iPhone backlit supplier company Minebea also preparing for next generation of iPhone indicating that No AMOLED display is coming and Kuo also stated that Apple will still make iPhones with TFT-LCD displays.

DigiTimes few weeks ago reported that Samsung may supply some OLED displays to Apple for testing purpose for future iPhones. Previously a rumor hit the web saying iPhone with AMOLED display could hit the market in 2017 and Apple is already using the OLED display in Apple Watch.

But Kuo says There is no evidence hinting at AMOLED or OLED based iPhones in future. AMOLED display has more brighter colors and the displays are more efficient than LCDs in terms of power saving and displaying blacks.

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