[News] iPhone 8 might not get OLED after all

[StyM]

http://www.fudzilla.com/news/42153-i...oled-after-all

Hopes that Apple might be sex up its iPhone 8 with OLED technology could be dashed by the fact that its suppliers can?t make enough of technology.

After producing an iPhone 7 which was more or less the same as the last one, Apple had been expected to do something special with the iPhone 8. OLED screens were being touted as a way that the tax-dodging cargo cult might pull that off.
However according to the IB Times suppliers may not be able to meet the demand.

This could force Apple to release limited next-gen iPhone units in 2017 with the rest using the older LCD technology. In otherwords regurgitating the same technology it has used for years meaning that the iPhone 8 will look and feel like the iPhone 7, which looked suspiciously like the iPhone 6, which was not much of an advance from the iPhone 5.

Samsung Display, LG Display, Sharp and Japan Display cannot mass produce enough units as demanded by the smartphone industry. OLED screens are difficult and time-consuming to produce and it is likely that this constraint spills over to 2018.

Samsung is reported to be the chief supplier for iPhone's OLED panels in 2017 but it is facing low yield rates along with its high demand. Apple ordered an initial round of 100 million units for 2017 but Samsung is likely to produce only a portion of that.

KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that Apple may resort to releasing a fair amount of units featuring screens that use older LCD technology.

[zanzabar]

if they keep the same low resolution and keep the same red/yellow color space it would make sense to not go OLED. right now if they used a normal srgb color space a super amoled pentile screen would be cheaper, but with the low 325ppi the LCD is cheaper since 330ppi is the minimum display density that LG makes for penile screens and maybe more important no one makes RGB (super amoled+) screens in a ppi over about 90ppi right now so keeping that color space they want to use is not an option with OLED with off the shelf parts.