Could future iPhones come with flexible screens? They could if leading Korean display manufacturers get their way, judging from a news story by BusinessKorea. The corporate news website reports an “industry source” saying that Apple is “serious” about future iPhones coming with OLED – organic light-emitting diode – screens.
These displays, BusinessKorea continues, are reportedly appealing to the Cupertino giant due to their ability to rectify weaknesses in color saturation, brightness and accuracy affecting current iPhone models. However, the website adds that, due to the schedule of display manufacturers, “banana iPhones” – as it amusingly calls them – might not hit the market until 2018.
One existing line of Apple devices, the Apple Watch, already uses OLED screens supplied by two South Korean companies, LG Display and Samsung Display – and the aforementioned source claims that there will be a huge market for an iPhone with the same type of screen. Let’s wait – for three years, if we really have to – and see…
