New LCD screen technology is expected to not just improve image quality in the next generation iPhone, but it could make it thinner as well.
According to WSJ.com, Sharp, Japan Display, and LG Display are fervently producing the display panels for the next iPhone. Current touch-screens have been composed of a display layer and a touch-screen layer. By integrating touch sensors into a single LCD layer, a thinner touch-screen with even better image quality can be produced.
Other reports overwhelmingly support Apple will stretch the current 3.5-inch display to 4-inches or more in the next iPhone.
Samsung's latest smartphone, the Galaxy S III, features a 4.8-inch OLED screen and is thinner than Apple's current iPhone.
This falls in line with the report from KGI Securities Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo that MacRumors posted this spring. It detailed how the next iPhone could be at least 1.4mm thinner than the iPhone 4S.
Smartphone makers seem obsessed with making the thinnest devices possible, but does Apple need to make a slimmer iPhone? It could offer the space needed for a higher capacity battery.
Matthew Fortner has been at The News & Observer since 2002. He has a passion for gadgets, cutting-edge technology and all things geek.
Comments
Playing catch up
Tue, 07/17/2012 - 10:09 — citizen782Apple has 11% of the global smart phone market. Samsung has 23%. At this rate of development Apple will catch Samsung, well....never.
Samsung just makes better phones. In fact, HTC and Motorola do to. The Atrix HD is 3X better than any iPhone. Now that Google Play is getting stocked with apps nothing about the future of the mobile market bodes well for Apple, except that they will always have their foo-foo coffee shop people asking for iAnything like good little drones.