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Samsung Signs $4.3 Billion Deal With Apple to Make OLED Displays for iPhone: Report

Samsung Signs $4.3 Billion-Deal With Apple to Make OLED Displays for iPhone: Report 4p3ub

By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 13 February 2017 17:34 IST

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Highlights

Apple has long been rumoured to reconsidering OLED displays
Samsung said to make 160 million OLED display s
Nearly all iPhone models this year implied to sport OLED displays

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Apple is strongly anticipated to use an OLED for at least one model of its iPhone lineup this year, expected to be the OLED s.

A report by South Korean publication The Investor claims that this is the second major deal for OLED s between the two companies, with the first said to be for 100 million display s - something that was reported as far back as April last year.

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Combined, Samsung is said to be making 160 million OLED display s for iPhone models this year - which is 80 percent of Apple's total iPhone shipments in 2016 when it shipped 200 million units. In light of this massive number, and if the report is true, Apple seems likely to use OLED s on all iPhone models this year, rather than only on the top-end all-glass model that's been rumoured thus far.

Apart from an OLED display, several changes are expected to be introduced with the 2017 iPhone models, though it remains unclear which models will get what features. Wireless charging (either a radical implementation of iPhone 8 or iPhone X, and a 5.5-inch iPhone 7s Plus.

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