Foxconn to Develop OLED Displays Following Sharp Takeover

I still don't see a real and practical use for wraparound screens as the S7 Edge has.

To me, it's nothing more than looks, and making the display more vulnerable to breakage, scratches, etc.
Does it sense touch on the edges? If yes, how can you hold it by the sides without causing a touch event?

Unless Apple is planning use this technology for something more practical, someone please enlighten me.

Would be great if Apple improved the Shenzhen operations by lifting wages for its offshore workers, reducing their hours, and giving them proper working conditions. Apple is totally dragging its feet. And the issue at hand is OLED vs LCD?? What a joke!

Wages
- The wage of an Apple factory worker inChina is about $310 USD per month. (2000 Chinese Yuan per month, but somewhere between 850 Chinese Yuan per month to 2030 Chinese Yuan.)
- The wage of a factory worker in the USA is about $3900 USD. (Notice the extra zero?)

Hours of work
- The hours of work in Apple’s offshore factories are at least 60 hours with records showing Apple’s offshore factory workers can frequently work up to more than 100 hours in a week.
- The hours of work in the USA is around 40 hours.

Buying an iPhone
- iPhone SE 16GB price in China is $510 USD. (3288 Chinese Yuan.)
- iPhone SE 16GB price in the USA is $399 USD.

China File
https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/major-china-apple-supplier-pays-workers-less-foxconn

China Labor Watch
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/report/107

CNET
http://www.cnet.com/au/news/low-wages-and-long-hours-still-persist-at-iphone-factory-claims-labor-group/

Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/06/12/if-apples-foxconn-will-move-to-india-then-las-15-minimum-wage-will-cost-jobs/

Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/average-cost-factory-worker_n_1327413.html

Market Watch
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/it-would-take-25-years-of-foxconn-wages-to-afford-10000-apple-watch-2015-03-10

If you care so much why don't you go to China and volunteer your time?

Oh I forgot. You want OTHER people to do charity not yourself.

I'm not interested in more screen real estate if it's on the side. I would like a bezel-less display though.

Would be great if Apple improved the Shenzhen operations by lifting wages for its offshore workers, reducing their hours, and giving them proper working conditions. Apple is totally dragging its feet. And the issue at hand is OLED vs LCD?? What a joke!

Wages
- The wage of an Apple factory worker inChina is about $310 USD per month. (2000 Chinese Yuan per month, but somewhere between 850 Chinese Yuan per month to 2030 Chinese Yuan.)
- The wage of a factory worker in the USA is about $3900 USD. (Notice the extra zero?)

Hours of work
- The hours of work in Apple’s offshore factories are at least 60 hours with records showing Apple’s offshore factory workers can frequently work up to more than 100 hours in a week.
- The hours of work in the USA is around 40 hours.

Buying an iPhone
- iPhone SE 16GB price in China is $510 USD. (3288 Chinese Yuan.)
- iPhone SE 16GB price in the USA is $399 USD.

China File
https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/major-china-apple-supplier-pays-workers-less-foxconn

China Labor Watch
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/report/107

CNET
http://www.cnet.com/au/news/low-wages-and-long-hours-still-persist-at-iphone-factory-claims-labor-group/

Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/06/12/if-apples-foxconn-will-move-to-india-then-las-15-minimum-wage-will-cost-jobs/

Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/average-cost-factory-worker_n_1327413.html

Market Watch
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/it-would-take-25-years-of-foxconn-wages-to-afford-10000-apple-watch-2015-03-10

Apple should be focused on jobs with in the Nation that created them.

Here it is, the yearly implication that Apple are going to use OLED screens in the next model... and we can all guess what happens... they use IPS LCDs, thankfully. OLED is a mess - if OLED were really THAT GOOD, why are they not completely replacing LCDs? It's not as if OLED are new and bleeding edge. Apple are about colour accuracy, especially when you consider their new iPad Pro 9.7". Why would they move one product across to OLED and not the rest - can you say "inconsistent"? I am extremely confident that Apple will skip OLED panels altogether, and that they have something of their own in the pipeline... a little way off yet.

OLED screen: nice gimmick to have if your name is "Samsung".

Thanks for showing us you haven't a clue about this.

Thank you for knowing that I am an electronics engineer working at component level, and have been following OLED since day 1, and as whizz-bang contrast goes, it's great... but so what. When are you coming for dinner? Not seen you in ages... you should come over - you know my address, you've known me all my life, after all :)


Tim Cook doesn't like OLED - he's said so himself - read:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/148266-apple-ceo-blasts-oleds-as-inferior-tech-independent-research-shows-he-has-a-point



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Apple CEO blasts OLEDs as inferior tech – independent research shows he has a point
Joel Hruska ('http://www.extremetech.com/author/jhruska') on February 12, 2013 at 2:20 pm
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* long way ('http://www.displaymate.com/OLED_Galaxy_S123_ShootOut_1.htm') since it launched the Galaxy S in 2010; the Galaxy S3’s screen is superior to the S1 in multiple respects.

Compare the Galaxy S3 against the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 ('http://www.displaymate.com/Smartphone_ShootOut_2.htm'), however, and the OLED technology doesn’t shine as bright. That’s literally true, in this case — Samsung capped maximum brightness sharply, apparently in an attempt to reduce power consumption. Even so, the Galaxy S3 draws more power than either of the iPhones, both in absolute terms (1.3W at peak brightness vs. 0.42W for the iPhone 4 and 0.74W for the iPhone 5) and when normalized for a 4-inch display.

The color gamut on the S3 series is substantially larger than the sRGB standard, which results in inaccurate color (a too-large color gamut actually hurts color reproduction more than a restricted gamut). The screen is hard to read in bright light due to the brightness cap. The S3’s color spectrum is shaped quite differently from the other three devices, which contributes to the saturation problem.

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Light spectrum emitted by OLED vs. LCD displays. The sharp peaks contribute to the saturation issues. Image from Displaymate

The power efficiency findings may surprise people, given that OLED technology is often touted as being more efficient than other types of displays, not less. It’s absolutely true that under certain circumstances, OLEDs sip power while LCDs gulp it. The problem for OLEDs is that their maximum brightness settings can draw considerably more power than LCDs, particularly in daylight. (See: Electrowetting displays: Brighter than LCD, lower-power, and daylight readable ('http://www.extremetech.com/computing/145253-electrowetting-displays-brighter-than-lcd-lower-power-and-daylight-readable').)

Samsung is heavily committed to its OLED roadmap ('http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/145540-oleds-4k-hd-and-smart-tv-whats-the-best-near-term-bet-for-better-television') and we expect the gap between the technologies to narrow as manufacturing improves, but Cook’s comments aren’t just one executive sniping at another from a high-profile platform. As gorgeous as OLED displays can be, they still require proper calibration. In the power-constrained world of smartphones, an OLED display may not always be the best option, particularly when compared to high-end LCDs manufactured with IGZO or LTPS ('http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/126519-the-perils-and-promise-of-high-resolution-displays') (low temperature poly silicon)."