The CEO of LG Display has this week made it clear that they’ve started production of display panels using in-cell technology, these panels quite likely headed for Apple’s new iPhone (aka the iPhone 5) next month. While LG has not been able to be specific about where the panels will be used, Han Sang-beom, LG Display’s chief executive, did allow reporters to know that though they’d been struggling with perfecting the technology up until now, “those hard times have finally ended.” LG is a major supplier of flat screens utilized by Apple’s iPad and iPhone devices.
If you’ll have a peek back at an in-cell patent that appeared with Apple’s name on it earlier this month, you’ll find that they are indeed prepping the technology for future products. This technology allows LCD and touch recognition hardware to be integrated into one unit rather than two, allowing whichever product that uses a touchscreen with said technology to have much more room for other components behind the screen – or a thinner product overall.
Another interesting point to be made here is that the patent was originally filed all the way back in 2007 when the iPhone was first produced. This very well could simply mean that the technology was invented then and took this long to perfect – this tying in well with LG’s current announcement that they’d “had some hard times at first”. Han also let reporters known at that “the in-cell technology is the industry’s latest development. We will be able to supply the panels without any fail.”
For those of you looking to pick up the new iPhone, you’ll want to make sure you’re prepared to pick up a converter accessory as well as the device itself – there’s a new docking port in the mix too! We’ll be prepping several articles between here and the final announcement for the iPhone 5 – or whatever it’ll end up being called – so that you’re fully ready for the drop. Get ready for a whole new generation of Apple product!
Also note that the image above is a rendering of the new iPhone as created by the talented folks at NWE. Probably quite close to reality!
[via WSJ]
iPhone 5 in-cell touchscreen rolling out at LG is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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LG’s reply to the Samsung Galaxy Note when it came to the phablet market was in the form of the LG Optimus Vu, offering all 5″ of viewing goodness to boot. Well, we do know that the LG Optimus Vu is making its way to the circles of Verizon Wireless, and there are some anonymous tipsters who have spoken to the folks over at Droid-Life, (hence the watermark in the images above) touting that Verizon will rename the LG Optimus Vu by calling it the “4G LTE Intuition by LG”. Seriously, does a piece of hardware like a phablet need such an obnoxiously long name? You could have just called it the LG Intuition without the 4G LTE suffix, and the world would have moved on nicely (and I would have had to type less words). It seems that the LG Intuition will retail for $199.99 on contract, but if you want to pick it up sans contract, then it will cost you $549.99 a pop. Those rocking to Verizon can look forward to a phablet from LG in due time.
When it comes to processors in your smartphones, one of the names that are surely worth taking note of would be Qualcomm, and it seems as though the company is working on a spanking new quad-core processor known as the Snapdragon S4 Pro, which has been speculated to see action in the upcoming LG device. Right now, the company mentioned that they are unable to give further comments on the device, at least not until LG steps forward with an official announcement of their own. Qualcomm did mention, however, at this particular handset from LG is already “currently in production”, where it will be sold in South Korea sometime from September this year onwards, with a very high probability of a global release arriving later in the year. Do you think that Qualcomm’s latest attempt at a quad-core processor in the form of the Snapdragon S4 Pro is going to be a winner?
LG Display is one of the manufacturers for Apple when it comes to displays for their devices, and we have received word that LG Display has begun mass production of an unknown, albeit thinner display, and many people are speculating that this new and thinner display could very well be the same display that sees action in Apple’s upcoming next generation iPhone. Right now, the display’s production schedule is said to remain in line with customers’ product release plans, according to LG’s chief executive. “We just began mass production and we don’t expect any disruption in supplies,” mentioned Han Sang-beom, chief executive of LG Display. Apart from LG Display, Sharp of Japan is also speculated to begin shipping displays meant for the new iPhone sometime from this month onwards.
