According to the rumors, this year’s iPhone 8 is expected to sport a new design and a new OLED display. The new design is said to feature a bezel-less display where we heard it could pack a 5-inch display but at the same time due to the lack of bezels, will allow the iPhone 8 to be roughly around the same size of the smaller iPhone 7s 4.7-inch display.
However it seems that come 2019, that could change because in a report from ET News out of Korea, next year’s iPhones are expected to pack much larger displays. The report claims that Apple is looking into launching two iPhones next year, one with a 5.85-inch display and the other with a 6.46-inch display, both of which are larger than the existing Plus model which has a 5.5-inch display.
Apparently Apple has already started development work with Samsung Display who will be supplying the OLED panels to the Cupertino company. The report goes on to add that prior to this, Apple was looking into display sizes of 5.28-inches and 6.46-inches, but apparently due to the demand for larger displays, Apple ditched the 5.28-inch model for the 5.85-inch model.
Now these displays sound quite monstrous, but assuming Apple maintains the bezel-less design, they might actually prove to be rather manageable. As it stands the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has a 6.3-inch display, but the lack of bezels means that it isn’t quite as unwieldy as you might think, although your mileage might vary. Obviously it’s too early to tell if these rumors hold any weight, so take it with a grain of salt for now.
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