Apple is developing an iPhone with a flexible curved screen that could be introduced in 2018, it has been claimed.
The handset would use a similar screen to the Apple Watch, based on a technology called OLED.
It would also be brighter and show colours better than current iPhone screens.
Business Korea said: ‘According to an industry source, Apple is ‘serious’ about transferring its flagship product lineup to one equipped with organic light-emitting diode (OLED), screens as those displays can solve its existing weak points such as color saturation, accuracy, and brightness.’
The source added that if Apple releases an iPhone with an OLED-based flexible screen, it will create a huge market, as Apple has not yet used the technology in its flagship models.
Currently Apple applies flexible OLEDs to just the Apple Watch, the panels of which LG Display and Samsung Display supply.
‘It is very likely that the first flexible iPhone may be introduced in 2018, as Apple’s top-tier display suppliers are working on it,’ the source told the site.
It believes the first flexible iPhone could arrive in 2018.
Apple is also believed to be mulling killing off the home button, it has been claimed.
Read More: Mail online UK
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