Apple is said to be working with South Korean companies, Samsung, and LG through their respective display manufacturing arm to produce the OLED panels for iPhone 13 series. Production of these panels is starting a month earlier than last year’s iPhone 12 series due to the materials shortage and production issues encountered last year, ultimately pushing back their release.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!According to South Korean news outlet, The Elec, Samsung Display will deliver a total of 130 – 140 million OLED panels out of which 80 million are iPhone 13 OLED display panels. The remaining units will be used in manufacturing iPhone 12 series and other legacy models. Meanwhile, LG Display is expected to deliver up to 50 million OLED panels, out of which about 30 million will be used for iPhone 13 and BOE is expected to pick up the remaining 10 million OLED panels.
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Market-research company, Omdia expects Samsung to make a total of 110 million iPhone OLED panels. The company expects LG to BOE to push 50 million units and BOE will make 9 million units. Apple is said to be using Samsung’s LTPO OLED panels with 120Hz refresh rate for the top two iPhone 13 models (presumably 1Phone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max) and LG’s LTPS OLED panels for the remaining two models (presumably iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini).
Various sources report that the iPhone 13 series will feature 120Hz refresh rate (pro models) and Always-On display on respective screen sizes, up to 1TB storage space, and the lightning port will remain instead of USB-C. Battery capapcity is expected to increase in the new iPhones to accomodate the upcoming feature changes and camera changes are expected too.