A month ago, the possible implementation of a new type of screen in the iPhone that Apple is going to launch in the fall of this year was discussed. Practically we should have in iPhone 5 screens built using in-cell technology which should be thinner and should contribute to a reduction in the dimensions of the new device. Although for now no one knows for sure if Apple will use these screens, a publication from Taipei says that Sony would have been chosen by Apple to produce displays using in-cell technology.
Japan's Sony Mobile Display began mass production of in-cell touch panels in February, as the Sony Corp unit gets ready to supply the key component for Apple Inc's next-generation iPhone 5, IHS Displaybank senior analyst Stone Wu said. Two other Japanese panel suppliers — Sharp Corp and Toshiba Mobile Display — and LG Display Co of South Korea have also been tapping into the iPhone 5 panel supply chain, with the three companies scheduled to start mass production of the smartphone panels before the end of this month, he said.
At the moment, several screen manufacturers have been contracted by Apple to produce the displays that will be included in the iPhone 5, and some of them started production even last month. Sony would begin the production of the new screens in the near future, and during the summer the units should arrive in large numbers at the Foxconn factories where they will be assembled. Whether or not this technology will reach the future iPhone, we will find out only in the following months, or even in the fall, but only if Apple's partners will manage to produce enough units.
