Apple is testing new screens for future iPhone models, and here we are not talking about the already known OLED screens that should arrive in the iPhone 8, but about the microLED ones. It has been speculated for months and months that Apple has at least one laboratory in which it develops microLED screens for the iPhone, and this information from today seems to support the theory.
According to today's information source, the Apple company would like to produce this year some prototypes, or even real products that have microLED screens. In 2014, Apple bought a company specialized in the production of microLED screens for mobile terminals, and now it wants to finalize its technologies to be able to implement them in its own products.
Considering that Apple has been working for about 3 years on the development of microLED screens for iPhone terminals, it would not be hard to believe that in 2017 they could produce the first prototypes. Although they are mainly thought for the iPhone, these microLED screens could initially be implemented in the Apple Watch, where there are most rumors regarding Apple's plans.
Apple is forced to switch to OLED for the iPhone because it has no alternatives in the LCD field, but in reality it would like to use microLED technologies. How long it will take until we see the first iPhone with a microLED screen is hard to say, but this Apple company wants to offer them to customers from all over the world in the shortest possible time.
"Recent market speculations indicate that Apple is likely to crank out a small volume of micro LED display products from its plant in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan at the end of the year. Taiwan-based innovative startup PlayNitride, which was reportedly targeted by Samsung Electronics for possible acquisition, is expected to install a production line for trial production of micro LED products in the second half of 2017, the sources indicated."
