Questionable Rumor Suggests Apple to Launch 5.8-inch ‘iPhone Pro’ with OLED Display by 2018

Questionable Rumor Suggests Apple to Launch 5.8-inch 'iPhone Pro' with OLED Display by 2018
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We’ve heard a lot of rumors lately that Apple will eventually transition to OLED display technology for its full line of iPhone handsets — a move that many analysts believe could come within the next few yeas, with some going so far as to suggest a 2018 debut. However, a new, though extremely questionable, rumor out of Taiwan suggests that — in addition to the OLED display — Apple could possibly release an iPhone featuring a whopping 5.8-inch display.

According to DigiTimes, and backed up by claims originally made by The Motley Fool, Apple has “plans to launch a 5.8-inch iPhone featuring rigid AMOLED display panels in 2018 or even earlier in 2017.” In the report, Taiwanese analysts speculate that as many as 50 million of those 5.8-inch OLED iPhones might be sold within their first year of availability.

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The report also alleges that, while Samsung would exclusively supply Apple’s initial batch of OLED panels, other current Apple suppliers — such as LG and Japan Display — will ultimately bring their panels to the table at a later time, too.

The Motley Fool article goes on to speculate that the 5.8-inch handset could be positioned and marketed as the 2nd generation ‘iPhone Pro’ — which many believe could be touching down this year, boasting the 5.5-inch stature of the ‘iPhone 7 Plus’, with an added bonus of high-quality, dual-lens optics for vastly superior photo taking capabilities.

Here’s where the rumored 5.8-inch display on an iPhone doesn’t particularly make sense to us, though:

It’s an almost certain prospect at this point that Apple will eventually transition its iPhone display technology to OLED, yes. However, simply the idea that the Silicon Valley tech-giant might delve even further into the phablet scene seems a bit, if not entirely, far fetched to us. Why is that? Well, for starters, the move would effectively give Apple’s range of iOS devices a total of 7 different physical screen dimensions — including the 4” iPhone 5s, 4.7” iPhone 6/6s, 5.5” iPhone 6/6s Plus, 5.8”, 7.9” iPad mini, 9.7” iPad Air, and 12.9” iPad Pro.

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Furthermore, a 5.8-inch iPhone — though perhaps fun to fantasize about — wouldn’t result in a display that much larger than Apple’s current 5.5-inch display on the iPhone 6s Plus. Whereas, for comparison, the company’s current 4.7-inch iPhone 6s, and 4-inch iPhone 5s, gives each model in Apple’s current lineup plenty of room to stand out from the next.

The original iPhone — launched back in June, 2007 — featured a 3.5-inch display, which eventually grew into the taller 4-inch panel on the iPhone 5, followed two years later by the 4.7- and 5.5-inch models currently on the market. So while we’re almost certain that Apple plans to transition to OLED — or, at the least, a comparable display technology all its own — the plausibility of a device that’s only 0.3 inches larger than the current top-tier iPhone seems like an unnecessary move to make, not even factoring in the cost of research, design, and development that would ultimately have to be invested to create such a device.

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What do you think about the prospect of a whopping 5.8-inch iPhone?


[The information provided in this article has NOT been confirmed by Apple and may be speculation. Provided details may not be factual. Take all rumors, tech or otherwise, with a grain of salt.]

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