Even though earlier rumours revealed that Apple has cancelled the iPhone SE 4 due to concerns over its first in-house 5G chip. A new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that Apple is restarting the development of the iPhone SE with a 6.1-inch OLED display and a custom 5G chip. Now, a report from The Elec in Korea says that it will use OLED display from China-based BOE instead of Samsung and LG displays present in the current iPhone models with an OLED screen.
It was reported that BOE will supply OLED
panels for the iPhone 15 series in 2023, but the new report says that it has
missed the initial volume of OLED panels due to challenges in the production of
OLED screen with a punch-hole / dynamic island, so these have gone to Samsung
and LG instead.
Samsung will still supply OLED panels for
all the iPhone 15 series models released this year. LG Display will focus on
LTPO models for the Pro with relatively smaller production capacity than
Samsung Display, says the report. However, the iPhone 15 and the 15 Plus models
are still said to use 60Hz OLED displays instead of 120Hz LTPO panels in the
iPhone 15 Pro models. Earlier rumours and renders already revealed that all the
models will use Dynamic island.
The iPhone SE 4 with the new OLED screen,
thinner bezels and its own 5G modem is expected to release in 2024.
