Samsung gets a lot of hate for copying Apple’s first iPhones, but boy how the tables could turn in 2017. According to yet another report, the iPhone 8’s new OLED display will be curved on both sides — just like the Galaxy S7 edge’s.
While this year’s iPhone is likely to look a lot like the iPhone 6s (and the iPhone 6), we’re anticipating a much more substantial refresh next fall. Reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has predicted Apple will introduce a new “all-glass” design.
Countless reports have also promised Apple’s first OLED smartphone displays, and some even say they will be curved — just like Samsung’s. Now IHS Technologies analyst Kevin Wang is backing up those claims after speaking with sources in Apple’s supply chain.
Wang reports that the iPhone’s cover glass will wrap around the left and right sides of the device, giving the appearance that it has no bezels on either side.
Wang’s latest post on Chinese social network Weibo comes just a day after he revealed Apple will finally ditch the 16GB storage option for this year’s iPhone 7 series, making 32GB of storage the minimum.
Many believed curved smartphone displays were little more than a gimmick just a few years ago — and some still do. But Samsung has seen incredible demand for its Galaxy edge devices, which has helped its smartphone sales bounce back.
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard the iPhone 8 will have a curved display. Apple has also patented smartphones with flexible, wraparound screens. But it’s still a little difficult to imagine the company going down this route.
Via: Mobipicker
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
9 responses to “iPhone 8 could be a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge clone”
Kuo Shmuo bullshit and Killian ding-dong his Bells. :D
There are so many other things I’d like to see, rather than this gimmick.
Yeah, like 3D touch which revolutionized the smartphone industry..
Here’s hoping they pull their plus-only nonsense here and just give 4.7″ users a nice flat oled screen at 1080p. I don’t need my text and images to look like a Dali painting.
if the iPhone looked like the picture, that’s not a clone of the Galaxy Edge. Yeah, it has curved glass, but I wouldn’t confuse the two. The curve is more gentle of a radius than the Edge, which makes it more useful. But since Apple has not released a product, we can’t really say anything since the finished product is nowhere to be seen.
Yes…let’s call out Apple for copying with a phone they haven’t released yet that’s based on a rumor. Great article.
So we’re running a story about a possibility that Apple might at some dimly beheld future time, create a phone that shares one design feature with a Samsung phone… Seriously? Slow news day.
Am I the only one who want’s less glass on my phone? That’s not in reference to actual screen size, but in reference to a phone in which the screen extends completely to the edge of the phone or beyond. I don’t want a glass back, or glass sides. I mean who doesn’t use a case? Even as it is, some cases that extend too far onto the bezel cause the user’s finger to lift off the glass. I mean, if the phones could be made durable enough to survive without a case, that’s another thing, but again, most people’s life-styles require at least a thin case for protection.
That being said, I don’t use an Edge, and am open to opinions on why this is a feature that would be useful enough to overcome the potential downsides.
Most iphone users will think the curved oled screen, the water resistant, the wirless charging, is an apple world first and say Samsung copied. Because they buy the same phone year out year in, the S7 by all tech sites is crowned the best phone in the world.