SEOUL (Reuters) - Apple Inc's new
iPhone will have a sharper and bigger
4.6-inch "retina" display and is set to be launched around the
second quarter, a South Korean media reported on Thursday.
Sales of the iPhone, first introduced in 2007 with the touch
screen template now adopted by its rivals, account for around half
Apple's total sales.
Apple has decided on the bigger 4.6-inch display for its next
iPhone and started placing orders to its suppliers, the
Maeil Business Newspaper said, quoting an
unnamed industry source.
Its major display suppliers LG Display and Samsung Electronics Co declined to comment.
Samsung, which is also the biggest challenger to Apple in
smartphones, uses 4.6-inch OLED display for its flagship Galaxy S
II smartphone, introduced in April last year.
The high-definition "retina" display - containing several times
as many pixels within the same area - is used in the latest iPad
released earlier this month.
The latest iPhone 4S was introduced in October last year.
-- Yahoo!