Ming-Chi Kuo: the iPhone 8 price will start at $1000, active display size is 5.15"
These iPhone 8 schematics may explain why we have such conflicting 5"-5.8" reports over its screen size
His schematics, however, jibe with numerous reports that Apple will be doing away with the Touch ID button on the OLED iPhone 8, while it will be kept on the "regular" iPhone 7s and 7s Plus, or whatever Apple names the whole set. The company might, however, implement other biometric solutions like iris or face scanning technology. The moral of the whole iPhone-with-flexible-OLED story is that Apple will eventually be able to fit a high-res 5"+ panel in a chassis that is about the size of the current iPhone 7, and we can't wait to see how would that puppy look in practice.
This latest memo from Ming-Chi Kuo, however, does explain why we have such conflicting reports about the future iPhone 8 screen size, ranging from 5 inches through 5.2 inches, and then all the way up to 5.8". Naughty flexible displays, always confusing people. Last but not least, the reputed analyst reiterates the prediction that the iPhone 8 will land with a $1000 starting tag, which is not hard to fathom, given that the cost of producing it will be 50%-60% higher than that of the regular models. After all, we calculated that just the flexible OLED panels that Apple has reportedly ordered from Samsung, will cost $70 apiece, as opposed to less than $40 on the current iPhone 7. The Galaxy S8 and LG G6 are also said to come with higher tags than their predecessors, but that's apparently the price to pay for the "all-screen," "bezel-less" trend in 2017.
source: Apple Insider
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