The iPhone Is Getting A Dramatic Makeover

However there is a catch. 

The new iPhone has had tech experts talking for months. One of the rumours that has been swirling the tech world is that Apple plans to upgrade to organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays. They eliminate the need for back lighting, they're thinner, flexible and use less battery power than the current LCD displays used in iPhones. While this has been a rumour for the past couple of months the rumour might actually be true. A recent spike in equipment orders makes it look like the new screens are a happening thing after all. 

"It's not a peak or a one-time event," Applied Materials's chief executive officer Gary Dickerson told Bloomberg. "This is going to be sustainable growth. We all know who is the leader in terms of mobile products." But let's not get ahead of ourselves. The company says that because the machines take so long to manufacture, the earliest we can expect the screens to debut is 2017, meaning the next round of iPhones hitting the market later this year won't have them.

Apple are going to have to make some pretty substantial changes to their devices to warrant upgrading from current iPhones and to compete with the ever competitive smart phone market. 

KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who in the past correctly predicted details about the Apple Watch, Apple Pencil, and iPad Pro, thinks the 2017 iPhone will be "a glass-backed device that includes wireless charging and biometric recognitions along with the aforementioned curved glass display and curved casing," according to MacRumors. We definitely didn't see that coming but we're getting more and more excited as 2017 slowly gets closer. 

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