Upcoming Xiaomi phones to feature Samsung AMOLED screens

Peter, 17 July 2017

Samsung Display and LG Display are in a tug of war for customers for their OLED offerings and the Samsung side just scored a win – Xiaomi placed an order for 6” rigid AMOLEDs. 1 million are set to be delivered this December, then 2.2 million in January.

This comes after the company allegedly tried to source 5.5” flexible OLED panels from LG, but the deal fell through as LG Display’s manufacturing plant will start production three months later than expected.

Xiaomi already used such a panel for the Mi Note 2 (1080p resolution) and was expected to use a newer generation (QHD resolution) for the new Note. Keep in mind that the flexible/rigid here means whether the phone will have curved screen edges or not - we're not talking flexible phones here.

Anyway, Samsung has tens of millions of AMOLED panels to produce for the iPhone 8. And there’s talk that Apple will move to using exclusively OLED displays in 2018 (though it’s up in the air who will score that order).

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Reader comments

Informant
11 Sep 2017
Nwm

People bashing oleds because of pwm, are stupid. How do you think ips panels can have varying brightness? They also have pwm to reduce brightness and power consumption.

AnonD-501213
21 Jul 2017
L11

Amoleds screens are never the best for any eyes :) Just because they blinks with brightness less than 100%. So IPS rules here.

Aspros
18 Jul 2017
JbG

Oleds are the best, Samoleds are the best of the best, especially ever since they focused on producing accurate colors. Now they have the best battery usage, best contrast, sun legibility and somehow even top luminosity! The S8 has the best display e...