Samsung Galaxy A8s to have LCD Infinity-O display, made by BOE
According to an unconfirmed industry report, Samsung could turn to Chinese display maker BOE to produce the Infinity-O panel for the upcoming Galaxy A8s.
What's more interesting is that the panel could be of the LCD variety, instead of OLED, as a cost-saving measure.
BOE is currently tasked with making the 6.39-inch OLED display on the Huawei Mate 20 Pro. Speaking of Huawei, we know it will try and beat Samsung to the first smartphone with a hole in the display, so can we guess that its smartphone will also use a BOE-made LCD.
Producing an LCD with a hole is no doubt harder than producing an OLED with one. The camera cutout in the Galaxy A8s' display will reportedly be 6.7mm and it's speculated that the Galaxy S10 will have a smaller 2-3mm cutout.
The Samsung Galaxy A8s will house a Snapdragon 710 chipset, 6GB of RAM and a 3,000mAh battery. It's bound for announcement in January, but some rumors suggest it will be out before the year's end.
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- AnonD-731363
- 03 Dec 2018
- SH3
In case of a Samsung phon not more than a 5-10% because Samsung same as Apple cannot and they will never sells cheap.
- Panda eyes
- 30 Nov 2018
- 6jA
Ah this makes sense, especially as its a China release and is an A-s variant. I imagine it will be cheaper as awhole to compete with local Chinese OEMs. I wonder how much cheaper it will be though
- Guy
- 29 Nov 2018
- BMa
Better chose than 3 cm notch...
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