Apple's upcoming iPhone 8 is not going to be cheap because of the high cost of its new display, said a senior executive of a subsidiary of Foxconn, a major contract manufacturer of iPhones. "The yield rate of the free shape OLED is only 60 percent!" "The cutting of free shape OLED is apparently highly difficult and of course will not be cheap. Media reported that Samsung Electronics is the supplier of Apple's OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays. News websites in the U.S. and China have speculated that Apple's upcoming flagship smartphone will come with a price tag between US$1,000 (approximately NT$30,000) and US$1,200 (approximately NT$36,000)

Source: The China Post August 08, 2017 06:33 UTC