Apple’s Plan to Make an iPhone Without Samsung’s OLED Panels Not Really Working

Apple has a dream of reducing reliance on Samsung and building an iPhone that doesn’t come with OLED screens manufactured by the South Korean company, but up to this point, all the work in this regard doesn’t seem to be going exactly as anticipated.

And it’s all because BOE, one of the companies that Apple has turned to for the manufacturing of OLED panels, has failed to pass quality control tests, according to a recent report.

The Chinese display maker has already manufactured LCD panels for a series of Apple products, including the iPad and the MacBook, but it’s now working on expanding production to OLED as the Cupertino-based tech giant is moving the entire iPhone lineup to this display technology.

At the same time, BOE could also help Apple have a backup supplier for the iPhone, as right now, some 80 percent of the OLEDs used on the latest-generation models are produced by Samsung.

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