{"id":46214,"date":"2012-03-22T07:41:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T05:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=46214"},"modified":"2012-03-22T07:42:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T05:42:39","slug":"next-iphone-to-feature-4-6-inch-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/46214-next-iphone-to-feature-4-6-inch-display.html","title":{"rendered":"Next iPhone to feature 4.6 inch display?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Apple Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple Inc&#8217;s<\/a> new iPhone will have a sharper and bigger 4.6-inch &#8220;retina&#8221; display and is set to be launched around the second quarter, a South Korean media reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of the iPhone, first introduced in 2007 with the touch screen template now adopted by its rivals, account for around half Apple&#8217;s total sales.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has decided on the bigger 4.6-inch display for its next iPhone and started placing orders to its suppliers, the Maeil Business Newspaper said, quoting an unnamed industry source.<\/p>\n<p>Its major display suppliers <a title=\"LG Display Co Ltd\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/383689-LG-Display\">LG Display<\/a> and <a title=\"Samsung Electronics Co\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/333656-Samsung\">Samsung Electronics Co<\/a> declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung, which is also the biggest challenger to Apple in smartphones, uses 4.6-inch OLED display for its flagship Galaxy S II smartphone, introduced in April last year.<\/p>\n<p>The high-definition &#8220;retina&#8221; display&#8211;containing several times as many pixels within the same area&#8211; is used in the latest iPad released earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The latest iPhone 4S was introduced in October last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc&#8217;s new iPhone will have a sharper and bigger 4.6-inch &#8220;retina&#8221; display and is set to be launched around the second quarter, a South Korean media reported on Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":29938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,605,1125,383,645],"class_list":["post-46214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-lg","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46216,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46214\/revisions\/46216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}