Last month it was reported Apple has held discussions with suppliers Samsung and LG in December over increasing the production of OLED screens, a significant step forward from the LCD screens the Californian tech giant now uses in its handsets. “But since gold is now trading at more than $1,200 per troy ounce, it’s among the most valuable materials it pulled from all those old gadgets”, the report said.
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Scarily, the dodgy site looks nearly exactly like Apple’s real one – meaning victims are far more likely to fall for the scam.
The iPhone 7, due for release in September later this year, is unlikely to feature such radical design overhauls. Since the glass back will be heavier than the aluminum that has been used for the back of the device, Kuo expects the weight savings by moving to the AMOLED display to offset the gain from the new back. AMOLED displays have been tooling around on Android devices for a couple of years, and the first AMOLED smartphone was 2008’s Nokia N85 (a Symbian device).
“We introduced Liam, a line of robots that can disassemble an iPhone every 11 seconds and sort its high quality components so they can be recycled, reducing the need to mine those resources from the earth”, she said.
It is unclear how Apple will be able to engineer an all-glass design.
Accordingly, it’s easy to imagine Apple needed the extra year to do something significantly different.
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The glass classing is also be ideal for wireless charging and boosting antenna reception.
