The 20th anniversary iPhone will adopt a Samsung-made OLED technology called COE (Color Filter on Encapsulation) to make the display brighter and thinner than previous panels, according to ETNews.
“Apple plans to apply COE to bar-type smartphones in 2027 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the iPhone launch,” an unnamed “industry official” told the publication.
Rumors about about the upcoming iPhone revamp. Apple is developing a 20th anniversary iPhone for 2027 that may have a ETNews has previously reported.
This lines up with a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. He says the 20th anniversary smartphone will have a mostly glass, curved iPhone — without any cutouts in the display.
Also, according to ETNews, the 2027 iPhone will likely have “Mobile High-Reverse Memory (HBM),” a memory that significantly increases the signal transmission speed (bandwidth) by stacking DRAM.
