iPhone 5 shortage caused by laborious new thinner in-cell display technology
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This shortage in the in-cell display panels used in the iPhone 5 comes despite the fact that Apple has recruited not only its traditional display manufacturing partners LG Display Co. and Japan Display Inc., but also Sharp. Still, production of those in-cell panels has proven to be much more laborious.
Sharp in particular has been struggling to meet the booming demand. Still, this shortage is nothing like you’re used to seeing - Apple managed to sell 5 million iPhone 5 over the opening weekend with that shortage in mind. Moreover, this shortage will likely be one that display manufacturers will overcome quickly, but it’s just not yet clear exactly when.
source: Bloomberg
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14 Comments
2. prakesh posted on 25 Sep 2012, 07:04 5 12
samsung admit they recall all pebble blue due to poor quality of batt cover. thats why having delay the shippment of all pre-order pebble blue.p
why apple cant?!
out in the box dents
leak light in dark place
very phrone to scratch aluminum back?
3. hung2900 posted on 25 Sep 2012, 07:05 7 0
Oh I thought that sending back iDented/iChiped/iScratched iPhones is the culprit of shortage.
4. StephenGalop posted on 25 Sep 2012, 07:07 4 2
Both are :) along with flawed iOS 6 maps that get every iPhone user lost in the oblivion.
5. andro. posted on 25 Sep 2012, 07:09 2 0
This is nothing new,every year there is iphone "shortages",the new phone launches,sells out,is out of stock for a month,comes back in stock in limited numbers then is out of stock again for nearly another month and so on repeatedly. By the time ifans alot of ifans manage to get one the next one is only about 6 months away from launch and the apple 'next iphone is gonna have everything thecurrent failed to deliver" rumours are in full swing in order to get ifans drooling and frantically saving cash again. Its like some sort of a apple funfair ride that keeps ifans stuck in an endless cycle and never lets them off
10. frydaexiii posted on 25 Sep 2012, 07:44 2 2
lol, So they have trouble doing what Samsung has been doing for years now? Typical
11. AppleHateBoy posted on 25 Sep 2012, 10:48 0 0
At least iPhone 5's display is calibrated properly. That's my only complaint about Super AMOLEDs.
12. WilliamJE posted on 25 Sep 2012, 11:01 1 0
I figured it was because of all the FOXCONN Kung-Fu parties as of late...
14. Jobes posted on 25 Sep 2012, 11:37 1 0
For some reason when I heard about the Foxconn brawl.... I had a mental image of the movie Kung Fu Hustle.. poor people in a run down apartment fighting suits.
13. AppleHateBoy posted on 25 Sep 2012, 11:08 1 0
Well. Why not make the Cover Glass(Gorrila or whatever) in-cell too? That will make it even more thinner. And expensive too.
15. yajia1 posted on 26 Sep 2012, 01:24 0 0
This has happenned before, and will continue to happen in the future. I work for AT&T, processing preorders and orders-through-phone. This 6th gen iphone is by far the hardest thing that ever happenned to our lives (the agents). >.
