The latest rumour is about the Apple iPhone 8. An executive at Sharp said the iPhone 8 will step up from cheap LCD screens to OLED screens. Not necessarily the AMOLED screens built by Samsung and used in all the top notch phones but at least they will be OLED.
Sharp is now owned by Foxconn, the people who make the smartphones branded as iPhone by Apple. Foxconn make many brands of smartphones in Chinese factories the subject of slave labour accusations and several reports of workers committing suicide.
Sharp make the LCD screens currently used by Foxconn in their iPhones. Steve Jobs main talent was buying the cheapest components and making them look stylish in the showroom. The cheap LCD screens are a real pain in Australian sunlight, one of the reasons so many Australians choose Samsung smartphones with genuine AMOLED screens.
Apple's catchup in the iPhone 7 was water resistance. Apple advertised water resistance as if it is magic but they did not spend the money to actually make the iPhone special, like the several existing waterproof smartphones.
Previous attempts by Apple to catch up included full size screens years after Samsung, Sony, Nokia, and some really cheap Chinese brands added full size screens.
Apple is also trying to boost interest in the iPhone by releasing a new version of iOS with "new wallpapers". Wow? A far simpler solution that would really wow people would be to switch to an open source operating system so that anyone can install any wallpaper they like plus any application, any theme, any anything.
My next smartphone might be the new Kodak smartphone containing a genuine camera. Or is it a new Kodak camera containing a smartphone. There are some really interesting smartphone choices when you grow out of the Apple fan stage.
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