Rumors point to Apple testing color E Ink for future, flexible secondary displays – so why not on the iPhone 14?
Isn’t it just like Apple to wait on an emerging technology until it gets good enough to meet its exacting standards? The company is, according to a new report from keen Apple Analyst at TF International Securities Ming-Chi Kuo, finally testing flexible color E Ink displays for future foldable devices. We’ll assume that these devices are future folding iPhones and future folding iPads. But why wait? Who wouldn’t love a secondary screen on the back of the iPhone 14, which we think is coming in September or October of this year. Before we dive into this, let’s take another look at Kuo’s rumor, which we also reported on here. Color electronic ink displays, which work off reflective light, as opposed to backlighting, are not new. Companies like Qualcomm have been showing them off for well over a decade. But it’s only recently that they’ve achieved color, refresh, and battery-life standards that might make them a viable alternative to, say, the flexible OLED screens favored by most folding-device manufacturers.
