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Re:Next-Gen Display: MicroLEDs by flyinfungi on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:09PM (#16649854)
What is a reasonable time to see this in my next phone? 2020? Looks really cool, with the screen being the biggest battery hog I hope to see a bump in battery lasting through the day (otherwise we get thinner phones).
Re:Next-Gen Display: MicroLEDs by hristov on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:06PM (#16650537)
It won't be on your phone by 2020. It is not clear whether it will ever be on your phone. The iphone 8 has about 3 million subpixels which will all have to be individually cut, tested and assembled on a display for a microled to work.

Or, alternatively, the display can be made from a whole wafer, which will cost about a thousand dollars for the raw materials and perhaps $5k for the finished display.

I know technology tends to advance a lot, but the advances required for microled to work seem really far fetched. Also, display technology does not advance as quickly as digital computation technology. Remember we have been talking about OLEDs for at least 20 years now and they are only now becoming mainstream.

This technology, if it ever works, will be for very small devices where brightness is very important but resolution is not that important. So smart glasses and smart watches. Even for those applications it is not at all certain that they will be able to bring the cost down sufficiently.

Re:Next-Gen Display: MicroLEDs by 6d6b73 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:13PM (#16650604)
Re:Next-Gen Display: MicroLEDs by abritinthebay on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:51PM (#16652072)
At 146 inches of screen. With very visible pixels when up close.

Now get that to 300-400 dpi in the palm of your hand. That's the issue with getting it "working" in a phone. Quite different.