IPhone 5 screen Wider

The fifth-generation iPhone to be launched this year is rumored to have a larger screen than the iPhone 4S series.


The screen on the iPhone 5 will be an area of ​​4 inches or 0.5 inches wider than the sail iPhone 4S 3.5 inches. Wall Street Journal also writes iPhone Apple reportedly begin producing this June 5.

To the plan, Apple is known to have cooperated with producers such as LG Display Co., Sharp Corp. and Japan Display Inc, which is a joint venture of three companies and the Japanese government.

The addition of this screen are part of how Apple anticipate competition in the smart phone market which is marked by the advent of widescreen phones. Samsung Galaxy S III, mobile phones, launched earlier this month had a 4.8-inch landscape display, one of the largest smart phone screen there.

Apple tries to survive with a 3.5-inch screen, since the first series of the iPhone launch in 2007 until 2010 iPhone 4S years ago, 3.5-inch iPhone screen fixed. However, the tendency of smart phones that are competing to have the big screen, can not be ignored by Apple.

Apple now has to face the increasingly fierce competition, especially from Samsung. According to Strategy Analytics market research, in the first quarter of this year, Samsung has sent 44.5 million smartphone units and controls 30.6 percent of the global market. This performance exceeds that sent Apple 35.1 million units to 24.1 percent market share.

The analysts even projected by Samsung smartphone shipments will double this year.