Future iPhones could have bigger and rounder screens with improved Bloomberg reported Sunday.
"Screen size is one of the things where Apple has to catch up to the Android camp," Dennis Chan, an analyst at Yuanta Financial Holding Co. in Taipei, Taiwan told Bloomberg. "Innovation in components has been a key for Apple since the first iPhone came out."
The devices are expected to have glass screens that measure 4.7 and 5.5 inches, two inches smaller than Samsung's two month old Galaxy Note 3 and Apple's biggest smartphone yet.
According to Bloomberg, the company is still figuring out particulars for the phone, which it anticipates introducing for public sale in the third fiscal quarter next year after its iPhone 6 smartphone is released in the 2014 second fiscal quarter. However, the phones are also expected to have upgraded sensors capable of recognizing strain and tension; a feature currently on the iPhone 5S.
Apple's news is the latest development since it recently announced screen-changing plans for its future iPhones. Its next iPhone, the iPhone 6 will have a sturdier screen made of sapphire that cannot be destroyed in a collaborative effort with GT Technologies CNET reported.
The iPhone 6 screen is expected to be plant manufactured from the industrial or gem-like material created from artificial crystal, at a cost more than the glass on phone's made today CNET reported. "Sapphire is much more expensive than Gorilla Glass, heavier, and has other shortcomings; however, it is widely viewed as more difficult to scratch," Brian White, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald told PC Magazine.
GT Advanced Technologies recently announced plans to build a manufacturing plant in Mesa, Ariz. that will produce a minimum 700 jobs in its first year of existence, and 1,300 construction jobs, along with others.
According to PC Magazine, Apple is giving GT Advanced Technologies a $578 million pre-payment, which GT will then reimburse the company for throughout a five year period beginning in 2015.
