Apple Inc. (AAPL): Shedding Light On Its OLED Plans?

And while the iPhone’s LCD Retina display may currently have the edge in other categories like accurate color reproduction, brightness, and white balance, I can’t imagine Apple — with all its vast resources — would find it that difficult to make the necessary tweaks to an OLED screen. In addition, keep in mind that critics have hailed the 55-inch OLED TV from LG as possibly the most lifelike television ever, with its near-infinite contrast ratio, zero motion blur, wide viewing angles, and rich colors — and all at just 4 millimeters thin.

LG OLED Television, Image Source: LG.

If that weren’t enough, as I’ve noted before, OLED also allows device makers to create screens that can be flexible, transparent, and nearly indestructible.

Foolish final thoughts
If LG’s capex investments can solve the problem of supply, then, and if Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s new OLED hire — who, incidentally, helped lead LG’s OLED TV effort — can translate these advantages into an Apple device, Tim Cook could easily step out and say, “Look! We’ve fixed everything I said was wrong with OLED displays. Behold our amazing new device.”

Mark my words, then: I’m going out on a limb to say at least one of Cook’s “surprises” will include the first ever Apple device to utilize an OLED display. When that happens, investors will see Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s stock in a whole new light.

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Fool contributor Steve Symington owns shares of Apple and Universal Display. The Motley Fool recommends Apple, Goldman Sachs, and Universal Display and owns shares of Apple and Universal Display.

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