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A growing number of analysts say the iPhone 8 won't feature a curved screen after all

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A growing number of analysts believe the iPhone 8 will have a flat screen, as opposed to the widely rumoured curved screen.

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Apple is expected to announce an iPhone with a 5.8-inch OLED display and no Home button in September. The curvature of that display is a hot topic.

Numerous reports have suggested the screen on that new device will be curved, but an increasing number of iPhone watchers believe it will actually be flat.

"We anticipate Apple will adopt a flat implementation of OLED design on their special iPhone model, which is analogous to the current 2.5D glass design," IHS Markit analyst Wayne Lam told MacRumors last week.

"Much like the recently announced LG G6, we anticipate a touchscreen with a new longer aspect ratio design to take advantage of higher coverage area of the iPhone in its entirety," he added. "This new design language is expected to become the trend for 2017, as we all anticipate Samsung's reveal later this month."

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KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has also dismissed the curved-screen rumors. He said he expected Apple's next flagship iPhone to have a screen similar to those of previous iPhone models, with very slightly curved edges. The Chinese research company TrendForce said the same.

The Wall Street Journal, The Korea Herald, Nikkei Asian Review, and Barclays analysts have published reports predicting that the new iPhone will have a curved screen.

Apple hasn't officially announced anything to do with the new iPhone, including its name, so these are largely educated guesses at this stage.

The coming Samsung Galaxy S8 device is also expected to have a longer OLED display with slim bezels and no physical home button after leaked photos revealed what the device might look like.

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Speaking with MacRumors, Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate said he did not have any inside information on the iPhone 8, but he did say that OLED displays made out of a glass substrate were cheaper and "available in much higher production volumes" than curved OLED displays that rely on a flexible plastic substrate.

"The existing iPhone 7 has 2.5D cover glass with a flat glass LCD display, so Apple could make a similar 2.5D OLED display using a glass substrate OLED display at lower cost and much higher production volumes," he reportedly said.

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