iPhone 6 to use Quantum Dots Display Technology

While Apple is widely rumored to introduce larger iPhones later this year, more good news are waiting in the wings for consumers. According to a new report, it could feature a superior display technology.

Business Insider reported that Apple could use Quantum Dots technology, which could display colors at an amazing accuracy. Quantum Dots are nanocrystals made of semiconductors, which can produce very specific light frequencies. Its color accuracy is higher than LCD and LED displays.

Quantum Dots: Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX has incredible color accuracy.

While Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX tablet uses Quantum Dots technology, it suffered a "light-bleed issue." Apple has reportedly found a fix while researching on that technology. This was backed up by Patently Apple, which described 4 patent applications by Apple to improve Retina Display using Quantum Dots.

It is still unclear which device will Apple use the technology on, but the iPad Mini with Retina Display was widely criticized for being less accurate than its rivals, notably Kindle Fire HDX. Tim Cook admitted it in an interview with Wall Street Journal:

"What we’ve said is that until the technology is ready, we don’t want to cross that line. That doesn’t say we’ll never do it. We want to give our customers what’s right in all respects – not just the size but in the resolution, in the clarity, in the contrast, in the reliability. There are many different parameters to measure a display and we care about all those, because we know that’s the window to the software."

Well, at least when it is implemented in the new iDevices, we know that the technology is ready and our retinas will be popping once again.


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Written by: Kheng Wei Ang