{"id":8155,"date":"2012-03-22T07:43:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T05:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=8155"},"modified":"2012-03-22T07:51:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T05:51:19","slug":"apples-new-iphone-to-feature-a-bigger-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/8155\/apples-new-iphone-to-feature-a-bigger-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s new iPhone to feature a bigger display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc&#8217;s new iPhone will have a sharper and bigger 4.6-inch &#8220;retina&#8221; display and is set to be launched around the second quarter, a South Korean media reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of the iPhone, first introduced in 2007 with the touch screen template now adopted by its rivals, account for around half Apple&#8217;s total sales.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has decided on the bigger 4.6-inch display for its next iPhone and started placing orders to its suppliers, the Maeil Business Newspaper said, quoting an unnamed industry source.<\/p>\n<p>Its major display suppliers LG Display and Samsung Electronics Co declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung, which is also the biggest challenger to Apple in smartphones, uses 4.6-inch OLED display for its flagship Galaxy S II smartphone, introduced in April last year.<\/p>\n<p>The high-definition &#8220;retina&#8221; display&#8211;containing several times as many pixels within the same area&#8211; is used in the latest iPad released earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The latest iPhone 4S was introduced in October last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc&#8217;s new iPhone will have a sharper and bigger 4.6-inch &#8220;retina&#8221; display and is set to be launched around the second quarter, a South Korean media reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,51,209,505,2050,52],"class_list":["post-8155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-lg-electronics","tag-rumours","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8164,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions\/8164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}