GT Advanced, which earlier had a deal to supply sapphire displays for Apple devices, will sell the furnaces in its factory to repay Apple.
Apple may test the waters of a sapphire-screened phone by limiting the tough but pricey material to a single version of the next iPhone this year, claims analyst Gene Munster.
A recently granted patent application describes a method by which Apple would place OLED or other flexible displays around the sides of a mobile device.
Don't confuse it with the Galaxy Round. The new displays will angle from the front around to the side of the upcoming smartphones.
The new and bigger iPhones reportedly will also use sapphire as the material for their screens and come with more pixels per inch than the current model.
The device hasn't been officially announced, but it's possible the Neo could be making an appearance sooner rather than later.
That's the word from CIRP, which says that the iPad Air accounted for 41 percent of all US iPad sales. The iPad 2 hung on with 5 percent share.
Android, BlackBerry, Brian Blair, enterprise, iOS, Mobile, QWERTY, smartphones, Wedge Partners