What you should know
- Samsung Display plans to add blue phosphorescent material to OLED screens to reduce power needs
- The change may not occur until 2026 when the iPhone 18 line is released
- The blue phosphorescent material has a lifespan equal to only 55% of the lifespan of the current material
- Samsung hopes to increase the luminous efficiency of the materials by more than 65%
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Smartphone users know that they can improve their battery life by lowering the brightness setting on the screen. Samsung Display plans to add blue phosphorescent material to its OLED screens to reduce power needs. Although this change may not occur until 2026, it is expected to make a big difference. UBI Research deputy director Daejeong Yoon revealed that Samsung is working on creating the blue phosphorescent material. The material being developed has a lifespan equal to only 55% of the lifespan of the blue fluorescent material used in the M11 OLED material set employed on the iPhone 13 series, and Samsung Display plans on using the blue phosphorescence material starting in the second half of 2025. Samsung Display hopes to have the energy-sipping OLED panels ready for the iPhone 18 in 2026. Yoon forecasts that next year’s iPhone 16 line and 2025’s iPhone 17 series will both use the M14 OLED materials set, and Samsung is reportedly using a pattern where Apple devices get the even number OLED material sets and the odd number sets are used by Samsung and Chinese manufacturers. Each set is used for two years. As a result, it would seem that the new blue phosphorescence material won’t be used on an iPhone display until 2026 which, as previously noted, is when we should see the iPhone 18 series released.
