Apple's new iPhone will use bigger 4.6-inch display

Apple Inc's new iPhone will have a sharper and bigger 4.6-inch "retina" display and is set to be launched around the second quarter, a South Korean media reported on Thursday. Sales of the iPhone, first introduced in 2007 with the touch screen template now adopted by its rivals, account for around half Apple's total sales. Click here for Cloud Computing Also Read Related Stories News Now - Investigated for reports of excess heat - Apple sells 3 mn new iPads within 3 days of launch - One more thing - Apple sells 3 mn new iPads within 3 days of launch - Apple rewards investors with dividends, buyback - Berkshire succession under scrutiny Apple has decided on the bigger 4.6-inch display for its next iPhone and started placing orders to its suppliers, a foreign business daily said, quoting an unnamed industry source. Its major display suppliers LG Display and Samsung Electronics Co declined to comment. 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. The high-definition "retina" display - containing several times as many pixels within the same area - is used in the latest iPad released earlier this month. The latest iPhone 4S was introduced in October last year.