Back in March, we reported that Apple could upgrade its iPhone screens to organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays. Because they eliminate the need for backlighting, OLED screens are thinner, flexible, and use less battery power than your phone’s current LCD display. In other words, the upgrade could mean curved screens and a longer-lasting battery. But that was just a rumour, right? Well, thanks to a recent spike in equipment orders, it looks like those new screens might be happening after all. According to Bloomberg, the company that helps produce these OLED screens, Applied Materials Inc, has seen an almost four-fold increase in orders. “It’s not a peak or a one-time event,” Applied Material’s chief executive officer Gary Dickerson told Bloomberg. “This is going to be sustainable growth. We all know who is the leader in terms of mobile products.” But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The company says that, “because the machines take so long to manufacture, the earliest we can expect the screens to debut is 2017, meaning the next round of iPhones hitting the market later this year won’t have them.” Because people are happy with the iPhones they already have, Apple needs to make changes significant enough to push people to upgrade. Consumers don’t want baby steps, they want dramatic, visible ones. The patent Apple filed in 2011 for a flexible OLED display was cylindrical, so with that in mind, we have to wonder: what could these OLED screens look like? KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who in the past correctly predicted details about the Apple Watch, Apple Pencil, and iPad Pro, thinks the 2017 iPhone will be a glass-backed device that includes wireless charging and biometric recognitions along with the aforementioned curved glass display and curved casing, according to MacRumors. Well, we sure didn’t see that one coming.