<p>Apple is to release its newest iPhone in September, with higher resolution and bigger screens, a report said Friday, its latest salvo in the smartphone wars where it has lost global market share to rivals such as Samsung.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The new handset, expected to be called the iPhone 6, is to come in two versions with a 4.7- or 5.5-inch screen, both bigger than the current four-inch panel, the respected Nikkei business daily said, without citing sources.<br /><br />Apple is ordering its higher-resolution liquid crystal display screens from Japanese electronics giant Sharp, Japan Display and South Korea's LG Display, it added.<br /><br />Apple released the iPhone 5 in September 2012 and newer versions in the series last year.<br /><br />A Japan-based spokesman for Apple could not be immediately reached for comment on the Nikkei report, which was widely picked up by a string of technology news websites.<br />The Nikkei story comes after Taiwan's Commercial Times said this month that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. had started producing chips for the next iPhone.</p>
<p>Apple is to release its newest iPhone in September, with higher resolution and bigger screens, a report said Friday, its latest salvo in the smartphone wars where it has lost global market share to rivals such as Samsung.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The new handset, expected to be called the iPhone 6, is to come in two versions with a 4.7- or 5.5-inch screen, both bigger than the current four-inch panel, the respected Nikkei business daily said, without citing sources.<br /><br />Apple is ordering its higher-resolution liquid crystal display screens from Japanese electronics giant Sharp, Japan Display and South Korea's LG Display, it added.<br /><br />Apple released the iPhone 5 in September 2012 and newer versions in the series last year.<br /><br />A Japan-based spokesman for Apple could not be immediately reached for comment on the Nikkei report, which was widely picked up by a string of technology news websites.<br />The Nikkei story comes after Taiwan's Commercial Times said this month that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. had started producing chips for the next iPhone.</p>