Global smartphone shipment will increase 7% in 2017. AMOLED-equipped smartphones will enjoy a robust growth at the expense of LCD-equipped smartphones, backed by the wide popularity of AMOLED-equipped devices like S8 series from Samsung and by the widely-expected Apple's upcoming iPhone8/iPhone X that is high likely to adopt flexible AMOLED display. This report tracks and forecasts the shipment of global top 20 smartphone vendors by display panels (AMOLED/rigid, AMOLED/flexible, LCD/a-Si, LCD/LTPS, and LCD/IGZO) from 2014 to 2018. Global smartphone shipments by display panel forecast numbers through 2022 are included as well.