«Samsung Invents a New Kind of
Flexible Foldable Display that they refer to as the «Variable Curvature Display» Main Samsung Wins Two Distinctly Different Foldable, Dual Display Smartphone Concept Patents»
Not exact matches
We have been constantly been promised
foldable e-paper
displays and hardware vendors always show off
flexible displays that are applicable to laptops, ultrabooks, e-readers and e-paper.
Flexible displays are primarily OLED and AMOLED
displays which are either curved, bended or completely bendable and
foldable.
Lenovo recently demonstrated two new
foldable device prototypes that use
flexible OLED
displays.
Tianma demonstrated its
flexible and
foldable AMOLED
displays at MWC 2018 earlier a couple of weeks ago, and the following video shows a nice tour of the
displays at Tianma's booth.
Our vision is to reach
foldable and even stretchable
displays using organic transistors — since our transistors are themselves fundamentally
flexible, and in combination with truly
flexible frontplanes like OLED, the entire
display can be made to fold in half.
By ditching the glass screen usually found on e-book readers, such as Amazon's Kindle International Edition — reviewed here — LG said it was able to create a
flexible - but not
foldable —
display that still maintains «excellent
display characteristics».
It's not exactly a
foldable phone in the way you think — there's no
flexible display.
Rumors of a
foldable phone have been swirling around Samsung (SSNLF) ever since the company showcased a
flexible display at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2013.
Samsung has been working on
foldable displays for a number of years, and the South Korean giant might finally be ready to showcase its first completely
flexible smartphone in 2018.
Considering Samsung's proven track record at mass - producing new
display tech, it seems plausible that the electronics giant can deliver on a
foldable,
flexible smartphone.
TechRadar speculates that the mention of
foldable screens could be hinting that the company is already experimenting with
flexible display technology like the one that is being rumored for Samsung's highly anticipated Galaxy X phone.
The
foldable /
flexible display shown in the graphic above is designed to appear as one giant
display once the user unfolds their smartphone.
The above image shows how a
foldable iPhone will have an all screen design (14, 14E, 14M) which can bend around an axis (16) having a central
flexible display area (14M) separating two halves that are likely to be flat.The patent also lists possible
display technologies — LCD, OLED and Micro LEDs.
In the filing, Apple states that the
foldable display will have a
flexible region where the
display can bend along an axis to allow it to fold without breaking the
display.
The source confirms that instead of trying to go all
foldable which is very difficult to accomplish immediately, the company plans to use LG's
display to create
flexible phones that will not be as hard as Gorilla glass or the usual models found so far.
Samsung
Display, meanwhile, will obviously provide
flexible OLED screens to Samsung for the
foldable phone.
What Samsung wants to do for its Galaxy X
foldable smartphone is to place a
flexible AMOLED
display to make its in - folding design to work.
Samsung has long been working on multiple designs for smartphones with
flexible and
foldable displays, and the company has filed various patents regarding such devices.
Apple's work explains how the two parts of a
foldable device would be coupled, the proposed hinge technologies, and the
flexible OLED
display that would be needed for such a smartphone.
«Samsung Electronics is developing a «dual - screen» smartphone that uses a flat
display on each side and a
foldable smartphone that bends a single
flexible OLED
display.»
Samsung is said to have two
foldable smartphone models in mind for the market, one with a dual -
display setup, the other with a single
flexible display, despite its hesitancy over market demand for mobile's next frontier.
Foldable displays seem to be different from
flexible displays, which Samsung already uses in its Galaxy S8 and Note 8 flagships.
In July, The Investor reported that Apple invested $ 2.70 billion in LG
Display so that it could secure
flexible OLED panels for the
foldable iPhone.
Flexible display: The Samsung Galaxy X is expected to have a
foldable display.
According to the patent, the new
foldable Apple iPhone will come with a
flexible display screen to enable folding, just like it happens with a flip phone.
The company has been trying to make
foldable displays for the past few years, but maybe a new advancement has made the
flexible devices possible.
At the end of last month, Park Weon - seo, chief research engineer for
flexible displays at LG, told the Wall Street Journal that
foldable displays were «next» for smartphones.
Foldable displays are likely far from becoming a common device trait anytime soon, but truly
flexible displays are already here in the sense that companies are already working on them and trying to integrate them with devices, and with Samsung's Galaxy X on the way you can bet other major brands are working on something too.