After waiting for so long, finally Samsung is show - casing
its first flexible display technology this week.
Plastic Logic and Cambridge University recently demonstrated the world's
first flexible display with a graphene backplane.
Now, following this collaboration, Plastic Logic demonstrated the world's
first flexible display that uses a graphene backplane.
Not exact matches
But LG's announcement is not the
first time that
flexible displays has been demonstrated at CES.
Amidst the glitz and glamour of the 2017
Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards gala, what really sparkled were the technical and design innovations on
display, including several «
firsts» in their markets.
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A full - colour
flexible organic liquid crystal
display (OLCD) screen is being shown for the
first time this week.
Discover the
first fully -
flexible, glass - free, active - matrix electrophoretic
display (EPD) on the market: Lectum ®.
Plastic Logic has described the «fully industrialized plastic,
flexible Organic Thin Film Transistor (OTFT) backplane and know - how enabled the world's
first fully organic,
flexible display.»
Having recently achieved significant milestones, including being the
first in the world to fully industrialize the mass - production of
flexible plastic
displays, we are now well positioned to address a broader set of applications and markets throughout the world.»
E Ink and Canatu have just signed a long - term agreement to offer a line of
flexible touch
displays for the wearable market, with the
first product ready for sampling to customers in July 2016.
The focus of Polymer Vision has always been
flexible displays, and they were certainly among the
first to show off such a thing when we heard about the Readius in 2007.
The latest e-reader news has it that E Ink Corporation USA, pioneers in the field of electronic paper
display technology has joined hands with LG.Philips LCD in creating world's
first tablet size
flexible electronic paper
display.
E Ink will start mass production of the world's
first 13.3
flexible EPD
display in 2013.
The company has achieved many technological
firsts including the production of high quality colour rugged plastic
displays, demonstration of animation on an EPD driven by OTFTs and production yields of its
flexible plastic
displays comparable to the LCD industry.
In 2012 LG
first entered the
flexible e-paper arena and developed a screen that was crafted from a
flexible plastic substrate, the
display measuring 0.03 inches (0.7 millimeters) thick and weighs 0.5 ounces (13 grams), making it one - third slimmer and half the weight of currently available glass EPD devices.
The
first ebook reader to hit the market using this new
flexible screen
display is the Wexler Flex One.
This is not the
first flexible ePaper
display Sony's showcased, the company prototyping a while ago 4.8 - inch e-paper device with organic TFTs (thin - film transistors) that use the «PXX,» an organic semiconductor material stable to oxygen, moisture and light.
E Ink Holdings said it will start mass production of the world's
first 13.3 - inch
flexible EPD
display in 2013.
Samsung may well be the
first company to actually deliver on the endless promise that
flexible displays are on the way, with a limited edition Galaxy Note III with a plastic OLED screen said to be in production.
Samsung's Galaxy Round is the
first handset from the company to use a
flexible screen, which curves horizontally (when held in portrait mode,) but doesn't the
display doesn't «spill» over the sides.
Flexible displays are also said to be a whole lot more tougher than usual, since there is no glass to shatter in the
first place, and being able to bend makes them more malleable when subjected to the rigors of everyday use.
LG
Display has also reportedly cancelled the
first phase of their next
flexible OLED line, the P7 (which can be a conversion of LGD's old P7 LCD line).
Apple's 10th anniversary iPhone X is the company's
first OLED Phone - with a 5.8» 1125x2436 (458 PPI)
flexible Super AMOLED
display that covers almost the entire front of the phone, HDR, dual lens camera, a Hexa - core A11 Bionic CPU, 3 GB of RAM and 64/256 GB of storage.
Their transparent and
flexible displays were just a concept when we
first reported on it, but now the company has elegant square tiles available for sale in September.
Rigid e-readers will continue to be the norm for the time being — the
first with
flexible displays won't appear before 2012 or 2013, says Hildebrand.
The company says the operation of the drivers it's written to
display an image on a
flexible screen is a world
first.
In October 2017 Taiwan - based Innolux started to produce its
first flexible AMOLED
display, a round 1.39» 400x400 (287 PPI) panel.
Sony has been using E Ink
displays since 2004,
first with its e-reader devices (it is still offering its large 13.3»
flexible E Ink based reader, but the smaller ones are no longer in production) and later with wearables and other unique products.
A new prototype
flexible display created by the University of Cambridge and UK firm Plastic Logic, represents the
first time graphene has been used in a transistor - based
flexible screen and may well provide the least expensive, easiest to manufacture solution for these devices yet.
We were the
first company worldwide to develop and manufacture glass - free,
flexible electrophoretic
displays (EPD) in our Dresden factory.
The Galaxy Round, Samsung's
first flexible OLED device sports a 5.7» Full - HD (386 PPI) Super AMOLED
display is already shipping in Korea and even reviewed and tested by the
display experts over at DisplayMate.
In December 2005 Seiko released the
first electronic ink based watch called the Spectrum SVRD001 wristwatch, which has a
flexible electrophoretic
display [45] and in March 2010 Seiko released a second generation of this famous e-ink watch with an active matrix
display.
The Galaxy Round, Samsung's
first flexible OLED device sports a 5.7» Full - HD (386 PPI) Super AMOLED
display.
Plastic Logic's
display technology,
first developed at Cambridge University, uses highresolution transistor arrays on
flexible plastic substrates, manufactured at a low temperature.
Its latest
flexible OLED is the world's
first to be made using fully organic transistors — and it's surprisingly pleasing
display could wrap around your entire wrist.
Now, we're probably looking at LG's new
flexible OLED panels here, and the Mi Note 2 could be the
first smartphone to ship with LG's new
display.
Goodix this month introduced its
first optical in -
display fingerprint reader for smartphones featuring rigid or
flexible AMOLED screens.
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.
According to a source familiar with the plans of Apple's
display suppliers, the
first iPhone to have a
flexible display might be released in 2018 — assuming Apple sticks to its current iPhone naming pattern, the iPhone 8 family would get the rumored OLED curved
displays.
Samsung's
first official Smartphone with a
flexible curved
display is the Galaxy Note Edge.
For the
first time ever, Samsung releases two Notes at the same event, and for the
first time EVER Samsung releases an Official smartphone product with a
Flexible AMOLED
Display, Introducing the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Edge.
Without getting into the technical details of the Clear ID FS9500 (the
first in the Synaptics Clear ID product family), it is worth stressing that the sensor is designed to work with as many devices as possible, whether they have
flexible or rigid
displays.
The emerging wearable computing category is perhaps where the most intriguing possibilities lie, but smartphones will apparently be the
first device category to see a mass - market device launch featuring a new
flexible display.
But we may not see these innovations from Samsung
first, as several other companies are also experimenting with
flexible display technology.
Samsung
Display saw its
flexible OLED panel sales cross $ 1 billion for the
first time in its history in the third quarter of this year.
The company achieved what it set out to do and announced the Galaxy Round 17 days before LG announced its
first smartphone with a
flexible display, the LG G Flex.
Samsung successfully patented a new design depicting a smart bracelet with a
display panel that's not only
flexible but partially bendable, as
first reported by Patently Mobile.
The LG V30 comes with a 6 - inch OLED
display, making it the
first LG device to offer an OLED panel aside from the
flexible G Flex smartphone.
Curved and
flexible displays could be a fascinating proposition for portable electronics, but the technology will have to be affordable
first before it can be widely adopted.