Samsung unveiled its Youm
flexible display technology at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show and showcased at the 2014 CES a flexible display prototype made with a plastic substrate, which works well with AMOLED displays.
Samsung has notably been working
on flexible display technology for some time, and many believe this curved display smartphone could be Samsung's initial market test, which may pave the way for flexible display devices in the future.
New
flexible display technology from Plastic Logic promises good things, too, however the main problem remains not how to display text, rather it is how to link different versions of the same text together for use across devices, because what we call «books» today are now available in many different contexts and interfaces.
It will be the
first flexible display technology that will go into mass production for a large format digital paper product based on Sony's own flexible Thin Film Transistor (TFT) tech.
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.
While we're unlikely to see this iPhone design used in the iPhone 6 or really any other iPhone over the next couple years, it does seem like something Apple might release in the future
once flexible display technology matures.
Since its founding in 2006, NanoLumens has built a portfolio of more than 20 international families of issued and filed patents on
its flexible display technology that effectively address the commercial market void between relatively small flat - panel displays and huge, limited application LED boards.
The company has shifted its business model away from marketing e-readers that use
their flexible display technology and instead will license it to other companies.
Thanks to
flexible display technology, splinterproof plastic displays are on the way to replace glass screen displays which are prone to crack easily if handled a little out of the way.
«This is another step in the direction of radically new interaction techniques afforded by smartphones based on thin film,
flexible display technologies» says Roel Vertegaal (School of Computing), director of the Human Media Lab at Queen's University who developed the flexible PaperPhone and PaperTab.
The company has been showing off
its flexible display technology since at least 2012, and last year introduced the Galaxy Note Edge and Galaxy 6 Edge, both of which feature curved displays.
Perhaps plastic OLED displays are
the flexible display technology that we may see in the near future, which may then pave the way for innovations in the way devices are shaped.
The Galaxy Round, however, reportedly does not use
any flexible display technology.
Samsung originally introduced
its flexible display technology, called Youm, at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show.
It's safe to say that the Round was not what most of us expected from
flexible display technology, after Samsung teased it for years as a game changing feature.