According to the sketches of the patent, we can see that the device will be featuring a
single flexible screen.
Companies including Vivo and Xiaomi launched handsets
with flexible screens in 2016, and many other manufacturers have plans to develop curved or foldable smartphones in the near future.
Researchers from the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield have developed a new prototype semi-transparent, graphene - based LED device that could form the basis of
flexible screens for use in the next - generation of mobile phones, tablets and televisions.
The announcement does not come as a surprise though, since the South Korea tech giant has been experimenting on
flexible screens in the recent years.
The latest news from a source within Amazon is that the Kindle Paperwhite 3 will be using a
new flexible screen technology called Mobius.
One or more
electronic flexible screen or display devices can optionally be configured to collapse 208 and roll up into housing members 204 or 206 for portability.
The shaved model, which doesn't have wi - fi and relies on cable to transfer texts to the device, was funded partly through a large investment from Rusnano; the success of that transaction and resulting device set the stage for the new
flexible screen device.
It first flaunted its invention of a 4.5 -
inch flexible screen at CES 2011, then it introduced another prototype in 2013.
Yu said that it could be ready as early as next year, but it needs a better,
more flexible screen technology and mechanical design.
Fujitsu showed off a concept for a device based on a similar kind of large,
flexible screen at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
The start - ups include companies that make rocket engines for spacecraft, sensors for autonomous navy ships, and printers that
make flexible screens that could be used in fighter - plane cockpits.
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Thin,
flexible screens such as the one showcased by LG could allow the creation of newspapers that change daily, display video like a tablet computer, but that can still be rolled up and put in your pocket.
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.
Source: «Smartphone Makers Race to
Build Flexible Screens,» The Wall Street Journal (Nov. 4, 2013) and «LG Electronics Unveils Curved Smartphone in Race Against Samsung,» Reuters (Oct. 28, 2013)
Screens contain a lot of components, and manufacturers of
flexible screens need to find a way to avoid gradually tearing their connections as users subject them to stress.
In 2016, a Silicon Valley start - up called Kateeva that makes machines that
print flexible screens raised $ 88 million from a group of Chinese investors.
Generally speaking, there is a significant overlap between the two devices with both of them sporting many of the same specs and features, including a 5.99 - inch display along with a
curved flexible screen and an 18:9 aspect ratio, -LSB-...]
While LCDs can now be manufactured with curved glass screens, OLEDs can be manufactured with
entirely flexible screens on a plastic substrate.
I am glad Amazon is moving ahead with the flexible technology, but let's not forget the Wexler FlexOne, which came out sporting LG's
flexible screen about two years ago.
Gomes, A., Carrascal, JP, Visser, A. and Vertegaal, R. MagicScroll: A Rollable Display Device with
Flexible Screen Real Estate and Gestural Input.
But I'll go ahead and keep up the tradition and make a prediction for 2013 e-book sales anyway: based on the lack of innovation in e-readers (yes, we have lighted e-readers, but no color or
flexible screens yet) and the saturation of the market, I predict that e-book sales will continue to slow their rate of increase, perhaps increasing another 20 - 25 % over this year's sales figures, which would put 2013 e-book sales between $ 1.75 and $ 2 billion.
Former Apple supplier JDI just showed off its
own flexible screen last month, but it noted that won't begin mass production before 2018.
Sources of SamMobile's said way back there will be two variants of the Galaxy S6, one with a normal flat display and the Galaxy S6 edge with a slightly
wrapped flexible screen.
Given that we'll be adding technologies
like flexible screens and color eInk screens (hopefully sometime this century), it makes sense to go to 7 ″ and perhaps even 8 ″ Kindles.
Apple's granted patent covers an apparatus and method for delivering mass media and multimedia information to a digital periodical or advertising device preferably using Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and having an
electronic flexible screen or display.
As tech company LG demonstrated this summer with the unveiling of its 18 -
inch flexible screen, the next generation of roll - up displays is tantalizingly close.
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Phones with curved displays like Samsung's own Galaxy S7 Edge are forerunners of devices with
more flexible screens.
Other companies are working on phones
with flexible screens or dual screens similar to the rumored Samsung models, including Lenovo, Oppo, and JDI.
By showing off a phone with
a flexible screen, Samsung is hinting at a day when we might fold up our large phone or tablet screens as if they were maps.
For more detail on the how
the flexible screen is made, see this recent Future Tech article.
HP Labs is developing a prototype for
a flexible screen that could be used in products from computers to smart phones to e-books.