While
foldable display tech has been shown off by a multitude of manufacturers before, Samsung is perhaps the closest to bring it to fruition.
Not exact matches
Samsung isn't the only company working on a
foldable or bendable
display; South Korean
tech giant LG unveiled an 18 - inch
display that could roll up like a newspaper at CES 2016.
In December Patently Apple posted a report titled «A Leading Supplier of
Foldable Display Technology Confirms Five
Tech Companies are Testing
Foldable Smartphones.»
Samsung
Display, the section of the South Korean
tech giant that manufacturers
displays, has sped up research relating to
foldable displays so the device in an effort to release the device later this year.
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.
Mass production of these
foldable display screens will begin in 2018, ETnews can confirm, but a prototype of the same
display screen has already been produced by the South Korean
tech giant.
In fact, the
tech giant has been filing patents since 2009, but up to now, no smartphone has made it to the consumer market with a
foldable display screen.
The screen inside the iPhone X is
foldable as well, and Apple makes use of the
tech by folding the bottom of the screen so that it's able to hide the
display controller and extend the usable portion of the
display all the way to the bottom of the phone.