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.
Not exact matches
And while we have already covered
foldable tablets and dual - screen phones from every possible angle
so far, there is another patent (pending) from Samsung in South Korea that shows a typical Samsung like solution to how a tablet with just a
foldable tablet on one side, and no
display on the other side, can still be made to function like a phone, with calls, text messages, and other notifications being available in a side bar.
A report last year said that Apple chose LG
Display to go forward with its
foldable iPhone plans rather than Samsung
so that its biggest rival in the smartphone business would not catch wind of Apple's designs.
In a fully - open position, the dual
displays can sit back - to - back
so the user needs to flip the device to view the opposing
display,» Microsoft explains why a
foldable phone - phablet - tablet makes sense.
According to then patent, Samsung's
foldable handset could come with pressure - sensitive technology,
so that its
display could gauge different degrees of pressure.
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.
In April 2017, Samsung
Display's principal engineer Kim Tae - woong said there was still plenty of life in the Infinity Display found on the Galaxy S8 and soon - to - be-released Galaxy S9, so there was still plenty of time to develop a foldable d
Display's principal engineer Kim Tae - woong said there was still plenty of life in the Infinity
Display found on the Galaxy S8 and soon - to - be-released Galaxy S9, so there was still plenty of time to develop a foldable d
Display found on the Galaxy S8 and soon - to - be-released Galaxy S9,
so there was still plenty of time to develop a
foldable displaydisplay.
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.
As it turns out, this
so - called «
foldable smartphone» is not the highly anticipated Samsung device with
foldable display.
«Rather than having a super large primary
display, you could have a
foldable phone that becomes an even larger
display,
so that if you're doing some content creation, you have a larger surface area to work on.»
We have yet to see the first mass produced smartphone with
foldable display,
so some time will pass until a phone with rollable
display actually arrives.
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.
We've heard
so much about
foldable displays and
foldable phones over the last few years that, at this point, I really just want one to be publicly released.