Not exact matches
Our vision is to reach
foldable and even stretchable
displays using organic transistors —
since our transistors are themselves fundamentally flexible, and in combination with truly flexible frontplanes like OLED, the entire
display can be made to fold in half.
Rumors of a
foldable phone have been swirling around Samsung (SSNLF) ever
since the company showcased a flexible
display at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2013.
Probably not,
since «Pistachio Ice Cream» (yum, by the way) should add support for phones with multiple screens and
foldable displays as well, and the Pixel 3 can't be all those things.
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
foldable design could allow Samsung to use larger
displays on its phones, especially
since the South Korean company has recently unveiled a prototype of a rollable OLED screen at the SID 2016 event in San Francisco.
The Samsung Galaxy X has been rumored ever
since Samsung showed off a
foldable display at the Consumer Electronics Show 2013 in Las Vegas.
Since the company sources OLED
displays for its smartphones from its
display - making subsidiary, that part of the company has to start producing
foldable OLED panels before the mobile division can put a device together and launch it.