Ambitious? Yes. Impressive? Yes. Practical? Er–more of a novelty don’t you think?
Imagine going to work then showing your colleagues how far your phone’s screen can bend — that’s pretty cool, right? But what exactly is the purpose of a flexible screen on a mobile phone?
Well, if you think that I was ranting then you completely thought wrong. The Korean electronics giant, Samsung has just announced a few days ago that their flexible display technology will be ready for primetime sometime in 2012, probably around the same period that their Finnish-based mobile phone competitor, Nokia will be releasing an official version of their bendable concept handset.
Samsung has been showcasing their flexible Super AMOLED displays for quite some time now and we’re yet to see when they’ll be able to let the consumers do the screen ‘bending’ for themselves. Samsung’s history in pursuing their goal of making flexible displays relevant in our daily lives started when they acquired Liquavista back in January earlier this year, Liquavista is a Dutch company that specializes in developing/producing displays that are flexible, brightly colored, can be transparent and consumes considerably less power than traditional mobile displays with the help of a special process called electrowetting.
According to Samsung, due to the ability of the electrowetting display to quickly manipulate individual pixels within the thin-film, electrowetting displays are more than 70 times faster than existing e-ink displays, which will allow for color video in which e-ink displays currently fail to deliver.
A flexible display may seem like a novelty at first but once you try thinking out of the box, the technology can actually serve a lot of purpose. Since the display is more resilient to stress/crashes, cracked LCD screen will soon be a thing of the past. Gorilla Glass displays, bendable digitizers and unlimited materials to choose for a flexible handset chassis will all take mobile device durability to a whole new level… bending phones are extremely pocketable so that’s another great thing.
This report was originally posted on PopHerald.com as Samsung bendable Google Android smartphones next year?, under Gadgets and Mobile Category. Sources: Pocket lint, Venture beat.
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Imagine going to work then showing your colleagues how far your phone’s screen can bend — that’s pretty cool, right? But what exactly is the purpose of a flexible screen on a mobile phone?
Well, if you think that I was ranting then you completely thought wrong. The Korean electronics giant, Samsung has just announced a few days ago that their flexible display technology will be ready for primetime sometime in 2012, probably around the same period that their Finnish-based mobile phone competitor, Nokia will be releasing an official version of their bendable concept handset.
Samsung has been showcasing their flexible Super AMOLED displays for quite some time now and we’re yet to see when they’ll be able to let the consumers do the screen ‘bending’ for themselves. Samsung’s history in pursuing their goal of making flexible displays relevant in our daily lives started when they acquired Liquavista back in January earlier this year, Liquavista is a Dutch company that specializes in developing/producing displays that are flexible, brightly colored, can be transparent and consumes considerably less power than traditional mobile displays with the help of a special process called electrowetting.
According to Samsung, due to the ability of the electrowetting display to quickly manipulate individual pixels within the thin-film, electrowetting displays are more than 70 times faster than existing e-ink displays, which will allow for color video in which e-ink displays currently fail to deliver.
A flexible display may seem like a novelty at first but once you try thinking out of the box, the technology can actually serve a lot of purpose. Since the display is more resilient to stress/crashes, cracked LCD screen will soon be a thing of the past. Gorilla Glass displays, bendable digitizers and unlimited materials to choose for a flexible handset chassis will all take mobile device durability to a whole new level… bending phones are extremely pocketable so that’s another great thing.
This report was originally posted on PopHerald.com as Samsung bendable Google Android smartphones next year?, under Gadgets and Mobile Category. Sources: Pocket lint, Venture beat.
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