By: iPadfanzz staff on January 10, 2013
At a keynote speech Wednesday at the International CES gadget show in Las Vegas, the Korean electronics company demonstrated a phone that consists of a matchbox-sized hard enclosure, with a paper-thin, flexible color screen attached to one end. The screen is extremely flexible that allows you to fold it like a piece of paper.
Citing its present innovation, Samsung hinted at a day when we might fold up our large phone or tablet or phablet screens – just like they were maps.
How It Works: The screen uses organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs. For the bendable phone, Samsung laid the chemicals over thin plastic instead of glass. That's a trick you can't pull off with liquid crystals in standard displays.
Samsung didn't divulge the details about when flexible displays might be commercialized.
At a keynote speech Wednesday at the International CES gadget show in Las Vegas, the Korean electronics company demonstrated a phone that consists of a matchbox-sized hard enclosure, with a paper-thin, flexible color screen attached to one end. The screen is extremely flexible that allows you to fold it like a piece of paper.
Citing its present innovation, Samsung hinted at a day when we might fold up our large phone or tablet or phablet screens – just like they were maps.
How It Works: The screen uses organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs. For the bendable phone, Samsung laid the chemicals over thin plastic instead of glass. That's a trick you can't pull off with liquid crystals in standard displays.
Samsung didn't divulge the details about when flexible displays might be commercialized.
