Items tagged with flexible-display
Corporate espionage is something that companies all over the world have to deal with. The latest major manufacturer to deal with the ramifications of corporate espionage is Samsung, as nine people have been indicted in South Korea for stealing Samsung's folding display trade secrets and selling them to China. Samsung showed off this folding display tech when it unveiled the folding Galaxy smartphone earlier this month. That smartphone is tipped to sell for as much as $2,500 and be limited in availability. While the people who sold the data can be brought to justice, there is no putting the genie back in the bottle, and the fear is that the stolen tech might end up in smartphones from Chinese...
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Will Samsung soon unveil a flexible OLED smartphone? Lately the answer to that question may be as reliable as a Magic 8 ball. One source, however, has leaked that Samsung will likely reveal its dual-screen smartphone prototype sometime in the next few months. The dual-screen smartphone may be a preliminary prototype for Samsung’s supposedly bendable smartphone, the Galaxy X. Recent patents revealed that the the middle of the phone is essentially a hinge that allows the entire device to fold in half. Ideally the Galaxy X would only incorporate one OLED screen. According to an anonymous source, “Samsung seems to be testing the waters with the dual-screen device to gather ideas about its upcoming...
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It seems as though our smartphones continually become faster and more capable with each passing year, but how we actually interact with them has changed very little since Apple first introduced the iPhone. Researchers from the Queen's University Human Media Lab in Ontario, however, have come up with a new type of flexible display technology that is sure to grab your attention. The researchers have developed what they call a “HoloFlex” OLED display with a resolution of 1920x1080. While that seems like a pretty standard display for a mid-range smartphone, what makes HoloFlex so interesting is that there are actually 16,000 minuscule fisheye lenses — each representing 12-pixel circles — covering...
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The race to deliver a smartphone with a flexible display is heating up. LG announced this morning that it will begin mass producing flexible OLED panels designed specifically for smartphones. We’ve seen large curved displays on TVs from the likes of LG before, as well as smartphone display prototypes, but the fact that they’re going into mass production means that LG believes that have a final product that’s ready for the big time. “LG Display is launching a new era of flexible displays for smartphones with its industry-leading technology. The flexible display market is expected to grow quickly as this technology is expected to expand further into diverse applications...
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If you’re anything like us, you’re probably hankering for some hard details on Samsung’s next killer smartphone, the Galaxy S4. Well, tough nuggets, because there’s nothing official about the phone coming from South Korea. Instead, we have a number of rumors swirling around the device, some of which are likely to be true, and others that (sadly) are not. It appears likely that we’re headed for an official March announcement; there’s possibly going to be a Samsung Unpacked event in Moscow, and sources have indicated an announcement coming on March 15th or 22nd. A release on either of those dates could bring about the device’s availability by the third...
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