2015 is shaping up to be a key year in the smartphone space, with Samsung confirming it will launch a phone with a screen capable of being folded in half.
Smartphone screens have gone from 720p to QHD in a matter of years, and now Samsung has revealed 2015 will see it launch flexible displays capable of being folded in half.
Set to make the LG G Flex and Samsung Galaxy Note Edge look like dated relics of the smartphone space, this futuristic folding screen tech will be offered up on a consumer-available handset by the end of 2015.
Looking to give the company a point of differentiation in the ever crowded smartphone space, Samsung has claimed it will be the only manufacturer capable of producing flexible-screen phones during the coming 12 months.
“We will secure production capacity of 30,000 to 40,000 [flexible displays each month] by the end of next year,” Lee Chang-hoon, Vice President of Samsung Display, revealed yesterday.
Speaking at the 2014 Samsung Investor Forum in New York, he added: “There will be no company [except Samsung] that has this great production capacity by 2016.”
Although focusing on the technologies more than particular products, Lee did tease a flexible-screen phone would go on sale ahead of the 2015 Christmas period.
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Samsung’s promise of a foldable smartphone screen comes just days after LG outlined its future plans for its Plastic-OLED panels.
The other Korean giant revealed it would introduce bending handset in 2015, with foldable devices and even rollable tablets and TVs to follow by 2017.
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Via: ZDNet
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