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Samsung Sees Stretchable Displays as the ‘4th Industrial Revolution’

by Bob Raikes

In a talk at the SID Display Week, Dr Sung-Chan Jo of Samsung Display gave a paper 54.1 that set out his vision for stretchable displays in “the 4th Industrial Revolution”. He started his …

LG Chem Develops Foldable Display Material Using New Material Technologies

by Artem Alekseenko

LG Chem developed new technologies that can be used for foldable displays using new materials technologies and its accumulated coating technologies as it enters the next-generation materials market in earnest. Regarding this, LG Chem …

Tags:Foldable Devices| LG Displays (LGD)| Materials

LG Chem Develops Foldable Display Material Using New Material

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Chem announced that it has developed a new coating technology that can be applied to PET to create a material that it calls ‘Real Folding Window’ that is said to …

Tags:Film materials| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 is ‘one of the toughest’ Phones in Durability Tests

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Toms Hardware reported some work done by an insurer, Allstate Protection Plans, that has tested a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and found that is ‘one of the toughest’ phones “The …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung| warranty

Samsung Explains New Foldable UX

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung published a blog post that sets out many of the ways that the new Galaxy Z Series foldable features can be used by supported software. What We Think A lot …

Tags:Android| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Operating Systems| Samsung

OLED Shipments Expected to Increase 12% Y/Y in 2H 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In its weekly data extract, DSCC published an interesting chart that shows the lesser (excluding smartphone main displays) applications for OLEDs on a volume basis (as TVs are included, it would …

DSCC Fills in Details on Samsung Foldable Production

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say We reported on the positive pre-orders for Samsung’s new foldable smartphones last week and now DSCC has published a detailed forecast for Z Fold and Z Flip production plans, comparing 2020 …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung| Smartphone Market

Samsung Display Has a Cool Smart Speaker at IMID 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Display showed a new use case with a speaker fitted with a 12.4″ flexible OLED that can open out under automatic control to make a flat(tish) display. What We Think …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung Display

Nitto Denko Challenges Flexibility With LCD

by Bob Raikes

At the recent Display Week, there were many papers presented on rollable and flexible displays and Samsung set out the importance and significance of stretchable displays. Most of the talks focused on OLEDs, but …

DSCC Upgrades Foldable Forecast

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Yesterday, we covered reports of strong pre-sales for Samsung’s new foldable smartphones and just after we published (of course!), DSCC said that it had released an update to its Foldable/Rollable Display …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Forecasts| Market Data

Samsung’s new foldable phones draw strong preorders: reports

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reported that the new Galaxy foldable smartphones are hitting high numbers for pre-orders. The Z Flip3 and Galaxy Z Fold3 are said to have reached 450,000 pre-orders by …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Korea| Samsung| Smartphones

Samsung Unpacks New Watches & Phones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung opened its Unpacked event with its new smartwatches, talking up improved health, body composition and sleep tracking and highlighting the benefits of its collaboration with Google on software. (Android and …