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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 …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Pen Input| Samsung| Smartphones| Under-Display Cameras

Samsung’s Latest Foldables Show Benefits of Refinements

by Bob O'Donnell

If you look back at the history of many important tech product introductions, an interesting pattern tends to emerge. Even products that—at their debut—seemed to be remarkable breakthroughs, often didn’t really make their true …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung| Smartphones

Kglass to expand into Chinese foldable UTG market

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec reported that a display glass processing firm, Kglass, will expand into China via a South Korean software firm, Softcen, which will take a 40% share in Kglass. It will …

Tags:China| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Glass| Korea

Chinese Brands to Use UTG in New Foldable Phones

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec has a detailed round-up on the topic of barriers for foldable smartphones and highlighted that there is a significant move to Ultra-Thin Glass (UTG). The article details the suppliers …

Tags:Corning| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Glass

Samsung likely to unveil three foldable phones on Aug. 11

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald forecast that Samsung will announce three new foldable phones in its event on August 11th which will be livestreamed from Seoul. There will be a Galaxy Z Fold …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Forecasts| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphones

Links Week Commencing 21st June 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Nvidia Shield gets Google’s new Android TV …

Tags:Android| Consoles| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| LG Electronics (LGE)| Nvidia| Samsung| SID Display Week 2021| Smartphones| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD (4KTV)

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DSCC Marks Corning Samsung Win for UTG in Foldables

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say DSCC has a new report on foldable and rollable smartphones and published a blog article that revealed some highlights including news of a win by Corning in sharing supply for the …

Tags:Corning| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Glass| Market Data

Samsung Display to begin foldable OLED panel production for Google in October

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Samsung Display is to start supplying foldable OLED panels to Google, Vivo and Xiaomi in October according to TheElec. Google will use a 7.6″ display, while Vivo’s is expected to have …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Google| Samsung Display| Smartphones| Xiaomi

 Letsgodigital Creates Renders of Flip 3/Fold 3

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Letsgodigital has shown some product renders of the anticipated Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 which were created by designer, Giuseppe Spinelli. The new model is expected to have a larger 1.83″ …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung| Smartphones

Kolon supplies CPI film for Xiaomi’s foldable phone

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that Kolon Industries said that it had supplied its colourless polyimide (CPI) film to Xiaomi to be used in the Mi Mix Fold smartphone and that target sales …

Tags:Film materials| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices