Foldable Devices – Page 13

OTI Lumionics Helping With Foldable OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

I reported on a talk by materials technology start-up, OTI Lumionics after the Business Conference during Display Week last year and this week I had the chance to catch up with CEO Michael Helander …

Tags:Foldable Devices| OLEDs| Rollable Displays

Xiaomi Flash Sale Shows ‘Lust for Foldables’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi said that it had its first ‘flash sale’ of the Mi Mix Fold smartphone in China and sold $61 million worth of devices in one minute to sell out completely. …

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Huawei To Release 3 New Foldable Smartphones in 2H21

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that Huawei, which launched the foldable Mate X2 a couple of months ago, is planning three new foldable devices in the second half of last year. Digitimes Research believes …

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

TCL Shows Fold AND Roll Concept

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL has shown a new smartphone concept that combines foldability and rollability. The condensed version has a 6.87″ that unfolds (it’s outfolding) to 8.85″ – already quite large. However one side …

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Panels or Sets?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the course of a recent correspondence with Ross Young of DSCC, he mentioned that sometimes we have referred to forecasts for foldable devices that are higher or different from those …

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UBI Sees UTG Dominating in Foldable Covers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In digging around about the Omdia OLED materials market article today, we spotted a forecast from UBI research that we missed a few days ago on the Elec. UBI said that …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Glass| OLED Materials

Samsung’s Z Fold 3 Thinning Innovations Could Make All Flexible OLEDs Brighter

by Barry Young

In Samsung’s quest to make OLED panels thinner, the company discovered a way to increase the luminance by 20% to 30%. The typical OLED panel configuration, includes: An active matrix using LTPS or IGZO …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| OLEDs| Polarisers| Samsung Display

Samsung To Boost Foldable, but LG still Hesitating on Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Samsung wants to boost the sales level of its folding smartphones to around the level of its Note series of smartphones at over 10 million handsets per year. …

Tags:Foldable Devices| LG Electronics (LGE)| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Samsung| Smartphones

Android Authority Like the Huawei Mate X2

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Android Authority reviewed the new Huawei Mate X2 foldable smartphone and was very impressed. It likes the fact that when folded, the phone has a traditional 21:9 aspect ratio with a …

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TCL Huaxing’s Foldable Screen Shipments to Surpass BOE

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A market research agency, Magirror Research, sent us a report that claims that TCL Huaxing, based on success for the Motorola Razr folding smartphone, would make more shipments than those of …

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DSCC Report Predicts Foldable Smartphones to Surge from 2H’2021 – Samsung Galaxy and Samsung Display to Remain Dominant

by Artem Alekseenko

DSCC expects to see a significant surge in foldable smartphone shipments from August with record months for shipments each month from August to December. In fact, Q4’21 foldable/rollable smartphone shipments are expected to be …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Foldable Devices| Samsung| Smartphones

Lenovo X1 Fold Gets A Review

by Bob Raikes

What They Say One of the interesting experiments in using foldable displays is the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold and T3 has reviewed the unit. T3 found that the brightness was just under 300 cd/m² …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Lenovo