Few people doubt that there is a future in flexible displays. Although the global pandemic has slowed down the rapid rise of folding and flexible phones, this does not mean that their development will stop. Korean giant Samsung is the leader in this area and according to what it presented at the Display Week event this week, it will not just give up this title.
Samsung currently offers two types of flexible displays, the larger of the smartphone Galaxy Z Fold 2, and a smaller one, which he put on the phone for a change Galaxy Z Flip. Among the newly introduced forms of the flexible display, there is a 7.2 ″ panel that can be bent in two places (which is already speculated), a display that can be pulled to a larger size (as shown, for example, by prototype TCL) or a giant 17 ″ display that, when folded, resembles a tablet with an aspect ratio of 4: 3 and, when unfolded, is intended to function as a monitor for a change.
–A competitor from TCL is also trying to use a phone with a slide-out display
–The flexible tablet can be used as a monitor after disassembly
–Cameras under the display are also used in notebooks
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In addition to the display panels, Samsung also showed a selfie camera hidden under the display. In the place where the camera is hiding, Samsung allegedly “increased the throughput of the display”, so the location should not affect the quality of the image. Such a camera is suitable not only for modern phones, but in conjunction with a large flexible panel, it also opens up the possibility for frameless laptops.
Also worth noting is the newly published video from Samsung, which shows the possibilities of using the introduced flexible panels in practice. Let’s hope that in the near future we will really see such a device. It is speculated that a “leader twice” bent could be introduced by a technology leader within the next year.
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