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Handsets with flexible OLED displays to enter pockets next year, says Samsung

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Handsets with flexible OLED displays to enter pockets next year, says Samsung
Nokia's Kinetic Labs bendable concept might be three years away from being commercialized, as the researchers said, but Samsung's flexible OLED displays are about to hit mainstream in devices much sooner.

During its quarterly earnings Q&A with analysts, Samsung's spokesperson Robert Yi shed some more light on when are we to see products with the bendy OLEDs that Samsung has demonstrated numerous times and that were said to hit the conveyor belts in 2012. He confirmed that timeframe for the launch of mass production, and even said products are coming hopefully "in the earlier part of 2012". 

Does it mean that after what is shaping to be a monster Samsung Galaxy S III we will be waiting on another eye-popping handset from the Koreans? Likely, since Robert Yi hinted that the "application probably will start from the handset side". Sounds yummy, especially if that "application" has something to do with the bendable OLED without crease in the middle that was demonstrated by Samsung's R&D this year. 

Are we about to see phones that open up to become small tablets, or will Samsung just bring some boutique design, curvy and twisted, for bragging rights? The leaks will guide you, my son, said the Jedi, and took off.

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2. bobfreking55 posted on 28 Oct 2011, 07:49 3

Siri. *psssssssssssssssssssh* crap

4. cfprelude posted on 28 Oct 2011, 08:22

might wanna check the definition of innovation buddy.... "something new and different".... Siri (and most things dealing with cell phones) is much more appropriately referred to as "evolution".... its taken some android features and bolstered an further integrated them.

I love all the competition and evolution we're seeing but i wish people would stop referring to everything that happens as "innovative"... that being said, the iphone mightve been the last thing truly innovative.

6. bobfreking55 posted on 28 Oct 2011, 08:40

precisely, no innovation in an iphone.

3. ivanko34 posted on 28 Oct 2011, 08:19 20

I hope they put a patent on it
Oled for everyone and old lcd for the iLawsuit company

5. cfprelude posted on 28 Oct 2011, 08:24 6

amen!!

9. andro. posted on 28 Oct 2011, 09:13 19

Apple already have a patent for bending things over backwards.....their islaves for example,so they will probably try to sue!

28. RORYREVOLUTION posted on 28 Oct 2011, 22:46 2

hahahahaha oh my god that is a classic.

13. jasongohjr posted on 28 Oct 2011, 09:20 3

Yea apple is going to copy them alright

23. rd_nest posted on 28 Oct 2011, 12:57

Maybe something like this:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-Galaxy-Skin-concept-combines-flexible-AMOLED-display-with-bendable-batteries-for-twisted-fun_id20684

I would play anything to get these ultra-cool-space-age stuffs devices...

7. Rayzin posted on 28 Oct 2011, 08:53 4

Now I can look forward to that nifty wrap-around wrist phone I've always been waiting for!

11. jasongohjr posted on 28 Oct 2011, 09:19

And where will the battery be? How long can that phone last?

8. Dark4o90 posted on 28 Oct 2011, 09:13

i don't know but you realize that the phone doesn'need only a display but also HARDware - soc, chips, battery

12. Rayzin posted on 28 Oct 2011, 09:19 2

Those can all be worn on a nifty accessory belt!

10. jasongohjr posted on 28 Oct 2011, 09:16

Now they won't need gorilla glass now :D either than that I don't think here's any use in making a phone That has a bendable screen.... Can they make the whole phone bend? Nah... I don't think so

14. abdane posted on 28 Oct 2011, 09:28

so, the OLED or AMOLED Is Better ? o.O

22. Leodrade posted on 28 Oct 2011, 11:48 4

OLED = Organic Light-Emitting Diode
AMOLED = Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode
The AMOLED tecnology is better because they have higher refresh rates and less power consumption

29. Kease posted on 29 Oct 2011, 18:52 1

And more letters, that's a dead give away...

15. jemolian posted on 28 Oct 2011, 09:38 1

hope it would be too easily broken...

16. WirelessCon posted on 28 Oct 2011, 10:00 2

It's a slap bracelet that's also a phone that's also a tablet!

Let the future come.

17. WirelessCon posted on 28 Oct 2011, 10:04

Then again, In the future we won't even use our hands.

18. MEeee posted on 28 Oct 2011, 10:30 3 3

Apple Awarded Slide-to-Unlock Patent. More lawsuits are coming to Androids.

www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395316,00.asp#fbid=x2E_1d3pXKJ

21. Evooo posted on 28 Oct 2011, 11:45

Ouch...rotten apple.

19. ledbetterp3 posted on 28 Oct 2011, 11:20

I wonder what material they will use to make bendable hardware? Bendy phone chips, bendy battery, bendy processors, and bendy fortified glass?

20. roscuthiii posted on 28 Oct 2011, 11:44

Galaxy Flex, coming your way!

25. joejoe509 posted on 28 Oct 2011, 13:00 2

Galxaxy Flexus? haha

26. roscuthiii posted on 28 Oct 2011, 13:59

Damn, that's even better!

24. joejoe509 posted on 28 Oct 2011, 12:59

I could care less for bendy phones. To be honest those are probably a year or two off. I'm more intruiged in how INCREDIBLY THIN those OLED screens are!!!! WOW! I'm thinking of a next-gen Nexus with a super thin, curved OLED screen. MMMM... Tasty.

27. ash29 posted on 28 Oct 2011, 14:11

Wow would love to have such a phone.After all its unbreakable.But wont fit my budget...

30. asderin posted on 13 Nov 2011, 07:38

Just amazing what they can develop these days oled tv

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