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Folding Screen For Mobile Phones Unveiled

Posted by kdawson on from the real-estate dept.

sumj sends in word out of a Taiwanese research institute of a folding display on a smartphone that allows its screen to double in size to 5 inches (slideshow here). It's a prototype at this point. Don't bother clicking for the article's second page — it's one sentence with an interstitial before.

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  1. Don't bother... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't bother clicking for the article's first page.

    It's just renders, not even a prototype.

    1. Re:Don't bother... by mobby_6kl · · Score: 3, Informative

      Click here instead. Here's another version. This video's pretty shitty in terms of both visual quality and cinematography, but at least it seems legit. It shows Samsung's foldable OLED scren prototype, built into a smartphone-ish form factor. I don't recall any specifics, and unfortunately searching for it just returns a bunch of identical blog posts.

      The concept is pretty exciting, but can't help but wonder about the durability of this thing, the regular wiring in the laptop screens seems to fail due to folding often enough as it is.

  2. Looks a bit like... by FreakCERS · · Score: 5, Informative

    .. the one samsung displayed not too long ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2SCZvU8sGU

  3. Dashed hopes by Aceticon · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was hopping for something like a roll-up OLED screen with in a bendable plastic base.

    Instead what we get is basically 2 traditional color LCD screens mounted on a swivel.

    Nothing to see here ....