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LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays

Posted by samzenpus on from the try-and-break-it dept.

Zothecula writes "LG today announced that it is to start mass producing flexible OLED display panels for smartphones. The company says that its technology uses plastic substrates rather than glass, and claims that a protective film on the back of the display makes it 'unbreakable' as well as bendable."

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  1. What is the point of this? by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So what is the use case if we still have a glass plate in front of the display?

    If no glass plate this thing would be scratched to hell and back in a couple minutes.

    1. Re:What is the point of this? by decipher_saint · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Maybe the idea is to make fixed but not flat screen.

      Fancy digital watch smartphone hybrid things?

      How long before iBall is what I want to know lol

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    2. Re:What is the point of this? by RenderSeven · · Score: 3, Funny

      Name one flexible material that is transparent and as hard as glass?

      Transparent aluminum? Its even possible that I invented it.

    3. Re:What is the point of this? by mythosaz · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It's about choice.

      Sure. Just give me a phone with the same processing power, the ability to take a call in speakerphone mode in a loud car, a screen large enough for my should-wear-bifocals eyes, and a non-carrier-based, unlocked-out-of-the-box stock from-Google ROM. It's a short list, and I picked the HTC.

      I prefer being able to keep my phone in a pocket with my keys and not worry about scratching the screen. You seem to be having a different experience, but I'm willing to sacrifice a TINY bit of screen clarity for a good deal of protection for my phone.

      People who want a flexible screen will enjoy not having a phone that shatters as often when dropped and will be willing to sacrifice some clarity over hard-glass screens for it.

    4. Re:What is the point of this? by Baloroth · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Name one flexible material that is transparent and as hard as glass?

      Well, glass for one. Seriously, Corning has a flexible glass called Willow Glass, probably because they saw flexible and curved OLED displays coming (it's probably not as hard as Gorilla Glass, but then, what do you expect from flexible glass).

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  2. TFA by mythosaz · · Score: 4, Informative

    TFA is so sparse on details that it's painful.

    After rounding, there's roughly zero information about this in the linked "article."