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Samsung's 'Unbreakable' OLED Display Gets Certified (theverge.com)
Samsung Display, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, just introduced a flexible OLED panel that has a transparent plastic cover already attached, emulating the properties of glass but retaining the screen's innate flexibility. The screen is so durability that it's been certified by UL (formerly known as Underwriters Laboratories). The Verge reports: Samsung, describing the new panel as unbreakable, reports that it has withstood UL's military-standards tests of 26 successive drops from a height of 1.2 meters (close to 4 feet) as well as extreme temperatures as high as 71 degrees Celsius (159.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and as low as -32 degrees Celsius (-25.6 degrees Fahrenheit). The OLED display "continued to function normally with no damage to its front, sides, or edges," we're told, and Samsung even went further by performing a successful drop test from 1.8 meters (6 feet).
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.... whose display quality doesn't become lousy after 6-12 months of usage? (Check out the pictures between the phone that had been used regularly and the one that had almost never been used)
I've seen this over and over and over again. I'm never buying any sort of OLED phone until either they can get degradation under control, or they've literally driven LCD phones off the market.
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If they didn't put any cover at all on it, it should also have the same unbreakable properties. Or if the screen cover were just cellophane or plexiglass. Glass is used in large part because it is scratch resistant, chemical resistant, and it can be thin for less optical distortion. I've heard nothing about it's other relevant properties.
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Let's see how well it survives such drops once it's attached to a non-flexible and heavier phone.
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much drop
Give it a week, she'll find a f*cking way to accidentally break it
Seriously, she should have a product testing job or something!
Let's see how well it survives such drops once it's attached to a non-flexible and heavier phone
Let's see how well it survives a battery explosion.
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Market experts expect that 60% of sales will come from video makers on youtube, responding to claims of unbreakability.
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Jesus H motherfucking Christ. Were I publishing something on the internet that would be a testament to the quality of my work and effort, I'd at least fucking TRY to use correct grammar.
What an unthinking moron.
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I guess I have to look at the bright side: Slashdot seems to have muzzled BeauHD's "Russia! Russia! Russia!" fetish.
Drop it so it reaches terminal velocity onto a diamond surface (it's hard). Hit it with a sledgehammer. Run over it with a really big thing. I love how they use the term unbreakable in quotes. It's like using the phrase "almost definitely"...
Hopefully this “unbreakable” thing will turn out better for them than it did for Oracle.
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> Celsius (159.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and as low as -32 degrees pfft... -32C is a cold day in Montreal, but not unheard of at all... Last winter the pleather case for my raybans shatterred when I got my sunglasses out of it in the morning. seems like *military specs* doesn't include the arctic (and Montreal is south of Seattle, not even close to arctic.) I would worry about such a display if it we ever left overnight in the car.
"The screen is so durability"...
For someone with such a hammer fetish, I'm surprised you've never heard of a nail. Hammers only break nails when they are thumbnails.
Take a hammer and a hacksaw to my wedding ring and you'll just ruin your hacksaw and put a dent in the table.
I have an expensive properly calibrated 100% AdobeRGB screen, and while I can see differences, in practice they are truly... meh.
We've have far worse degradation with CRTs in ye olden days, and we lived with it. (It's not like you can't calibrate the screen anyway. And turn up the brightness. Sure, the color space will shrink, but you won't need to suffer from bad colors, if that's your problem. Only when you can't turn the brightness up anymore will it become problematic.)
Did the detailed article list the weight of the screen? Curious how it might compare to existing parts. Seems to me to be a bit bulkier/heavier.
You don't even need the bullet from a firearm or gun, you can use those things as hammers too!
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How about we get any on the market that aren't 2-3x the cost of normal screens first? Please?
... as my internet is unlimited.
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>"The screen is so durability [sic] that it's been certified by UL"
"Durability" means many things. A plastic screen can give and bend. So yes, it might be generally, "unbreakable". But plastic is much, much, much softer than glass. So instead of a broken screen, you end up with a scratched-up-to-hell screen. So that doesn't mean it is more "durable" than high-tech glass.
"Which is better?" (AKA "Pick your poison") Might be the appropriate question.
So does that mean it broke on the 27th drop?
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So what? You're not supposed to drop your $1000 phone from 1.2 meters to begin with.
I sometimes wonder if anyone making a phone has ever used one. I'll take that "unbreakable" as a guarantee, but not as meaningless marketing crap. Surviving a handful of 4 foot drops onto not-gravel does not a phone unbreakable make.
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Would be to give it to a bunch of 6 year olds. If they can't break it, it can't be broken LOL.
That must mean that it failed 27. Not unbreakable.