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Samsung's 'Unbreakable' OLED Display Gets Certified (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the displays-of-the-future dept.

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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  1. The screen is so durability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Queen called. She wants her language back.

  2. Have they also invented an OLED screen... by Rei · · Score: 4, Interesting

    .... 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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  3. Scratch resistance? by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:Scratch resistance? by oic0 · · Score: 2

      My first thought was... Im going to put a tempered glass screen protector on it lol.

  4. Real world tests by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 2

    [...] the new panel [...] withstood UL's military-standards tests of 26 successive drops from a height of 1.2 meters[and] continued to function normally with no damage to its front, sides, or edges.

    Let's see how well it survives such drops once it's attached to a non-flexible and heavier phone.

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    1. Re:Real world tests by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 3, Funny

      What do you mean? African or European beetle?

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  5. Youtube sales by RyanFenton · · Score: 2

    Market experts expect that 60% of sales will come from video makers on youtube, responding to claims of unbreakability.

    Ryan Fenton

  6. Hopefully by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 2

    Hopefully this “unbreakable” thing will turn out better for them than it did for Oracle.

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  7. Survived 26 drops, huh? by mark-t · · Score: 2

    So does that mean it broke on the 27th drop?

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