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Samsung Says It's Working On Foldable Laptop Displays (theverge.com)
In addition to the foldable smartphone that's currently in the works, Samsung says it is also working on foldable laptop displays. "Like foldable smartphones, Samsung is collaborating with display makers to develop laptops with foldable displays that will not just simply fold in and out but create new value and user experience, amid the changing market trends for laptops," said Lee Min-cheol, vice president at marketing for PCs at Samsung, during a laptop event in South Korea earlier this week. The Verge reports: Foldable displays in laptops could transform the market for 2-in-1 devices. Existing convertible laptops attempt to flip and twist into tablet and media modes, but a foldable display would certainly help create new designs. Samsung hasn't revealed which companies it's working with, or any expected date for a prototype or retail device. Still, laptops like HP's new Spectre Folio would be an ideal candidate for a flexible and foldable display, or even potential devices like Microsoft's "pocketable" Surface.
Now Iâ(TM)ll be able to fold my laptop display.
Ah we can fold if we want to, we can leave your LCD behind
Cause your LCD don't bend and if it don't bend
Well then that screen's not fine.
I say, we can bend what we want to, with techniques that blow the mind
And we can make products from out of this world
Leave the flat screens far behind,
And we can bend
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"create new value and user experience" => a new gee whiz gadget for you to express your personal uniqueness, drama, and quirks by owning.
Alternative Right.
No. What's your other stupid idea?
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I just want one that I can site on without it breaking. Cell phone not laptop.
I'd like an ultrawide laptop without trackpad (think Sony Vaio P, Planet Gemini, GPD Pocket), where screen height can be doubled by unfolding.
Amazing how these Samsung foldable display things always turn up about a week away from the next Apple conference. Like their foldable phones etc. which magically reappeared in the press just before the release of the last iPhone batch.
They've been saying it for years. Don't get bye wrong - I'm sure they actually are working on them and I'd like to see one. I'm just bored of the whole crank-out-a-foldable-display-story-one-week-before-an-Apple-conference routine.
Have you even tried fried chicken?
Foldable laptop displays have been around for twenty years. I had one.
The tricky part is making them work again once they're unfolded.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I wish laptop manufacturers would have another go at this
I've got a rock hard apple iphone 6 in my pocket that experienced a little erectile disfunction but works fine. Samsung is constantly talking about their flaccid screens.
No one ever sketches out a viable device, not even at a conceptual level with these things.
It's always just, "a foldable display could save space yet give you a large screen when you want it!" And that's where the conceptual exploration stops. The entire message seems to boil down to, "if we could make it work, it could work." Imagine that!
Seriously, how could this work? OK, imagine a durable, foldable display. Is it like a stiff piece of plastic that needs to be rolled up? OK, so you have something like a scroll from ancient times, pre-Gutenberg. Now, how do you talk on this device in phone mode? How do you carry this device without damaging it? How do you operate this as a touch screen, when the device is flexible and wants to fold whenever you touch it? Maybe you don't touch it?
Or maybe it is louvered, like window blinds. Does the device want to collapse on it's folding axes every time you touch it? Maybe it 'locks open' somehow? Is the image quality compromised at the seams of the folds?
Perhaps it is a conventional rigid clamshell form factor, with a continuous screen spanning the 2 sides. Now the screen bridges a hard hinge? Or is the screen itself the only thing connecting the 2 portions of the clamshell? Seems like a lot of work to engineer a known weak point, only to get something little different than a clamshell with 2 conventional screens.
I'm starting to think that "foldable screens" are merely the newest fad talking point. Something that is never going to come to pass, but supports mega hours of pointless tech speculation. Cold fusion! Graphene! Bubble memory! Germanium! Carbon nanotubes!
There's never anything presented in the way of a viable concept sketch. Nothing that makes you say "hey, that's a really interesting and innovative device form factor. That could work!"
If you need a pocket PC you already have on in your smartphone? At some point you shrink a PC so much it becomes a option to even use one if you have a bigger smartphone. It would be like taking a Surface Go and making it a folding screen. Does that make it any more useful or functional?
I really want rollable screens, So I can roll my map / computer with touch screen up, like a map. :) . I wonder if there are any objective studies on that? Has someone done the math, do round this or boxes make the best use of space? Assuming the round this can bend a little bit?
It would be really cool to have satellite image of where I'm standing come up whenever I unroll my map.
Folding is cool too , but I fell rolling really make for better use of size
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It is the unfolding and remain useful part that is hard.