Sunday, April 21, 2013

Samsung's new flexible mobile phone


The 'unbreakable' mobile phone: Samsung shows off radical paper thin flexible screen


  • -Screen is made by overlaying components onto plastic instead of glass
  • -OLED screens are able to flex easily, and can even be use to create radical 'curved' phone designs

  • Samsung has shown off a radical 'bending' mobile phone that could be virtually unbreakable.
    The Korean electronics company provided a glimpse of such a device at a keynote speech Wednesday at the International CES gadget show in Las Vegas. 
    The screen is expected to find its way in to Samsung handset, although the firm said the devices shown, which ran Microsoft's phone software, were only prototypes.
    Eric Rudder, chief technical strategy officer of Microsoft, holds a prototype Windows smartphone with a flexible OLED display during Samsung's keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

    Brian Berkeley, head of Samsung Electronics Co.'s display lab in San Jose, California, demonstrated a prototype phone that consisted of a matchbox-sized hard enclosure, with a paper-thin, flexible color screen attached to one end.
    The screen doesn't appear flexible enough to fold in half like a piece of paper, but it could bend into a tube, onlookers said.
    The company also showed a video of a future concept, with a phone-sized device that opens up like a book, revealing a tablet-sized screen inside. 
    The screen uses organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs. 
    Only a thin layer of these chemicals is needed to produce a bright, colorful screen. 
    They're used in many Samsung phones already, though with glass screens. 
    For the bendable phone, Samsung laid the chemicals over thin plastic instead of glass.


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