Samsung Confirms Plan To Make Foldable Displays for Major American Company (macrumors.com)
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- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/10/01/1740257/samsung-confirms-plan-to-make-foldable-displays-for-major-american-company
- Source link: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/29/samsung-plan-to-make-foldable-displays/
> Samsung Display president Lee Cheong has confirmed plans to [1]make foldable smartphone displays for a major American company , which is widely believed to be Apple. As reported in Chosun Biz, Cheong last week told journalists in Seoul that the company is accelerating preparations for mass production of OLED displays designed for foldable smartphones to be supplied to a "North American client." He declined to provide further information about the client, but it is widely expected to be Apple.
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/29/samsung-plan-to-make-foldable-displays/
It's Texas Insturments!! (Score:4, Funny)
For the TI-84f, with an all-new foldable display and the same guts it's had since the 90's! Be the envy of your AP Calculus class!
iCrow (Score:1, Interesting)
Apple probably poured piles of R&D into developing their own folding tech, but now must admit Samsung won that research contest.
Although an alternative view is they think it's a passing fad and thus not worth their own R&D spending.
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Apple doesn't produce their displays, flexible or otherwise.
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> Apple probably poured piles of R&D into developing their own folding tech, but now must admit Samsung won that research contest.
Not to support Apple, but this is super silly argument. Apple does not and never has made their own displays.
But why? (Score:2)
Is anyone actually using a foldable? What's the usability advantage?
I've seen them in the wild, I don't really understand their appeal.
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> Is anyone actually using a foldable? What's the usability advantage?
I don't know. Are they?
> I've seen them in the wild, I don't really understand their appeal.
Oh... you've actually seen people using them! So... yes.
Re: But why? (Score:2)
Apples iphone will be about the size of a blackberry (so pocketable) and when unfolded the size between a pro max and a ipad mini.
This solves the problem with the big screen phones which are much better* to use but awkward to carry.
I will be interested to see what they do.
I still wish they had went to a folded size between watch and half an iphone. Which opened to iphone size. This could be the apple pocket watch or similar.
Maybe something actually new from Apple,next year? (Score:2)
Their gimmicks (transparency, the solution to a problem no one ever fucking had) aren't working anymore to drive sales.
At least they'll actually have something different next year, instead of the same 'ol revision of what they've been making the last 5 years (even if this 'new' thing has been done by everyone else for those last 5 years).
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I thought their gimmick was to release a "thinner" version of the previous model while and ignoring that people want better battery life.
Re: Maybe something actually new from Apple,next y (Score:2)
Except iphone have gotten thicker each year since iphone 6, upto now which brings us the thickest iphone in the 17 pro series. Other than the air which is the thinnest they have made and a new product.
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Why do we expect anything other than an incremental increase capabilities? Should we expect anything other than "a little faster, with a slightly better camera"?
Actually, now that I think about it, what was the last new feature added to a phone that you found to be:
Cool
Not a potential risk
Something you'll probably use more than once?
For me, it was wireless charging. Using my phone to pay for things just sounds like an increased attack surface for my bank account. Using my face to unlock it sou
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> Why do we expect anything other than an incremental increase capabilities?
Because it was Apple (and every other manufacturer, but mainly Apple due to they yearly cycle everyone else copies) that set those expectations, long ago.