Samsung shows off rollable and foldable displays, suggests they'll arrive in 2022
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/05/18/samsung_bets_on_rollable_and/
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Organic light-emitting diodes are the key to the new devices, because displays built using the tech don't need a backlight. The result is paper-thin and flexible panels.
Samsung’s star item was the "S-foldable" smartphone screen that it showed off in a device that resembled a conventional rectangular smartphone that includes two hinges. When either one or both were unfolded, the device's screen "grew" to a maximum of 7.2 inches. A thick bezel on the side unfolded to reveal front-facing cameras and gives the user a handgrip.
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Samsung's foldable screen. Click to enlarge
Samsung also showed off a slidable smartphone screen. The screen gradually extends the viewable field horizontally from standard smart phone size by several millimetres with the press of a button.
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Samsung's slideable. Click to enlarge
Another OLED product at Samsung’s virtual hall was a 17-inch foldable screen that started off at tablet size, then folded out to a small monitor offering a 4:3. Samsung offered the handy descriptive slogan “Carrying Small Seeing Big.”
For notebooks, Samsung presented an under-panel camera that maximizes a screen from edge to edge by minimizing the bezel and places a camera underneath the display. No word yet on the camera quality.
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[5]The four products are in concept stage and expected to be available next year.
The Samsung Display YouTube channel featured a marketing video for a better idea of the products:
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Samsung wasn’t the only company to present rolling displays at SID 2021. [7]LG Display had a 65-inch rollable OLED TV, a 12.8 inch rollable display among their products. China's Visionox showcased OLED rollables as well. ®
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Re: ...and places a camera underneath the display
"underneath" as in "behind", not ""below"....
I thought the same until watching the video, they mean literally under the display - so traditional place and works through the screen.
Last shot of that 3 way foldable phones still suggests its a bit thick
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Meanwhile at Apple...
Tim Cook: How can we reinvent this and claim it as our own?
Marketing droid 1: Make it really, really thin!
Marketing droid 2: Make it in 10 colours!
Marketing droid 3: Make it with a yuge bezel!
Tim Cook: Make it so!
Scale
I wonder how big this will scale. e.g. replace "roll down screen + projector" with, well, "roll down screen"
Re: Scale
For large areas projectors are almost always going to be preferable to panels. It's simple maths: either you need lots more pixel (x * n) or bigger ones. Projectors just need stronger light sources.
However, panels are getting better at being combined together for display purposers.
...and places a camera underneath the display
Thereby enabling previously unprecedented views up the video caller's nostrils.
Why, the one with the ENT doctor badge on it, of course! -->