Here we are: after years of development and tons of false previews on sites around the world, Samsung is ready to launch a new range of smartphones equipped with a flexible screen on the market. “Mobile phones with flexible, nearly indestructible screens that can be rotated, folded and placed in your pocket or wallet” (for this last sentence I smile: is it early yet?).
The keystone in this new technology is the use of OLED screens (organic light emitting diodes), very thin and compatible with a flexible support such as plastic or a metal sheet. The Korean company is not the only one to have invested heavily in the research of flexible OLED-based screens: Sony and LG are advancing rapidly and have developed interesting first prototypes.
The house of the Galaxy S3 won the gold rush by promising, first of all, a launch date for this technology: in the first half of 2013, as reported by an authoritative source (the WSJournal).
Hey: those seem like dates compatible with the release of the flagship phone: the Galaxy s4 could be the next 'foldable' device in history.
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