There has been a lot of excitement around flexible displays in
phones, especially after Samsung showcased its prototype phone with such
a display at this year’s CES. However, it is not Samsung but LG that is
planning to launch a smartphone with flexible OLED in the fourth
quarter of this year, the WSJ reports.
Yoon Bu-hyun, vice president of LG’s mobile division, disclosed about
this first flexible OLED from LG and its possible launch time. He has
also been reported to have mentioned that the bendable displays are made
by the LG Display itself after a long period of research and
development. However, it is not clear how flexible these displays would
be or whether the yields are high enough to go into commercial
production.
LG announced it shipped
10.3 million smartphones in the March quarter, piggybacking mostly on
the success of the Nexus 4, which was sold by Google in multiple
countries. A phone with a flexible display could bring back LG into the
top smartphone vendors list.
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