Showing posts with label bendable display. Show all posts
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Soon after Samsung has show cased its bendable screen mobile phones, Lenovo has given a glimpse of a range of flexible products it's working on.
Lenovo has showed off some of its experimental technology, including a foldable smartphone and tablet at its Tech World conference in San Francisco, along with it Lenovo also launched its latest smartphones.
Devices Lenovo is working on have flexible display. Smartphone can turn into a wearable device by wrapping it around the wrist. The bendable tablet, meanwhile, can fold in half, making it easier to carry and use.
Officially known as the CPlus, Lenovo's CTO, Peter Hortensius, said the bendy handset would come in two sizes, large and small. It would also have a 4.26-inch flexible display, use the Android operating system and come in 12 different colours.
It is still in the development stage and no time frame has been given for its launch.
However, Samsung is has already planed to launch its product with bendable screen by 2017. Samsung unveiled a prototype of a phone that could bend as far back as 2013.
While the Suwon, South Korea-based company has previously released slick videos featuring foldable concept phones, it has never made such a device commercially. Moxi Group, a Chinese company based in Chongqing, has shown off a bendable phone with black and white screens.
Samsung Electronics Co is planning to soon release two new smartphone models that will feature bendable screens. People familiar with matter said one of the device will be able to fold in half like a cosmetic compact.
Both of the devices will use organic light-emitting diodes. It is expected to be unveiled in 2017.One of the model will have 5-inch screen when used as a handset, that unfurls into a display that's as large as 8 inches, similar to a tablet, the people said.
Samsung, the biggest supplier of OLED panels for mobile products, has pioneered the development of new screen formats with its multi-sided Edge smartphones. Using advanced display technology may help the company recapture customers from Apple and boost earnings that have slumped for the past two years.
"This product could be a game-changer if Samsung successfully comes up with a user interface suitable for bendable screens," said Lee Seung Woo, an analyst at IBK Securities Co in Seoul.
"Next year is a probable scenario. Their biggest obstacle was related to making transparent plastics and making them durable, which seems resolved by now."
Samsung has called this project as "Project Valley." Samsung may unveil one or both of the devices as soon as February, when Mobile World Congress takes place in Barcelona, as informed by company people.
"The company may also name the next version of its Note device as the "Note 7," skipping a number, to bring it in line with its flagship Galaxy S smartphone range", one of the people said.
Samsung declined to comment about Project Valley in an e-mailed statement.

