LG Electronics confirmed its plans of mass producing flexible 6-inch OLED displays for its smartphones which it claims be as “the world’s first flexible OLED panel for smartphones.”
The company announced that its panel will measure 6-inches diagonally and will have a 700mm radius of curvature making it the slimmest of all existing smartphone device panels. This suggests that LG’s new display will feature a curve more than twice as compared to Samsung’s new Galaxy Round.
The panels will be built using plastic substrates and not glass making the panel quite bendable and unbreakable. Chief technology officer of LG Display, Dr. Sang Deog Yeo, said that the devices incorporating the flexible OLED panels’ could arrive sometime next year. According to Yeo, flexible displays will not only dominate smartphone market, but will also expand into other areas such as automotive displays, wearable gadgets and tablets.
There are even rumors of LG using its first flexible screen in its new 6-inch smartphone G Flex to be announced in November. However, Samsung is seemingly ahead in the race to bring out its own version of curved display smartphone.
Curved flexible OLED display is the latest innovation in the smartphone market which is presently dominated by big tech companies including Apple, Samsung and Google.
In a forecast made by Research firm HIS, in June this year, it has been mentioned that the curved flexible display market would grow quickly and completely by the year 2020. The global shipment of flexible display devices will reach around 800 million by the coming seven years, reported the research firm.
