Bendable displays have been rumored to be coming since quite some time now and finally Samsung has showed off a phone with bendable screen at CES 2013.
The bendable display technology is called Youm and uses thin plastic instead of glass and OLED display which makes it bendable.
Stephen Woo, president of Samsung along with Senior VP Brian Berkeley demoed the concept using a prototype. He claimed that the display wont break even if dropped. He even bent it from side to side.
CNET posted images of prototype showed off by Microsoft's Chief Technical Strategy officer Eric Rudder which features flexible display with Windows Live Tiles interface that might be used in future Windows Phone devices
Guys at The Verge were able to get their hands on a prototype. The prototype features a bent screen that that falls off towards the rear edge of the device on the right side. It displays landscape notifications along the bent edge so that you can read them even when the phone is in a cover. The screen was 5 inch with 720p resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio.
Apart from the bent screen, the protoype was not a complete smartphone and lacked radio, OS , camera and other stuff.
The concept seems pretty cool but it could take some time to actually be included in production smartphones. We can expect it in future, probably in Galaxy S V ?
The bendable display technology is called Youm and uses thin plastic instead of glass and OLED display which makes it bendable.
Stephen Woo, president of Samsung along with Senior VP Brian Berkeley demoed the concept using a prototype. He claimed that the display wont break even if dropped. He even bent it from side to side.
CNET posted images of prototype showed off by Microsoft's Chief Technical Strategy officer Eric Rudder which features flexible display with Windows Live Tiles interface that might be used in future Windows Phone devices
Guys at The Verge were able to get their hands on a prototype. The prototype features a bent screen that that falls off towards the rear edge of the device on the right side. It displays landscape notifications along the bent edge so that you can read them even when the phone is in a cover. The screen was 5 inch with 720p resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio.
Apart from the bent screen, the protoype was not a complete smartphone and lacked radio, OS , camera and other stuff.
The concept seems pretty cool but it could take some time to actually be included in production smartphones. We can expect it in future, probably in Galaxy S V ?