LG has announced its plans to start mass-production of, what it calls, the world's first flexible OLDE panel for smartphones. Despite the claim, the company might not be the first to produce a flexible display smartphone as the news comes on top of a similar announcement from Samsung.
LG has announced that it plans start selling the device sometime next year in 2014. The news comes just weeks after Samsung made a similar announcement saying that it plans to unveil a special edition of its Galaxy Note 3 sometime in October.
According to BBC News, both companies currently have flexible display television sets on the market. However, these screens are still fixed within the body of the device, which cannot move. It is likely that this will be the same story with the smartphones as well. A flexible display won't necessarily allow users to adjust it regularly but will instead allow the phone to take a curved shape to better fit the contours of the human palm.
A press release from LG's display division indicates its handset screen will curve from the top to the bottom rather than from one side to another. This design was also described by Samsung in a recent patent.
"The new display is vertically concave from top to bottom with a radius of 700mm [28in], opening up a world of design innovations in the smartphone market," LG said "What's more, it is also the world's lightest, weighing a mere 7.2g [0.25oz] even with a 6in screen, the largest among current smartphone OLED displays."
Whil LG has made some of the specs of its device known, so far very little is known about the Samsung device other than that it will work a lot like the Galaxy Note 3 and will likely be unveiled by the South Korean Tech giant sometime in Oct.
