“Future versions of Apple’s iPhone, the definitive mobile device credited for taking the Internet beyond the personal computer, might bend and twist,” Kim Yoo-chul reports for The Korea Times.
“At least that seemed to be what Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun was hinting at when he revealed that the company is getting ‘huge’ orders from electronics makers for it futuristic lineup of flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays,” Kim reports. “Samsung is eager to push open an era of bendy phones and boasts a capability to mass produce OLED displays that bend from the middle or from around the edge.”
Kim reports, “The notoriously secretive Apple remains tight lipped about how its future iPhones will look and it’s hard to imagine that its next smartphone, which may or may not be named the iPhone 5, having a rubbery screen. But for iPhones after that, who knows? While Kwon didn’t give out any names, industry sources here believe that Apple is likely to beone of the handset makers asking Samsung to provide them flexible screens… ‘Apple is the iconic company in the industry that will continue to set the trends. If Samsung finds increasing industry demand for a futuristic product like flexible displays, it’s hard to imagine Apple doesn’t have something to do with it,’ said an analyst from a U.S.-based investment bank.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
I prefer my phone a solid piece thank you
1 (but not of the Google variety)
Tapping a bendy screen sounds like a recipe for disaster, or a horrible UI at least.
I say let Samsung gobble up that niche market with their Samsung Galaxy Gumby.
Samsung Galaxy Gumby
+∞!
Hahahaha Galaxy Gumby! 😀
thanks…reading everyone’s comments here on MDN for years has apparently made me funnier. At last!
I would prefer a phone made of chocolate.
LG would sue.
That is hardly Apple who orders those screens. Flexible displays are scratch-prone.
(Flexible displays will work fine in bigger devices which are not touch-enabled.)
Then what’s the point in having a flexible screen if you’re not supposed to touch it?
The Cube will now be curved Apples!
Apple’s next big component rev to iPhone will NOT be coming from SAMSUNG.
Um, no.
Samsung should go ahead a produce such a phone.
If they are first, they cannot be accused of copying
Look for Apple not to depend on others for component. I’m thinking a proprietary nanomorphic mimetic alloy iPhone.
Where did apple find all the other flexible components for the iPhone? If the screen doesn’t require glass, then maybe no shattered screens.