Samsung Display has showcased its first crease-less foldable OLED panel. It could be used in the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and the foldable iPhone. - SamMobile
Clickbait title.
The video at the bottom of the same article shows how visible the crease still is.
But is actually crease-less or is more like bezel-less phones are?
A while back they made goofy claims about their display being “bendable glass” and how they’re “bending the laws of physics.” It was (at least on the surface, which matters to users) still soft plastic… I have little faith.
There is no other material choice other than an elastic polymer aka a soft plastic. They also will always have plastic deformation without intervention. They could for instance invent a polymer that self heals with added heat, which the battery could supply.
I mean, bendable glass is a thing, but that’s in optical fibers which are not suitable for a flexible phone display.
I could imagine some construction that uses a lot of small glass pieces that don’t flex, but move past each other, perhaps. But that would probably have optical challenges and be expensive to make.
My opinion is “Why would I want my phone to bend? Also wow that’s so expensive.”
I’m unsure if sheet glass can bend that far, at that thickness, or if it can heal itself after bend stress kicks in.
I believe such self healing fabric already exists since a long time. Used in clothing I believe.
The link says Apple might use it in their products so maybe it is ready this time? FWIW Apple waits until a technology is matured to keep up their ‘it simply works’ reputation.
No apple product I have tried ‘simply worked’ it worked as apple designers wanted it to work and no other way, with million little bugs as well.
The “simply worked” belongs to the Steve-Ive era. Those times are long gone.
They used to. And Macs kinda still do, though Liquid Ass is ugly AF there.
The Apple keyboard though… by far the worst part of it. I have a 2024 iPhone 16 Pro Max as my daily driver. It’s an awesome phone. But if I gotta type on a phone in any kind of long form… I’m gonna power up my 2019 Galaxy S10 and wait for it to boot because the typing is so much better (I use Gboard there). Why Apple can’t figure it out, and how these people are getting paid when auto correct changes random words to their names after I’ve typed them the way I want, I just don’t get it. Like names of people I don’t even have in my contacts, random ass names I’ve never used that words like “and” and “two” get changed to.
It’s because you’re not writing the way Apple wants you to.
might use it. Speculation. There is no official source yet that says apple will do any foldable phone. They are also just speculated rumors. May be true because of the iPhone Air experiment, but may also be just a rumor.
It’s always gonna have some kind of crease. Maybe not at first, but as dust gets in there, you’re gonna notice it. None of these phones are meant for long term use. You’re fully meant to replace it after a year or two.
Watch a teardown sometime. Foldable screens are paper thin. Candybar phone screens might be as well, but they’re held in place better. They’ll last longer because they aren’t being worn as fast.
That said, Samsung makes the best screens in mobile (which is why Apple uses them), so it’s just gonna look better and better. It’s not that you stop seeing the faults. You just stop caring.
Isn’t this the third time already Samsung has presented a “finally crease-less” foldable?
“Showcased” on a white screen 🤔
Cool have they solved the scratchable screen problem to any meaningful degree yet?
Yeah the crease really isnt the problem. Not that i would ever buy a foldable.
If they solved the scratchable problem and sold double fold ones and supported GrapheneOS I would absolutely buy one
What a glorious future that will be. I got so close to getting a foldable this generation but I ended up getting a fairphone. It’s fine, but it’s far from my dream of unfolding a 76 inch OLED TV from my pocket 😔
Yeah its gonna be awesome (assuming its possible). Ideally they get slightly more durable and have decent batteries as I’m more than happy to take the thickness tradeoff for that.
