Apple Exploring Possibility of Foldable iPhone With Flexible Display

[nooaah]

Oh no. Samsung will come out with this first now that it is reported here.

They actually came out with this like a month ago.

 

[Zirel]

Samsung has already developed functional flexible displays, buddy.

Nothing new, buddy.

Now making flexible exploding batteries is where they got stuck.
[doublepost=1479826860][/doublepost]

If iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S has all the issue recently on a solid body frame. There's no way Apple could make a foldable without a problem. Just sayin!

"Smartphone guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in."

 

[imronburgundy]

Nope. Just nope.

 

[Kumaran]

"Photocopier initializing" Apple has never been shy about copying Samsung.

 

[blacktape242]

isn't that called a flip phone?

 

[one more]

How could you see notifications at a glance?

Exactly. This will add some usefulness to an Watch, so a double win for Apple.

 

[DUIduckSAUCE]

Isn't Samsung releasing this next year?

 

[Karma*Police]

Still no headphone jack....

We're looking at a future with foldable screens and you're interest is a headphone jack??

The future is wireless. Ever see the movie, Her? Between this patent and AirPods, that's the first thing that came to mind.

 

[Scottsoapbox]

How does this make it any thinner?

 

[v0lume4]

Does anyone remember this article from June of this year?

Samsung Rumored to Launch Fully Bendable Smartphones in 2017
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/07/samsung-fully-bendable-smartphones/

 

[truthertech]

But wait. I thought they were only spending their ten billion dollars a year on R and D on Jony Ive's book and emojis???? Please don't post articles like these. It leaves us trollers scratching our heads and looking foolish.

 

[vmistery]

Calling it, iPhone 9s explodes due to unexpected battery problems that occur from folding the phone

Nah that's the Note 9

 

[kdarling]

Oh no. Samsung will come out with this first now that it is reported here.

Apple would likely get the display parts from Samsung (and LG). Samsung is way ahead in this field, which is no doubt one reason why Apple is making the move to OLED. The last thing Apple would want is to be left behind on LCD while Samsung is making foldable OLED phones.

Samsung began demonstrating flexible displays about five years ago.

In 2013, they showed off a prototype side display that later became the Galaxy Edge series. They also showed this concept video, which mocked tech groupies, and had a lot of us salivating for the folding tablet phone idea shown in it:

Now once again, there are rumors that 2017 will be the year that one of their folding designs finally go on sale:

Most likely, it'll be a simpler wallet shaped device at first. It'll also likely be very limited in availability, as IIRC mass production will probably be as low as 40K units a month.

 

[kwikdeth]

I'm having flashbacks to the RAZRs faulty hinge/cable design already...

 

[44267547]

Won't be implemented for another 4-5 years.

Easily. Perhaps even longer. That is, If they can even get through all the testing, research and development. I believe Samsung was rumored to be working on something similar rumored approximately a year ago.

 

[dampfnudel]

Won't be implemented for another 4-5 years.

But may be implemented by someone else before then...to give Apple some more incentive.

 

[Defender2010]

Just like on Westworld.

 

[jtrauscht]

The problem isn't in having a flexible screen – the problem is the hard crease necessary to have a foldable phone. Physics will win out, and the screen will eventually break. I don't see how they can get around that unless they eliminate the crease.