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Apple Working With LG Display on Future Foldable iPhone
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Rule? I simply asked if the individual has experience with it or not to subject an opinion based on technology doesn't exist from Apple yet. So again, I pose the question, how would one know that, its capabilities or its functionality? It makes to be a very difficult argument stating something that you have no idea what you're referring to if you have no concept of what this technology can contribute.
Can you imagine what the world would be like if we all thought like this? We would still be discovering how to light fires inside our caves. I personally have no interest in fire, no interest in building shelter, no interest in building tools, no interest in the printing press, no interest in a combustible engine, no interest in antibiotics, no interest in a flying vehicle, no interest in a circuit board, no interest in a touchscreen phone,...
If by unfolding it it becomes larger than an iPhone 6 Plus (approximately) then I wouldn't want it as a phone. I could see a tablet that unfolds to 12-15 inches diagonal as being useful, or a phone that folds out to the size of the current size of large display phones. Somewhat depends on how thick the device is when folded as to whether I'd find it convenient.
Unless they make foldable batteries, I don't believe this will be much of use except curving screen edges.
The thing to keep in mind with folding / bendable displays is that it likely means the end of glass being used on the display. For those that don't remember, there was a time when almost every device, even those with touch sensitive screens, had plastic for the screen cover.
I remember having one of the first Compaq iPaq devices and although it was a precursor to both the smartphone and tablet of today in what it could do, it had a plastic screen that ended up getting scratched from using the touch pen for input. I got about 18 months of work use out of it before it was just too scratched to be used.
Maybe the solution with a folding screen is to have glass on the two sides of the panel, leaving the fold / spine with just plastic to allow for the fold to happen. It will be interesting to see if they can create a plastic that doesn't weaken or create a milky white line at the fold point over time, which is normally what happens with plastic.
I remember having one of the first Compaq iPaq devices and although it was a precursor to both the smartphone and tablet of today in what it could do, it had a plastic screen that ended up getting scratched from using the touch pen for input. I got about 18 months of work use out of it before it was just too scratched to be used.
Maybe the solution with a folding screen is to have glass on the two sides of the panel, leaving the fold / spine with just plastic to allow for the fold to happen. It will be interesting to see if they can create a plastic that doesn't weaken or create a milky white line at the fold point over time, which is normally what happens with plastic.
I can see this being good for delivering large TVs in a small poster tube, but not sure I see the usefulness in a bendy smart phone. You can't fold it like a paper airplane, so rolling in a tube seems like the only option. Anyone got some thoughts on this?
All of you are so close minded I can't believe it. What else a foldable screen could be used for in a portable device, If not to enhance the portability?
I hate to carry my device in my pocket, it just makes my legs look too bulky. This is obviously to make the devices 3, 4 or more times smaller than its size to improve the portability of it by leveraging miniaturization.
10 or 20 years From now we'll be laughing about how we managed to put all these enormous bricks in our pocket pants.
I hate to carry my device in my pocket, it just makes my legs look too bulky. This is obviously to make the devices 3, 4 or more times smaller than its size to improve the portability of it by leveraging miniaturization.
10 or 20 years From now we'll be laughing about how we managed to put all these enormous bricks in our pocket pants.
I have to agree with this, at least for anything truly game-changing, like a Westworld-style foldable "tablet".
What I don't get is this 'PC' thing people are talking about. Why would anyone want a computer in their home? What would a regular person do with such a thing?
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The tech community is insanely, and very counter-intuitively regressive.
Just because of size. With a device I will use in the office, on the road, in the car, at the gym, etc. I would rather it be more compact. The Plus size was even pushing what I felt to be really comfortable. And yea I get that, I am sure there are some applications where it will make sense, I am just not seeing it yet.
finally watched this show. Saw those devices.
I want one. that's what I want phones to become. when folded, nice phone, expanded, tablet/computer.
all in one device that actually CAN do all.
MAKE IT HAPPEN. now THATS a phone that would be worthy of $1000+ pricetag
Thing is, not ALL components need to be foldable and screens must not necessarily fold like a roll.
Perhaps the screen and other components may accommodate, like overlapping each other, to be 40 percent of its full size.
For example, think of a layered device. When "folded" the components could accommodate like: the battery in the bottom, then on top other components and on top of all them, the screen folded in 4 equal sizes.
excellent, all companies will just stop innovation because you don't see it possible with today's tech.
what if I told you, Tomorrows tech is but a dream today? Science Fiction has been one of the leading motivators behind modern technological innovation. By nspiring the minds of those who could invent and innovate through fiction and fantasy, minds are moulded and steered to think outside the box and come up with creative new ideas.
Look at Star Trek: TOS. flip phones were inspired there. Look at TNG, and you will see the inspiration for modern tablets. Mankind has reached the moon because a lowly author once wrote a book about landing a boat on it.
telling people to stop dreaming today because technology doesn't exist today is silliness and shortsited.
Keep dreaming Apple. you come out with that foldable phone? then we'll judge how well the implementation works.
Foldable is an interesting concept but hard to make into a real world implementation.
Far more interesting and applicable would be stretchable devices. Pull on the corner of your iWatch sized device to expand it to a iPhone to expand it to an iPad as needed. Much more useful and it may actually be easier to implement.
Far more interesting and applicable would be stretchable devices. Pull on the corner of your iWatch sized device to expand it to a iPhone to expand it to an iPad as needed. Much more useful and it may actually be easier to implement.
That's Samsung's design.
They've been using it in their Galaxy lines since the Edge.
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Hyperbole much?
Apple is developing an iPhone with a foldable display alongside LG Display, reports Korean site The Investor. Apple is said to have chosen to work with LG and not Samsung out of fears that Samsung could get ahold of sensitive tech.
Samsung has been working on and showing off foldable and bendable display tech for a couple of years now.
They showed off working prototypes at CES in 2013.
Everyone is stuck on folding when the key word is flexible.
What if the display unrolled like a parchment? Imagine something like this, but shrunk down.
If you want a better looking example, watch Earth Final Conflict.
Expand some part of the display not used when you’re using your phone, to turn your phone into an iPad-size touch screen, no?