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Samsung Announces UL-Certified Unbreakable OLED Panel for Smartphones

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Samsung Display today announced an unbreakable OLED smartphone panel that's been certified by Underwriters Laboratory (UL), an official testing company for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.

The UL test indicates that Samsung's unbreakable display withstood 26 drops from 1.2 meters (4 feet) with no damage and held up to extreme temperature testing. Samsung says that the display was also subjected to a drop of six feet with no sign of damage.

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According to Samsung, its flexible OLED panel uses an unbreakable substrate that's adhered to an overlay window, a deviation from other, more breakable flexible OLED panels that use a glass-covered window.

Samsung says that the unbreakable panels are being developed for use on smartphones but are likely to find viable markets with other products like display consoles for automobiles, mobile military devices, portable game consoles, and tablet PCs.While UL-certification for the panel is being announced today, Samsung first showed off its technology at DisplayWeek in May, in the form of a 6.22-inch display that was targeted at automotive customers. Samsung has been developing flexible display technology for years.

As CNET's Shara Tibken points out, Samsung's announcement comes just two weeks ahead of when it plans to unveil the Galaxy Note 9, so it's possible Samsung's upcoming flagship smartphone could use this new display technology. With UL certification, the panel is ready to be used in consumer products.

Apple uses displays sourced from Samsung in its iPhone lineup, so it's not unreasonable to think that the Cupertino company could potentially adopt this technology in the future, should it meet Apple's demands for quality.

Apple sources its OLED displays for the iPhone X from Samsung and is expected to continue using Samsung as a supplier for the foreseeable future, though the company is working on securing additional display suppliers for diversification purposes.

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Apple's "demands for quality" . Right. Like the quality it demands for its Macbook Pro keyboards or its power delivery chips or its T2 chips.
 
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Will the folk from previous threads who stated they wanted Apple to move away from Samsung screens maybe open their eyes a bit now? LG and all the other manufacturers of OLED screens are so far behind getting to Samsung's standard quality level, that Samsung can develop things like this without worrying about others. Fact is, until any other technology like Micro LED become the norm, Samsung is the leaders when it comes to smartphone display tech and people need to take off their tribal, "Apple is the best" tinted glasses.
 
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Plastic is resilient and not very scratch resistant.

Back to the drawing board Samsung! My Sony w800i had a plastic screen. It sucked!
 
Relentless Power said:
Interesting point. An unbreakable smart phone display really doesn’t appeal to me, because the majority of smart phone users use cases anyways or if you have someone like myself, I have *never* broken my smart phone display by dropping it. If a display was offered that can’t scratch, that would be more appealing to me, as I don’t use screen protectors, although I do think smart phone displays are fairly durable for what they are.
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Most people replace their screens that are broken, not scratched. So this is an improvement for the majority of users.
 
shareef777 said:
Most people replace their screens that are broken, not scratched. So this is an improvement for the majority of users.
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Of course they do. But not really my point, As mentioned, I would rather value a ‘scratch proof’ display versus unbreakable. As I have never personally broken iPhone display of my own, in which case it’s almost inevitable all iPhones will hairline scratch one way or the other without the use of a screen protector.
 
shareef777 said:
Most people replace their screens that are broken, not scratched. So this is an improvement for the majority of users.
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The scratch risk will depend on the surface hardness, which from cursory read of the article I could not determine.
 
I would worry about clarity usually this stuff that won’t break is not as clear as true glass. Ever heard of plexiglass?
 
Relentless Power said:
Of course they do. But not really my point, As mentioned, I would rather value a ‘scratch proof’ display versus unbreakable. As I have never personally broken iPhone display of my own, in which case it’s almost inevitable all iPhones will hairline scratch one way or the other without the use of a screen protector.
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Indeed. It's a matter of probability. A phone in everyday use, is in danger of a scratch any time, either you have it in your pocket, in a bag, on a desk etc. Break would require a mistake like throwing it down.

Scratch proof would have much more sense and value to most.
 
H3LL5P4WN said:
Since when is 71 degrees "hot?"
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Since Korea uses Metric, (as does most of the rest of the world, I am assuming that they are referring to Celcius.

71c is hot.

"room" temperature is 20-24c. Mid summer here is 27-35c.

so 71c is HOT (boiling is 100c)
 
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Shanghaichica said:
No anytime Samsung come up with an idea first people will ridicule it until Apple decide to do the same thing. Then we will get told that Apple don’t do it first, they do it right. Or even better we will be told that actually Apple have been working on the same thing for years and that Samsung are just doing a rush release to get it out before Apple.
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Right Samsung never copied Apple.

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And it’s not like there wasn’t an internal Samsung document highlighting all the ways Samsung could copy the iPhone... oh wait

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/102374068/App-Sam-Court-Doc
 
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LordVic said:
Since Korea uses Metric, (as does most of the rest of the world, I am assuming that they are referring to Celcius.

71c is hot.

"room" temperature is 20-24c. Mid summer here is 27-35c.

so 71c is HOT (boiling is 100c)
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Since the article was posted on a US based site with no indication of the temperature measurements being in celsius...

Besides, the metric system is the equivalent of a participation trophy.

"I'M GOING 100KPH!" "No, grandma, you're going 45mph, get the lead out."
"I GOT A 2 LITER! VTEC WOOOOO!" "I've taken dumps bigger than your 122 cuin half-of-an-engine."
 
H3LL5P4WN said:
Since the article was posted on a US based site with no indication of the temperature measurements being in celsius...

Besides, the metric system is the equivalent of a participation trophy.

"I'M GOING 100KPH!" "No, grandma, you're going 45mph, get the lead out."
"I GOT A 2 LITER! VTEC WOOOOO!" "I've taken dumps bigger than your 122 cuin half-of-an-engine."
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So grandma uses metric? Grandpa says he used to get 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way he likes it.
 
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NoNothing said:
Now that is pretty cool. Hopefully, it is simply not scratchable plastic and hard enough to hold up to sand n your pocket.
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And other things too, not just sand.

Drop test is definitely an important part of testing and it's great it can handle multiple drops. What about bend test? I have seen quite a lot of people put their phones in the back pocket and I think this is just as important to see how well it does.
 
MoreRumors? said:
And other things too, not just sand.

Drop test is definitely an important part of testing and it's great it can handle multiple drops. What about bend test? I have seen quite a lot of people put their phones in the back pocket and I think this is just as important to see how well it does.
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if nokia 3210 yeah.. a drop test and plastic screen. but the main issue is focus edge like stone upon drop not static /linear floor.
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FFR said:
Right Samsung never copied Apple.

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And it’s not like there wasn’t an internal Samsung document highlighting all the ways Samsung could copy the iPhone... oh wait

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/102374068/App-Sam-Court-Doc
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useless i use hp like square phone..some more call I-PAQ https://www.gsmarena.com/hp_ipaq_rw6815-1803.php
 
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