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Samsung Offers to Supply Foldable Displays to Apple and Google

Until these have sensible aspect ratios I'm not interested. A phone that folds out in three sections might work, but at the moment you have a skinny phone turning into a square tablet - it doesn't work.
 
I'm not sure what's the big deal here. Apple is using Samsung foldable OLED already. Heck, that's how Apple managed to do edge-to-edge display on iPhone X onwards, by folding the OLED panel inwards, avoiding the chin bezel for the controller.

And Samsung display is not the same division as Samsung mobile. In fact, Samsung mobile was not doing too well in the last few years due to the slowdowns in smartphone sales, but Samsung is still reporting healthy financials thanks to their component business.
 
mike2q said:
I remember Steve Ballmer laughing at the original iPhone as being over priced. He said nobody will buy it because it doesn't have mass appeal and costs too much.
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I notice Ballmer isn't running Microsoft anymore. Wonder why that would be. (Nadella has moved the company in a totally different direction, and very successfully I think).
 
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LordVic said:
again you speak, but grossly innacurately.

No, Innovation does NOT require meaningful change to your life for it to be innovative. NOR does innovation require any measure of sales or adoption for it to exist.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/innovation

All Innovation is, is a NEW method to accomplish a task in a unique or different way than methods that came before.

your attempt to call someone out for misusing a word while actually misusing the word your self was cute.

can I give you some advice. next time you post. research your post before you press reply.
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This dictionary fails to grasp the meaning of innovation.

Innovation comes from economic theory and the result has always been important to innovation. The end result of innovation has to have some meaningful positive impact on a process, the economics of a company, the effect on society or similar to count as an innovation.
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bladerunner2000 said:
Oh boy... somebody doesn't game and/or doesn't realize how big the gaming industry is.
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illi

So, can you provide how much revenue companies generated from VR-gaming in 2018?
I would be surprised if the world wide revenue was more than a few billion dollars.
 
I think iPhone (TD) Twin Display. Personally I do not like the foldable idea. Seems somewhat bulky and fragile. But you cannot say Apple copies or does not invocation patents say different. I would also suggest Samsung offering display tech is to take on Huawei. I personally would like to see a see through phone with no bezels just a base that contains the hardware with projection tech.
 
Yes, except the link your provided has forecasts from 2015 and upwards, so these are not real numbers but projected revenue from 2016 and later. Article is from 2015.
 
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gnasher729 said:
Common sense is that you will have people upgrading from iPhone 6 to iPhone XS. People who bought the most expensive iPhone at the time.
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That’s _not_ common sense from someone owning an iPhone 6, then upgrading to the XS, not when they can purchase the XR, which would be a middle ground phone. I doubt an iPhone 6 owner would opt straight to the most expensive iPhone, not when the XR exists for a cheaper price point that offers similar functionality and capabilities.
 
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Relentless Power said:
That’s _not_ common sense from someone owning an iPhone 6, then upgrading to the XS, not when they can purchase the XR, which would be a middle ground phone. I doubt an iPhone 6 owner would opt straight to the most expensive iPhone, not when the XR exists for a cheaper price point that offers sinislr functionality and capabilities.
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You can also find iPhone X as well which is cheaper now.
 
Relentless Power said:
That’s _not_ common sense from someone owning an iPhone 6, then upgrading to the XS, not when they can purchase the XR, which would be a middle ground phone. I doubt an iPhone 6 owner would opt straight to the most expensive iPhone, not when the XR exists for a cheaper price point that offers similar functionality and capabilities.
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Well, I can only speak for me course, but I went from a 6 to the XS Plus. This despite me saying that I’d never get another iPhone until they put the headphone jack back (but then, I just use an adapter!)
 
My guess is that foldable displays are not the real future in the long run. Rollable displays are, like the rollable OLED TV LG has shown at CES.
It is a much more practical solution, you don’t need hinges. (Very) simply put, imagine a regular iPhone XS Max with the stainless steel frame on the right being retractable, so if you pull the right side of the frame, it expands and a piece of extra screen rolls out and fills the bigger frame on the right at the same time.
Much cleaner solution, which could even have 3 modes: standard regular iphone 21:9 mode , 16:9 mode (iphone 5 to 8) and 4:3 (iPad ) mode.
This is much more a solution apple could choose instead of having a curved screen on the outside that could be damaged or a big grease in the screen because you fold it inwards. LG have shown such thing this is possible with a big OLED TV, and it looks very clean and like a finished product without the bubbly plastic effect , folds, etc.
 
Regardless of what you think about the technology it is just too expensive for what it offers. I don't see them ever being able to implement this in a way normal people can afford. Not when you can have a phone in your pocket and a tablet in your purse/bag for a lot less.

Personally this seems like one of those in-between things that ends up not working particularly well in either role.
 
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Of course Apple is working on something, that doesn't mean it will ever see the light of day.

Apple has always had dozens of prototype stage projects in the works, most of them are getting shelved after a while.
 
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I can't see how this would ever take off they might sell a few to a curious few.
 
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