Samsung has been law for years in the display sector. Through the division of the same name, the company has long been supplying rivals with LCD screens first and then OLEDs of high quality, and continues to push on the pedal of innovation. At Display Week 2022 running in San Jose through May 13, Samsung showcased some of the new things it has in store for the future. The event is in its first edition after three years of shutters kept down by the pandemic.
FOLDABLE, ROLLABLE AND PORTABLE CONSOLE DISPLAYS
The company has shown two new solutions to make foldable more … “foldable”: the OLED Flex G is a screen that can be folded twice inwards, while the OLED Flex S can always fold twice. but both inwards and outwards. It is a concept anticipated by the December 2021 patent that led to the concept nicknamed Galaxy Tri-Fold: it materialized at Display Week 2022.
There is also room for a sliding 6.7-inch OLED display. The peculiarity of the prototype shown by Samsung is that unlike the already existing projects (such as that of Boe last summer), this new panel extends vertically instead of horizontally. In short, it is more suitable than the latter for uses that today are most popular in the mobile field: vertical scrolling apps, especially those of social networks, web pages or documents, just to give a few examples.
At the event, however, Samsung also brought its Sidable Widescreen, that is, it can be rolled up horizontally: at full extension, it has a 12.4-inch diagonal, while in the most compact configuration it is reduced to 8.1 inches. Foldable displays, you may have guessed by now, dominate the current and future scene. Samsung also showed a “classic” foldable OLED, that is with the fold in the center, but applied to a portable game console. With the Flex Gaming panel from Samsung you can get a device similar to a Nintendo Switch, so with two controllers at the ends, with a display that can be folded to make the product compact “like a smartphone” when not in use.
THE ‘TRADITIONAL’ CURVES FOR LAPTOPS AND CARS
And if the leaflets have made a big voice, at least at Samsung, the company has not reduced the efforts for those applications that require standard displays. Notebooks for example the world’s first QHD OLED with a refresh rate of 240 Hz was shown. Isn’t it new to you? That’s right because in recent days it was Razer who formalized the Blade 15 with an OLED with such a high refresh rate. There are not many manufacturers in the world capable of such a technological effort, so it comes to juxtapose the two novelties and hypothesize that the high-performance screen of the Blade comes from the Samsung Display factories.
Finally, Samsung also brought to the event panels designed to equip cars, which increasingly rely on displays to support onboard technology on the dashboard. Samsung’s new OLEDs, included in the Digital Cockpit range, are of three sizes: 7, 12.3 and 15.7 inches, so as to satisfy every variation of the current trend and to cover the needs of manufacturers, who can choose the most suitable. to the instrument cluster and infotainment system. They are protected by glass and can be curved depending on the application.