Samsung to debut flexible smartphone screens in 2012

October 31, 2011 By Rick Marshall

Industry-leading smartphone manufacturer plans new "twist" on display screen technology next year.

Not content with leading the industry in smartphone sales, Samsung also plans to offer the most flexible phones, too.

During its quarterly earnings call this week, the company announced plans to feature flexible screens on its mobile devices hitting shelves in 2012.

“The flexible display we are looking to introduce sometime in 2012, hopefully the earlier part,” said Samsung’s vice president of investor relations, Robert Yi. “The application probably will start from the handset side.”

The company plans to move on to tablet computers and other devices after phones, too.

Samsung has made rapid strides in bringing bendable screens to consumers after purchasing Liquivista, a company specializing in flexible electronic displays, back in January 2011. While many companies have been experimenting with bright, low-power displays that can also be flexed and twisted, this could be the first mass-market rollout for the technology.

At the 2009 CES, Sony demonstrated a flexible display, but it has yet to announce plans for a mass-market product featuring the screens.

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Greg Johnson at 10:36pm 9th December 2011 I opt for a helium-filled smartphone that I can tie a string to and walk around with!
jldm at 11:45am 1st November 2011 Lack of imagination from Greg abd Tom. If the sreen is perfected you can have a phone with a screen two or three times as big when you have on your hands and have as big when it is in your pocket
Tom Pajak at 10:09pm 31st October 2011 I like the idea of flexible displays but let's face it for cellphones it ain't....maybe goggles or visors or for commercial advertising but for a cell???.....I just can't see it being a big hit
Greg Johnson at 9:57pm 31st October 2011 What does this do for an actual user?End butt-dialing?If the answer is "nothing much, really," then *yawn*....