Samsung
Electronics said it will introduce a smartphone with a curved display in
October, as the world’s top handset maker seeks to set the pace of hardware
innovation and maintain its supremacy in a fiercely competitive business. Curved
displays are an early stage in screen evolution which is shifting to bendable
or foldable designs, eventually allowing mobile and wearable gadgets to take on
new forms that could radically change the high-end smartphone market.
“We plan to introduce a smartphone with a curved display in
South Korea in October,” Samsung’s mobile business head of strategic marketing
DJ Lee said on Wednesday at an event launching the Galaxy Note 3 smartphone in
Seoul.
In January Samsung, which has taken over from Apple as the global smartphone leader, showed off prototype products with a flexible screen and a display that extends from the side of a device.
In January Samsung, which has taken over from Apple as the global smartphone leader, showed off prototype products with a flexible screen and a display that extends from the side of a device.
But technology firms have yet to figure out how to mass produce
the parts cheaply and come up with display panels that can be as thin as a
sheet and highly heat resistant.
Curved
display is already commercially available in large-screen televisions. Samsung
and its home rival LG Electronics had started selling curved OLED TV sets this
year priced at about $9,000. (Reuters)
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