Samsung has been working for several years on flexible displays. But so far the company only showed prototypes at various trade shows. That should change next year. As the IDG News Service reported, Samsung will offer flexible displays series finished in 2012 and interested customers to buy.
Production is scheduled to launch later in the first half of the year. At the beginning of the displays are primarily intended for use in mobile phones, IDG quoted a Samsung spokesman. Larger versions for tablets and other mobile devices will follow though.
The statement coincides with the rumor that Samsung is the end of next year, the Galaxy flexible mobile skin is put on the market. The model will have a 4-inch, super-flexible AMOLED touchscreen with a resolution of 800x480 pixels. This is embedded in a special polyimide substrate that can change its shape by current pulses suitable for the application is open, the report said.
In addition, there should be an 8-megapixel camera on the back and a front camera with VGA resolution. It will be powered by a 1.2 gigahertz processor, 1 gigabyte of available memory. Provides a 1,500 mAh battery is strong with energy. There is also WiFi b / g / n, Bluetooth 3.0 High Speed ??and 16 or 32 gigabytes of internal memory, the report said. The whole technique is to put in an enclosure just 8 millimeters is flat.