Samsung Flexi/Skin looks amazing!!!
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Pretending your James Bond!
Honestly one of the most genuinely exciting technological advancements of the past ten years. Not because it does anything particularly better than anything before it (apart from er, bend), but just because the possible implementations (I'm thinking of a wrist band PDA/phone type thing) are so freaking cool. Cannot wait for this. Can't wait for a 360 degree wrap around screen for FPS games either.
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The battery won't fold, it'll be in the lower section which doesn't bend along with the majority of the circuits and camera etc.
Can anyone post a reason why an iPhone is an essential product rather than a Nokia 3310?
Lighter, smash/crack resistant (if not impossible?), bigger screen whilst not taking up more pocket space, versatile (positionable desk clock, watch etc).
There are few inventions nowadays that are "essential" to every day life. But they're certainly an improvement (and awesome).
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Those are all pie on the sky renders. They have shown a flexible screen, which is admittedly very cool, but that's nowhere near being a flexible phone that will hold the positions they show it being bent into there. I can't even see from those pics that the currently flexible screen only will do anything like the folds that they show there.
Flexible screens will probably have a role in the future, I'm just not sure it's in something that is so much like what we currently call a mobile phone.
Flexible screens will probably have a role in the future, I'm just not sure it's in something that is so much like what we currently call a mobile phone.
Until one is invented that holds a specific shape when wanted then I don't really see a large commercial use for it.
When we have something that can be unfolded and "solidified" it will be brilliant. 3" solid screen that then folds out into a 6" screen and hardens in place for use as a tablet. If it's still floppy, like other things, it's useless...
When we have something that can be unfolded and "solidified" it will be brilliant. 3" solid screen that then folds out into a 6" screen and hardens in place for use as a tablet. If it's still floppy, like other things, it's useless...
Ah ok that'd make more sense
Tbh, I still don't see the point of it. Hopefully my opinion will change but highly unlikely
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I'm sure the unveiling of the cathode ray tube received similar comments
I doubt it. Can you give me an example of a single good reason to have a bent screen on a phone? I can't think of one.
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Maybe not specifically on a phone, but in visual communication in general.
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On a phone, meh. As a 180 degree surround screen for FPS games? Win
Absolutely, there are plenty of good uses but a phone isn't one of them.
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pull out phone?
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That's what I was on about.
The idea of having a "candy bar" style phone that then pulls out to form a 7" video screen would be cool
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pull out phone?
Patent it, fast...NOWWWW"!!!!!!111
Before Jobby gets his eyes on this thread!