Let’s get Flexible.
The era of the next mobile revolution is here. The advent of flexible displays. Were you wondering previously when can you wear an elongated display as a watch or when can you finally be a little careless about your phone? Or you looked at an Internet concept and thought, oh how I wish I could have that? Well now is when you can. LG announced that it’s putting flexible displays into mass production and Samsung went a step ahead and announced the first flexible display phone. Only the display is flexible, not the phone body, but it’s a start.
Samsung announced the Galaxy Round. The same firepower as the Galaxy Note III but with a curved display. Yes not curved glass, but a curved display. So the beginning of the next generation of mobiles and the next revolution after the iPhone is now. And in my opinion it’s started off pretty well with monster specs to make any phone run buttery smooth with the world’s largest phone manufacturer trying out designs before pushing it’s next flagship. Well played Samsung, well played.
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Meet the Samsung Round, the first new-born of the new generation of mobile computing.[/caption]
LG on the other hand is going full force to be the first manufacturer to unveil the phone that bends. Yes with the display, the entire body. It recently announced that OLED flexible displays are entering mass production and they are the thinnest displays ever built. Well display wasn’t enough? LG also announced curved batteries called LG Chem. They depart from the standard, now ancient rectangular design of phone batteries. They are shaped as cables and will continue to provide power even when you ties them in a knot. They also don’t heat up much and are water-resistant, which makes them perfect for wearable devices like smart watches. So with flexible batteries and displays in place, I have a feeling LG can have a pretty huge head-start to this crazy new money printing era where all our 2013 phones will seem old-fashioned.
What does it mean for the future of mobiles and for these two companies?
Samsung is already on the podium, and being the first to enter the new mobile bandwagon, things couldn’t get better. It’ll continue to dominate and scatter it’s competitors unless LG who has superior flexible technology dominates the pipeline and pushes out great, innovative and well-designed flexible products quicker and better executed than Samsung. If that happens LG has the best chance to get incharge of the mobile world and get the podium finish for the next generation of smartphones.
Well for others such as Sony, Microsoft and HTC and most importantly Apple they need to pull up their socks as well, as now the mobile phone consumption is going to soar and everybody is going to want a flexible mobile which they can bend and drop as they please. Some of these do have flexible concepts but they need to start hyping them and gain public interest as soon as possible if they want to maximize profits.
Plus smartwatches and various other new product lines (flexible displays everywhere! I mean all of us want a slick watch with a display going all around our wrist!) are going to go mainstream and hence access to flexible technology would mean profits which would mean the market leader for some years to come. This article would have a continuation once products actually start coming, that is when we would see whether my predictions come true. Thanks for reading and do keep collecting those concepts, who knows which one of them might be cooking in these company’s R&D department. If you liked this article do not forget to like and spread the word. Thanks for visiting Just Ujjwal Blogs and do answer the poll question below.
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