Samsung Galaxy Note II Will Reportedly Feature A Flexible Display With Enhanced Durability And Slim

EOUL, KOREA – A hundred years of Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT) cannot measure up to the recent ten years of the Display market’s rapid improvement. Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) have dominated the global display market with over 80% share, replacing CRT with the benefits of less power consumption, smaller size, high definition and less electromagnetic wave.

However, LCDs still have shortcomings as they do not produce light themselves and need color filter to produce vivid tone. AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) changed the face of display technology as it emerged without necessitating backlights and color filters as they emit light and the three primary colors themselves, consequently making displays thinner and lighter. With Active-Matrix (AM) as contrast to passive-matrix, each pixel is controlled by one to four transistors that can make the screen perform faster, brighter, more colorful, and capable of being viewed at different angles.

On top of this, AMOLED display can considerably compensate for LCD’s shortcomings. While LCD has structural defects of narrow viewing angle and slow response speed, AMOLED can project clear images from every angle with no burn-ins and with fast response speed. It unveils almost natural hues while providing higher contrast range. Capable of consistent response speed at low temperature (-10℃) and high temperatures (40℃), AMOLED can be applied to car dashboards and displays.

Although Korea was not the first to initiate the AMOLED display development, it was the first country to succeed in mass production; several countries have failed in the past due to low profitability. Korean companies, Samsung and LG, dominating the global LCD market with around 50% share are now inclined to investing more on AM OLED, despite leading nations such as Taiwan, Japan and China accelerated investment on the display industry. Currently, Samsung holds 97% market share with its entire line-up of Galaxy using AMOLED.

Recently, Samsung Display succeeded in raising considerably AMOLED resolution using Fine Metal Mask (FMM) technology, a pixel patterning process. It expects to address AMOLED’s weakest areas unlike iPhone’s Retina Display. Stripe-RGB AMOLED resolution can now be raised to 350ppi, higher than iPhone 4S’s Retina Display (326ppi). LG Display has also emerged with a 55-inch white OLED TV panels at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and at the Display Week hosted by Society for Information Display (SID). The product received similar reviews with Samsung’s RGB displays. The LG OLED TV was awarded “Best in the Show” by SID and “Best in the CES” by CNET, a tech media website.

AMOLED Display: Flexible and Transparent

AMOLED is the future of the display industry highlighting its flexibility and transparency. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2, expected to be released next month, uses a 5.5 inch flexible display, a step forward to extending Samsung’s lead over its rivals. The product utilizes Unbreakable Plane (UBP) and plastic substrate that reduces thickness by 0.4T (0.4mm), consequently increasing battery capacity.

Just last month, LG Display was selected as a supervising organization for the transparent and flexible display project led by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy. The project aims to develop a 60-inch flexible and ultra-definition display with over 40 percent transparency by 2017, with the government investing over USD 50 million in the LG Display’s consortium that includes SMEs, universities and research centers.

Transparent and flexible displays enable people to hold business meetings using office windows without using separate video-conference devices. Passengers can see transportation information on bus stop windows while drivers can use car windows as an alternative navigation system. The future display technology with its transparent and flexible displays looks to replace books and paper and shift lifestyle paradigm in diverse areas including media, publication, architecture, fashion and interior.



Investment, R&D and Training Arms Display Sector

“To be the vanguard of the future display market, Investment, R&D and highly-skilled manpower play the most important roles in setting the tone of the game. Investments by both Samsung and LG reached USD 9 billion this year on top of the R&D allotment amounting to 5% of their total sales; more investment is expected to be made next year. In terms of training, Information Technology Research Center (ITRC) for AMOLED display is set to be put up to foster OLED professionals supported by the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy. As Samsung and LG Displays are both expanding to build industry-academic cooperation centers with universities, programs to train professionals are anticipated to continually increase in the future,” said Professor Jin Jang, President of the Korean Information Display Society (KIDS) and a director of Advanced Display Research Center (ADRC) in Kyung Hee University. ADRC also played a part in training display professionals, sending over 100 masters and PhDs to Samsung and LG.

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that is !!in insane

looks like i know what i'm getting for my upgrade [pic]

new era in mobile technology starts right there [pic]

[pic] but flexible?? [pic]

Whatever positions I can bend it to will be my favorite new positions to bend my hoes into [pic]

Hopefully they add this to the GS4 next year

whoa....

that bad boy is next level..

steve job's reincarnated fetus just got aborted [pic]

Nope Apple had this patented 30 years ago....

But just filed it 2 weeks from now


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damn, thats a long[..] screen.

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this was a rumor and dismissed. the note2 is gonna have a curved display, not flexible. bx wouldnt be the first place any of us would be hearing about this if this was true...think about it

this is def gonna happen...but not yet.

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when it does happen............ Game Changer

screen in the picture looks pretty long though. don't like that one bit.

awhile back samsung showed their 5 inch 1080p (either Oled or Amoled screen. cant remember) flexible screen. it was up next for their phones. that !! was !!ing beautiful.