Samsung unveils flexible smartphone

PanARMENIAN.Net - Samsung has unveiled a prototype phone with a flexible display, meaning it can be folded almost like paper, Digital Spy said.

During its keynote speech at the CES 2013 trade show yesterday (January 9), the Korean firm showed off the bendy display technology, as well as a phone with a curved display.

Instead of glass, the flexible phone features super-thin plastic that means it is bendable and unbreakable. The device demonstrated at the keynote ran Windows Phone 8 rather than Android.

Samsung is creating a whole new range of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) flexible displays under the Youm branding.

The screens can be made super-thin and flexible as they use OLED technology, which generates its own light and so does not need to be backlit like traditional LCD screens.

Microsoft's chief technical strategy officer Eric Rudder came on stage to show a working Windows Phone 8 prototype phone with Samsung's new Youm screen.

The demonstration unit had the bendy display attached to a box containing the processor. The phone was shown to flex and bend without any major distortion to the colours or icons.