Flexible OLED displays are one of those fantastic technologies that is actually real, but never seems to show up anywhere besides trade shows. That may change if recent reports from Samsung are true, as they report “huge” orders from unnamed electric makers. They’re pretty vague on details, but do mention one well-named possible customer:
The same reports also suggest that Apple may be behind those “huge” orders. We do know that Apple is interested in flexible OLEDs, but it doesn’t seem likely that they are actually planning to start using these displays soon. In any case the first “flexible” OLEDs will probably not be really flexible. They will be plastic based though, which means that they are quite shutterproof, in addition to being thin and light. It will also be possible to fix them on curved surfaces.
via Samsung: we’re getting “huge” orders for flexible OLED panels.
