Samsung announces Flex Hybrid at CES 2023
Flexible OLED displays have enabled the creation of a new generation of foldable smartphones, opening a new path in the design of innovative mobile products. Whether book-shaped like the Galaxy Z Fold4 or folding up like a flip smartphone to take advantage of a compact form factor, these new device types revamp traditional smartphone design. Flexible displays are also at the heart of developments in the interior of modern cars, with on-board instruments, a center console and side screens matching the shape of the dashboards and on-demand actionable displays. These foldable screens are a first step and manufacturers are already working on new possibilities to go further and give new formats to smartphones and tablets, and even notebooks.
The Flex Hybrid screen has a foldable and stretchable part that allows for various combinations depending on whether the elements are deployed or not, offering a 10.5-inch display in 4:3 format and going up to a 12.4-inch display in 16 aspect ratio. :9.
Samsung Display touts it as the future of smart mobile devices but doesn’t say when, or if its integration, will be effective in a commercial product. In addition to the Flex Hybrid, the company presented another genre, the Flex Duet concept, which was initially presented last September by the CEO of Samsung Display, JS Choi, during the Intel Innovation event.
Flex Hybrid
It is a screen that extends on both sides to provide a size of 13 to 14 inches when folded and 17.3 inches when fully extended. This type of screen can be found in 13-inch productivity laptops and 17-inch entertainment laptops, all in the same device.
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