Smart Hardware | The future world is curved--flexible screen

At Tech World 2016, Lenovo has shown a mobile phone that can be worn on the wrist like a wide, fashionable band. has been to "tough guy" image of the mobile phone, how to get a kung fu has been a "contortion" it?

This is thanks to it, a "flexible screen" that we have said for a long time but have not yet achieved mass production, and it is the protagonist we are going to talk about today.

What is a flexible screen?

flexible screens are typically made of ultra-thin OLED materials that can be mounted on flexible materials such as plastic or foil, unlike traditional LCDs that need to be fixed in glass panels. In layman's terms, the screen refers to the piece of electronic material that hides behind glass or plastic. So when MTK, Samsung, LG or other manufacturers refer to the flexible screen, they are talking about the layer of OLED underneath the glass.

So what is OLED?

OLED full name is an organic light emitting diode (organiclight-emitting Diode), some foreign also known as electromechanical laser display (Organic electroluminesence display,oeld).

OLED screen because the features can be bent once applied to the mobile phone will bring a completely different experience, but also become the research direction of large-scale mobile phone manufacturers.

Samsung and LG launched the world's first AMOLED smartphone with a flexible display in 2013, respectively. The application of the flexible display on the mobile phone can be said to be the earliest and currently the most mature. In addition to Samsung, LG, Apple, Lenovo and other mobile phone manufacturers are also full of expectations of this technology.

Apple

Apple wants it to replace the LCD display that the iphone is currently using. Apple's iphone is about to use the OLED screen in 2018, according to sources.

Since the advent of the iphone in 2007, the mobile internet has been brought into the historical process, and in 2012, the smartwatch came into being. Internet of Things the era of product. Since then, smart hardware has evolved like a an arrow arrow, and has moved from investment to manufacturing in an instant. Today, in the face of the gradual prototyping of a variety of intelligent products, we can not help but to think about the future of the smart hardware industry will be what?

Smart Hardware | The future world is curved--flexible screen