LG plans November launch of flexible screen smartphone

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time October 4, LG electronic plans to launch next month, flexible screen smartphone, and long-term rival Samsung Electronics in a new field to compete. Samsung announced in September that it plans to launch its own-made, flexible-screen smartphone this month. Samsung Electronics has yet to disclose the specific parameters of the company's flexible-screen smartphone. LG's new mobile phone screen, called G Flex, is six inches and uses organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology, a person familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. From the prototype sketch, this phone is slightly concave. The people familiar with the matter said the G-Flex mobile phone would use the OLED screen known as the plastic made by LG, making the screen more flexible than the traditional liquid crystal display screen (LCD). In the industry, OLED screens are more lightweight and manufacturers can produce different shapes of screens because OLED screens do not need to be backlit like LCD screens. But OLED materials have a disadvantage, that is very sensitive to humidity. This June, LG Electronics said: "Our first flexible display of the development work has been completed." We will start the flexible display production in the four quarter of this year. "It is understood that LG electronic production of flexible display will not be exclusive, they are planning to sell their flexible screen to other handset manufacturers." (Xiaoran)