Mobile phone manufacturers next battlefield--surface screen

Surface screen

Surface screen has become the future of mobile phones, smart TV changes in the shape of a trend, from the beginning of last year, Samsung's Galaxy Edge, LG G Flex2 are the representatives of surface-screen mobile phones, before the Korean media reported that the shape of millet 5 will be copied Samsung Galaxy Edge mobile phone, will also use the surface In the current patent of the iphone, a surface screen patent has also been applied, inadvertently showing the future trend of the surface screen.

Now the increasingly serious Android homogeneity, mobile phone manufacturers to find a differentiated selling point is not easy, folding surface screen mobile phone is undoubtedly a big selling point in the next few years, engage in machine brother to popularize the surface screen used OLED technology:

OLED display technology has the characteristics of self luminescence, the use of very thin organic material coating and glass substrate, when the current through the organic materials will glow, and OLED display screen visual angle, and can save energy.

OLED in the Mobile phone screen application direction, one is thin, within five years, should be a big impact on the LCD TV, like LCD TV to CRT, plasma, rear projection TV, like the impact of television can be made into a millimeter thickness, not hanging on the wall, is simply affixed to the wall. The second direction is the flexible display, in this direction, there will be many applications, such as mobile phone and wear equipment fusion (now wear equipment such as watches difficult to support the large screen), such as the science fiction film in the scalable display, can be achieved in flexible OLED.

1, Surface screen smart phone Advantages:

The current surface screen makes full use of OLED features to make the image reappear brighter and more vivid, and minimizes glare. Flexible screen with a special plastic production, compared to the traditional rigid brittle face glass plane, more flexible, not easy to break, more resistant to fall. Nevertheless, the special materials of OLED screens are affected by air and moisture contact, and their durability will be greatly reduced. But the traditional glass material can adapt well to the climate environment. Therefore, the glass material is considered to be the solution to the future "folding" surface screen mobile phone durability problem of an economical and effective way.

In addition, with the guidance of surface screen technology, future smartphone processors and other important components may also be "bent" like OLED screens. But before that, in addition to a few of the advantages mentioned above, the surface screen smart phone Another advantage may be only on the phone when the face contour.

2, the shortcomings of the surface screen smartphone:

Surface screen mobile phone prices are generally more expensive, whether in the smartphone or smart television field, there is no price to speak. The reason, or because OLED core technology is generally mastered in LG and Samsung two enterprises, known as monopolies are not excessive. OLED technology is not competitive enough to allow LG and Samsung to control the price of OLED, determine the current OLED products high-end prices.

Price is only part of the reason more or the utility of the surface screen smartphone, in fact, currently on the market a number of surface screen mobile phone appearance, the machine brother really hard to say good-looking, some design is a little exotic, a bit just the mean, in the design of the conservative, is generally unwilling to accept a major factor. Mobile phone manufacturers should take advantage of the characteristics of OLED folding, to design a few folding mobile phones, so that the phone looks a little bit of the future, this is what people want, and not now just the design of the phone to bend a bit people will accept the purchase.

Of course, OLED only has collapsible characteristics, but the current OLED technology bottleneck is far from the mobile phone manufacturers can fold the use of free, want to turn the phone into what, can change into what?

Now let's take a look at some of the typical surface-screen phones that are available on the market:

√LG G Flex2

In this year's CES, LG released LG Flex 2LG, compared to the previous generation is still the mobile phone on the middle axis as the benchmark for symmetrical bending, that is, the horizontal screen to watch the movie theater's surface experience, but in 5.5-inch G Flex 2 will be greatly reduced. So it's more practical to have a more comfortable hand, a more fitting finger slide, a more comfortable phone call, and a landline microphone.

In addition to bending the fuselage, G Flex 2 also inherited a generation of self-healing cover, the first generation of product healing scratches about 3 minutes, and the second generation is only 10 seconds on the line. This is the second selling point of the G Flex 2 Flex screen, which becomes even more important in the context of increasingly weakening smartphone configuration.

At the same time, its seismic resistance and durability has also been promoted, the internal design boasts a high elasticity, mobile phone crash is not afraid to break, this is the most obvious effect.

√LG Dual Curved Screen mobile phone

LG has focused on screen technology in recent years, at the CES exhibition this year, the second generation of curved screen mobile phone G Flex 2, but seeing the fellow's rival Samsung earlier launched the surface screen mobile phone Galaxy Note Edge, driving LG to the CES exhibition this year to publish the original model of the hyperboloid phone, "show the quali" to everyone.

According to the news, the LG display of the dual-curved screen mobile phone, screen size is 6 inches, the image is 1280 X 720, the surface on both sides of the screen can be operated independently.

Double-sided screen mobile phone although enough to have gimmicks, but the 720P screen resolution, compared to the current mainstream flagship mobile phone 2K resolution, unavoidably seems to be somewhat outdated, so that people are difficult to accept.

√galaxy Note Edge

The Galaxy Note4 Edge uses a curved surface screen, and because of the extra side screen, the handset width is 3.8mm wider than note 4, but the length is short 2.2mm. function, the side screen can display a number of gadgets, such as rulers, timers, weather, time, and some third-party applications. At the same time, also has the free of disturb function, the camera key also in the surface side screen control, very convenient, the user may also set the side screen wallpaper.

Surface screen How to apply is placed in front of all manufacturers of the topic, do not laugh at LG and Samsung, in the premise of having technology, but not how to use, Trial and error is a risk of the least innovative way, when the application of various forms to display the natural can choose relatively good ideas. In the case of limited information I think Samsung doesn't care about this Galaxy Note Edge sales, but care about the "first" reputation, even if a future manufacturer launched a better use of the surface screen products can not be around the title of the follower. Galaxy Note Edge is the first smartphone to attempt to change smartphone interaction using a curved surface screen.

Shortly before, the iphone had applied for a foldable patent, which was originally submitted by Apple in September 2011, so it appears that Apple has been working on a folding screen for some time, but since IPhone6 just released Apple is unlikely to release a new iphone in a short time, and Apple's offering of flexible products seems to be at least a few more years. In any case, collapsible surface screen is the future of smart phone development of a broad direction, whether Apple or Samsung, LG or whatever, will not be indifferent to this piece, they will endlessly explore the future of folding smartphone should be what kind?