Everything you need to know about the Flexible Display Smartphones

What is a flexible display? Is there any real flexible display smartphone? What’s the future of flexible display smartphones? How it will change the market trend? These are one of the few questions that come to everyone’s mind. We have already seen the Samsung Galaxy Round and LG G Flex but we do not know what Samsung or LG mean when they say their devices have flexible displays. Is there any difference between the flexible display smartphones and bendable phones? Let’s find out.

What is a Flexible Display anyway?

When we talk about flexible display we are not talking about the actual bending screen mobile phones. It is actually the organic LED or OLED layer beneath the actual screen that is now made of flexible material like a plastic instead of rigid glass etc. Both the devices available in the market right now do not bend in your hands. The device body is curved overall but the body is rigid and so it will not bend in your hand.

Why need a Flexible Display? Is there any benefit?

Display is something that you interact with every time you use your device. Be it is for playing games, logging into your social accounts like Gmail.com or Facebook, checking up calls etc. So one should think, why need a flexible display when it is all good and looks okay.  Well there are few benefits to use curved display on smartphones.

Firstly, the curved display will significantly increase the readability of the device since not the entire screen is pointed directly towards the readers face. Secondly, with curved display, the user will face les glare from it. Another very important benefit is that the phone is less prone to breakage when dropped since the flat screen will hit straight to the ground whereas the flexible or curved display will hit only from the corners.

Which is better, flexible OLED or LCD?

Before answering this question, you should clear your mind that OLED display is made up of plastic whereas LCD is made of glass. So in light of this fact, OLED can be easily curved, folded or bent as compared to LCD. LCD glass can be made flexible but then it will be very volatile to breakage. LCD is made up of two sheets of glass in which there is a crystal material is placed that enhances the light that goes through it. Whereas OLED does not need this sort of arrangement, it only needs one piece of glass to serve its purpose. Hence, OLED is a better candidate for flexible display.

What is the future of Flexile Display?

Since the flexible display is made up of plastic, it will surely help increasing the market for flexible display smartphones. But the plastic has its own disadvantages. Right now, the companies have a manufacturing cycle that suits best for glass but in order to use plastic for flexible display, they have to renovate their whole manufacturing process. Another issue here is that plastic is semipermeable, means that air and water can pass through it or leak into the device. But with the speed the industry is making progress, it will no longer be an issue as soon as the companies find the proper answer to these problems.