samsung is the largest manufacturer of small size OLED panels in the world. The smaller panels are used in smartphones and tablets including the Apple iPhone 12, Apple iPhone 13, and foldable devices such as the Galaxy Z Flip3 and Galaxy Z Fold3. Recently, the tech giant started manufacturing mid-sized OLED panels with high refresh rates for laptops. Now, as spotted by SamMobile, the company has set up a new website that showcases the different types of flexible OLED panels that it manufactures.
Korean manufacturers are calling this flexible OLED panel ‘Flex OLED’. The website mentions five sub-categories of Flex OLED – Flex Bar, Flex Note, Flex Square, Rollable Flex and Slideable Flex. The Flex Bar OLED is used in clamshell-style foldable smartphones like the Galaxy Z Flip 3 while the Flex Square OLED is used for foldable smartphones like the Galaxy Z Fold 3. Flex Note OLEDs are for laptops with foldable screens.
Slidable Flex OLEDs can be used on devices with slidable screens. A prototype of such a device was showcased by Oppo last year, but there is no word yet on the production of the smartphone from the company. The Rollable Flex OLED by Samsung can be used in devices with rollable screens. One such device is the LG Rollable TV which comes with a rollable screen. Samsung doesn’t have a product that has a slideable flex or a rollable flex, but it’s likely that we might see a device with these OLEDs soon.
The company claims that even with heavy usage of 100 folds a day, the Ultra Thin Glass stands up to more than five years of continuous use. In tests verified by Bureau Veritas, it’s equivalent to tolerating over 200,000 folds and still working fine.
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