Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Flexible smartphone screens
Are bendable smartphone screens really that useful? What practical purpose would they really serve? We can't yet reasonably make bendable circuitry or cameras. It also doesn't sound terribly useful for touchscreens either. Even if the curved screen is permanently curved, that just makes me feel like it would be difficult to keep in my pocket. I could see bendable screens possibly being useful in other applications, but not in smartphones. I'm hoping the industry will prove me wrong but, I'm not confident that they can.
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At this point in time, bendable smartphones don't have much value. I can only think of it being a mechanism to make the phone sturdier with small children. I agree that the phone industry will unlikely put this to good use, but I believe that it is a step for a different great idea. Because phones can bend, it may give another industry to apply that feature to their product.
ReplyDeleteI agree that currently its purposes are very limited and probably not well suited for the smartphone market. The flexibility might be useful in another field as others hear about it and start to think of better applications of the flexible feature.
ReplyDeleteLast weekend my wife dropped her cell phone and it cracked the screen and broke the digitizer rendering her phone useless. Perhaps more bendable phones would be more forgiving of mistakes like that.
ReplyDeleteIf it makes the screens more durable, I am all for it. My brother still uses a phone that he can only read half the phone because he dropped it. Still one year for an upgrade too....
ReplyDeleteHopefully this research into new screens will lead to screens that can survive being dropped from 4-5 feet.
Perhaps flexible screens will be useful in other circumstances, but the smartphone industry will be the catalyst to making them practical.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jared regarding if the flexible screens are more durable. If you keep your phone in your pocket, its screen undergoes stresses that you don't really think about just by walking around or crouching. I've had two cellphones get cracked screens just from crouching while they were in my pocket. If the flexible screens can prevent that, let's roll them out.
ReplyDeleteAssuming we one day can get to rollable screens, imagine a cell phone with a completely retractable screen. Thats seems like it would be the next generation of mobile tech.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see the implications of this.
ReplyDeleteBut if we're all wearing head-mounted displays in the future, then we won't need screens anymore!
ReplyDeleteLol, what a joke, $900+ for a bent phone
ReplyDeletehttp://www.engadget.com/gallery/lg-g-flex-hands-on/1589439/#!slide=1589479