Samsung is one of the companies that has been working on folding screens for the longest time. Over the years, he shows us how he wants the smartphone of the future to be, and for that has registered a large number of patents related to folding screens. According to ET News, the firm LG has created has also been investigating in this aspect has developed a prototype of a folding OLED panel, a panel that apparently has attracted the attention of Apple, Microsoft and Google, who could implement it and their future devices , whether mobile or portable.
All the rumors suggest that Apple could start using OLED panels with the launch of the next iPhone, be it the 7s, 8 or 10 (on the tenth anniversary, Apple may give us a surprise with the nomenclature of the iPhone). Samsung and LG have been fighting to take over the manufacture of these panels but apparently the LG firm is the one that has taken the cat to the water and will be in charge of its manufacture.
At the moment the prototype that LG has shown to this consortium, it has a very high price to manufactureBut as technology advances, the cost of manufacturing will drop and can be implemented in most devices. What strikes me the most about this supposed prototype is that we have no record of LG having registered any device that allows the screen to be folded, as Samsung and Apple have done in recent months.
We do not know if this association of companies is due to the fact that they want to stand up to the almighty Samsung in this field, or although Samsung does not want to manufacture for third parties to have exclusively, at least in the first years, the monopoly of devices with folding screens, something that would surely make them attract a large number of new customers interested in it.