Comments on: Flexible Displays – The Lion’s Den

By: windsorr

windsorr — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:19:05 +0000

This new plastic has two major advanatges before one comes to bendiness. 1) Its tougher than gorilla glass. this means ess smashed screens and scrathes. 2) its much thinner and lighter. This leaves space in the device for more battery or for the handset makrer to make an even thinner / lighter device. Corning already has a product to address this called Willow Glass and by all accounts its excellent. Smasung at the moment are doing theirs in house.

By: tatilsever

tatilsever — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:45:09 +0000

By the way, I was not asking about the difference between the old plastic screens and the new ones as a rhetorical device or as snark. I really am curious about the differences. I keep reading about the new gen plastic screens, but I do not see any information about them in the popular press other than that they are bendable.

By: tatilsever

tatilsever — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:46:54 +0000

“- First, flat displays using plastic rather than glass as a substrate.”
How is that different than the plastic screens that used to dominate smartphones before iPhone made glass screen standard? Plastic screens were more prone to scratches, but did not shatter if dropped. You’d think there would be some who prefer scratches over the possibility of a shattered screen, but apparently demand was not there, or at least some manufacturers would stick with plastic for their high end phones. I wonder if this new gen plastic screens would be any different.

Glass can also be bent into a rigid curve, but I guess lighter weight plastic may fare better for smart watches if that idea ever takes off.