Samsung: Get ready to BEND OVER – foldable fondleslabs 'by 2016'... Samsung has stuck a timeline on its introduction of foldable screens on phones and tablets at its Analyst Day in Korea today, aiming to bring the tech out in late 2015 or early 2016. Youtube Video The electronics firm had already teased its vision for foldable phones in a rather terrible advert it aired at CES earlier this …
I think 'bender' a peculiarly British epithet. I get the impression it's not even that popular with the yoof of today.
Witness the frequent use of the term 'bender' in the (atrocious) film 'The Last Airbender' which had people snickering on this side of the Atlantic, but didn't raise so much as an eyebrow stateside.
>To be able to roll up or fold up, your mobile device requires foldable and bendable batteries, processors, memory and other bits, not just flexible screens.
Er... You might need flexible components to roll it up, but to fold it up you only need a flexible screen. See: a hardback book. However, for a 5" tall phone of conventional form, the folding approach would give a roughly 7" diagonal squarish screen, whereas the roll-up approach could give a roughly 10" 'widescreen' (or ratio of your choice).
As a culture, we've largely settled on books over scrolls, other than for projector screens (not the most robust of structures)
re. rolling it up: this is possible with PlasticLogic's printed organic circuits and maybe Samsung are using some of that technology in the screen. I think larger formats like newspapers and magazines get rolled up for transport, but you're right about the form factor - the eye finds it much easier to orientate on a fixed layout like a physical page rather than on something infinite. Roll-on paged media extensions for CSS!
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