LG Display, a subsidiary of LG Electronics, to provide flexible panels to Apple, Google and Microsoft, according to a report from ET News.
The manufacturer in south korea will begin mass-producing the foldable panels (as they are also known), beginning in 2018, to ensure that their customers begin to use them in smart phones in that year, the report says citing its own sources.
ET News says that LG is using technology and factories of other companies (not mentioned above), but the majority of the components for these screens are made by the own manufacturer.
Samsung Display, another of the manufacturers involved in the panels of this kind, will fight to the death with LG Display by having any of these customers. The two asian companies already have functional prototypes of flexible screens on phones.
ET News says that Apple will unveil its first phone with curved screen in 2017, which will mean the first steps of the giant from Cupertino to the screens folding.
The screens folding can be folded as if it were a wallet — unlike screens with curves that have small details bent, but that its rigid nature prevents them from bending; an example of a curved screen is the samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.
it Is expected that in 2017, the phones grab the fashion to remove the bevels; but it appears to 2018 onwards, the manufacturers take the time to help in making their phones can be folded in half, facilitating its portability.
Samsung and Apple are two of the manufacturers technology with more patents related to flip phones, with the giant south Korean with the one that has the largest amount. Even, it is rumored that Samsung will announce Project Valley in 2017, its first phone for the masses capable of bending.
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