Remember back when screens were just screens? The capabilities of these screens and the technology that powered them differed, but at the end of the day they were just flat, rectangular or square screens. The past couple of years, however, have seen South Korean companies like LG and Samsung mixing things up with everything from round screens, to curved screens, and now even foldable screens. Apparently the foldable screens that LG has been developing for a while are actually ready for mass-production, and are expected to claims a significant chunk of the market for displays next year.
In just two years, we have gone from curved, like on the LG G Flex or in a smartwatch to foldable that we will see in the upcoming smartphones and tablets, and then finally to a rollable display that could serve many applications. What is so exciting, is that these foldable and rollable displays actually deliver a high-quality image. The need for such displays in the near future is going to be phenomenal and have widespread applications from smartphones to watches to cars to TVs and so on. A person in the industry said, “Many businesses including Samsung Electronics will release foldable products in next year. Release of foldable Smartphones will create new demands in display market, which its growth is currently stagnant, and present new paradigm.” Market analyst HIS claims that the need for foldable displays will go from 0-percent this year to 24.4-percent in 2016 and eventually make up more than 50-percent of the displays by 2020.