Justin Denison, senior vice president of product strategy and marketing for Samsung Electronics America Inc, speaks during the Samsung Developers Conference in California where he introduced a new phone with a foldable screen.
On Wednesday, after years of rumors and speculation, Samsung finally presented a smartphone with a foldable display that it plans to start selling next year. At the risk of sounding like a wide-eyed teenager, I consider this a potentially disruptive innovation on the scale of the iPhone – if the manufacturers can handle it right.
The technology has been more or less ripe for a while: The organic light-emitting compounds and the circuitry that delivers electric charges to them can be printed onto film as well as fused into inflexible glass. But the challenges of producing a device with a flexible display have been formidable.
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