While buying a smartphone can be confusing in this age of myriad lucrative options, keeping what you bought alive and running is no cakewalk either. With glass taking over traditional design language of most smartphones, the good old days of dropping a Nokia 3310 and not having to worry about it are long gone. However,…
While buying a smartphone can be confusing in this age of myriad lucrative options, keeping what you bought alive and running is no cakewalk either. With glass taking over traditional design language of most smartphones, the good old days of dropping a Nokia 3310 and not having to worry about it are long gone. However, Samsung believes that those very carefree days could be brought back, and to that extent, it has come up with ‘unbreakable’ OLED display tech.
The Korean smartphone manufacturing giant is reliably learned to have developed new OLED display units that are rather hard to kill. The OLED displays use a fortified plastic to make for great resistance to any whips, and the news is that they have already been tested and certified. The highest safety testing body in the US, called Underwriters Laboratories (UL), made the new display units go through 26 drop tests, where the new Samsung OLED displays were dropped from a height of four feet, and nothing happened. Which is to say, a new, great thing happened — the displays didn’t break and in fact looked as neat as ever. The same panels were given for fewer drop tests where they were dropped from a height of 6 feet, and yet they managed to survive, and that too without any visible damage.
There were also extreme climate tests, where the new displays were tested at temperatures as meltingly high as 71 degrees Celsius, and as freezingly low as -32 degrees Celsius. The new displays, instead of melting or freezing, worked just fine anyway.
The development has unsurprisingly come as a major win for Samsung, whose officials are buoyant about the new technology. Samsung executive Hojung Kim said, “The fortified plastic window is especially suitable for portable electronic devices, not only because of its unbreakable characteristics, but also because of its lightweight, transmissivity, and hardness, which are all very similar to glass.”
Well, it is rather obvious that Samsung will see an uptick in sales soon as it can start mass producing the new ‘unbreakable’ OLED displays for its smartphones, which, we are expecting, will happen next year.
