Bendable (bendy) phones

Samsung has mentioned that a product is in the pipeline (2012 to be exact) and this product appears to be very much different from conventional touchscreen mobile phones. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2056232/Samsung-release-bendy-screen-mobiles-early-2012.html

Enter the bendy phone.

Nokia is also said to be pouring funds into the research of similar prototypes.

If all is true, this makes the mobile technology fraternity more exciting. We might even witness a upheaval when similar products are produced en-masse. Maybe in the next 5 years, this technology could take the world by storm.

So, what’s so great you say, about a bendy phone?

Plenty. The crux is not really about it being bendy or cylindrical or whichever odd-ball of a phone (think Nokia 3650) and how awkward it would fit in your pocket.

The fact that a screen could be so thin that it could be bent without breaking means we’ve reached another era in technology altogether. It could change our perspectives of this world, reshape how future gadgets would look like and how information reaches people.

Screen technology has been changing all the while, from black and white TV to color TV, from CRT to LCD and Plasma, then we have LED, from standard definition to high definition and now 3D – humans have been pushing the limits to which they can stretch the sizes of screen panels, adding more pixels, functionalities and making it thinner lighter.

If this news is true, chances are, the technology will definitely be replicated into e-readers, tablets, laptops, TV and even large display panels on shopping malls.

Currently, e-book readers or tablets are unable to provide the tangible “flipping experience”. What we are seeing, is a simulation of the program to turn over to the next page, which still does not beat the hand-motion that is genetically coded into everyone of us (or at least those who have read paperbacks)

A more flexible screen would definitely be welcoming news to everyone. E-book readers can now sense it when users mimic the flipping motion (I believe the new E-book tablets can now really look like a book with probably 3-5 pages, much like how a calendar looks and functions).