Now, I’m pretty sure everyone has heard of the LG G2 – you know, the phone that had its button placement redesigned and placed at the back of the phone, right below the camera. The Oppo N1 has the same feat, which instead of placing the buttons there, Oppo has placed a trackpad there on the N1.
However this isn’t about how LG and Oppo fared out. It’s about how LG fares out with Samsung in the battle of flexible display.
Well, sure flexible display isn’t particularly new, and the G Flex isn’t the first in the market with flexible display. I’d point out though, that the Samsung’s Galaxy Round is curved at the sides, whereas the LG G Flex is curved from top to bottom, just like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is. Also, this is not only a battle on how flexible the screens are, but it’s about how the entire phones will take advantage of the new technology.
Let’s take a look on how LG tells their story of the G Flex.
So you can see that given the flexible display, the phone can be flattened completely and the phone chassis is indeed accommodating to its technology very well.
Of course that’s nothing as amazing as how the self-healing back is. The video is shown where they tested scratching the entire phone’s back with copper brushes at a controlled condition. Obviously the world isn’t that ideal, so someone took the G Flex to test it out on their own.
It’s nothing short of amazing, I’d say. The back’s self-healing technology is indeed working very well – covering if not healing from scratches, whereas on other competition devices, the scratches would have been permanent and heartbreaking (not to mention eyesore too).
The G Flex has this special self-recovery technology that is essentially what engineers will know it as nanotechnology, has an ability of “fix” itself over some time. This is not the first time we’ve seen materials that can fix itself, but this is the first time that it’s ever implemented on a phone’s back cover. Previously, ZAGG – a mobile device accessory designer – made the invisibleSHIELD, which uses nanotechnology in their screen protectors.
So let’s move on to what nanotechnology has to do with the display. In concept – at least for Samsung’s Youm display – it has graphene, which is essentially a 2D layer of hexagonal formations of carbon atoms, to hold the entire screen’s structure together, and also provide the flexibility alongside with the strength altogether. Graphene has been dubbed the “wonder material” for many years now, and it continues to live up to that legend.
Nanotechnology of course still has a long way to go in improving what it can do as it is still a pretty new field of technology. Nokia too had a vision, and I mentioned it a few times before, though there aren’t any news about it even until today, yet the video is already 5 years old.
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