“Imagine a world in the future. People don’t need to hold both a mobile phone and a laptop. They only need to hold a smart handheld device with an OLED screen. Together they are a small-screen mobile phone and a large-screen notebook.” IHS Technology shows Department Research General Manager Xie Qinyi pointed out at the 12th China International Display Conference held on November 17.
OLED is currently at a crossroads of development, and flexible OLED is a differentiated development direction. Xie Qinyi believes that there is no shortcut to the evolution of flexible OLED technology, and there is no previous experience, and many technical blind spots can only be eliminated through continuous exploration. The first thing to be solved is bending, but Samsung Display believes that it is not difficult to implement flexible AMOLED. The difficulty lies in the flexible touch screen, and bonding is a big technical challenge. To this end, Samsung has made many attempts to integrate optical films, which can be used as a reference for domestic panel manufacturers.
This year, the domestic OLED investment boom has caused OLED to attract the attention of many manufacturers and capital. Xie Qinyi believes that OLED is not intended to replace LCD, but to give birth to a new kind of handheld device, and this differentiated handheld device may require flexible OLED.
But light flexibility is not enough to change mobile phones or computers, and creative designs are needed. Xie Qinyi pointed out that the diagonal line of the three 5.5-inch panels is 9.7 inches. That is to say, the three iPhone panels line up exactly as an iPad mini, so you can imagine a world in the future where people don’t need to carry both mobile phones and laptops. , You only need to hold a smart handheld device with an OLED screen, which is a mobile phone with a small screen, and a notebook with a large screen when unfolded.
If you want to develop in this direction, let the three panels stick together to make a bendable panel, you must remove the frame of the phone and erase the corners of the phone. In addition, there is a major challenge to remove the Home button. In this regard, someone has pointed out a solution-fingerprint recognition can be realized on the panel.
The OLED fever this time is related to Apple. It is reported that Apple’s next-generation iPhone will use OLED screens, but how will Apple use OLED screens? Xie Qinyi pointed out that with the increase of the OLED supply chain, Apple may launch the concept of flexible OLED screens next year. Sexual phones, but more likely it is the bezel-less iPhone. It can be predicted that by 2018 Apple mobile phones will fully adopt OLED screens, and foldable OLED screen mobile phones will be made in 2019 and 2020.
Xie Qinyi pointed out that the homogeneity of mobile phones is now very serious, and the differentiated design may arouse consumers' desire to change phones. However, the development of flexible OLED does not depend on the development status of the OLED industry, and the future possibility of OLED is not determined purely by the supply side. Because 3D TV used to be popular for a while, but 3D is not a hard demand, and users don't necessarily pay for it.
Xie Qinyi said that in the development of flexible OLEDs, flexible OLEDs can only be regarded as real when flexible OLEDs become hard requirements, mobile phones and computers are integrated through design, and such handheld smart devices become an indispensable part of life. success.
