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LG to demo 5-inch unbreakable and flexible plastic OLED panel at SID

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LG to demo 5inch flexible and unbreakable plastic OLED panel at SID 2013

LG’s got quite a bit in store for us this week at SID’s annual display exhibition in Vancouver. In addition to that 55-inch curved OLED TV we first heard about last month, the company will be demonstrating a very nifty 5-inch OLED panel. Created for mobile devices, the display is constructed of plastic, making it both flexible and unbreakable — certainly a welcome quality when it comes to smartphone design.

Also on display will be 5- and 7-inch HD Oxide TFT panels. That first size features a bezel that’s just 1mm wide, enabling a borderless frame when installed in smartphones. Both displays are lightweight and consume less power than their traditional equivalents. Finally, LG will have a 14-inch 2560×1440-pixel laptop panel on hand, along with LCDs designed for use in refrigerators and automotive dashboards. We’ll be live from the SID show floor later this week — check back for our hands-ons with all of these new LG panels, and quite a bit more.

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Samsung Galaxy Note III hopes dashed: Plastic body and no flexible display tipped

Posted by on May 16, 2013 No comments

It seems that Samsung will be sticking with their usual ways with the third iteration of the Galaxy Note. While it’s been rumored that the phablet-style smartphone would sport a new aluminum design, as well as a flexible AMOLED display, it’s been recently tipped that the Korean company will stick with its plastic design used

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Crave Ep. 119: The flexible MorePhone contorts when you get a call

Posted by on May 3, 2013 No comments

This week on Crave, we sing a love song in Klingon and behold the strange beauty of a DDoS attack. Plus, it’s time for another round of “Into It Not Into It”! [Read more]

    




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LG’s first flexible OLED phone due before the year is out

Posted by on April 25, 2013 No comments

LG plans to launch a flexible OLED smartphone before the end of the year, the company’s VP of mobile has confirmed, though it’s unclear to what extent the work-in-progress handset will actually flex. The OLED panel in question is the handiwork of LG Display according to VP of LG mobile Yoon Bu-hyun, the WSJ reports, with

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A Flexible Keyboard with Buttons That Feel Clickable

Posted by on April 9, 2013 No comments

Transparent, shape-changing plastics could make touch screens and keyboards that stimulate users’ sense of touch.

A very thin keyboard that uses shape-changing polymers to replicate the feel and sound of chunky, clicking buttons could be in laptops and ultrabooks next year. Strategic Polymers Sciences, the San Francisco-based company that developed the keyboard, is working on transparent coatings that would enable this feature in touch screens.







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E-ink reference phone and flexible display hands-ons (video)

Posted by on February 27, 2013 No comments

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Looking for your dream phone? Chances are, this isn’t it — but it could be the precursor to what could eventually be cradled in your pocket, especially if you are a fan of E-ink. The device seen above and in the first gallery below is one of just five prototypes of the E-ink reference phone in existence. The point? The company wants to have a tangible Android-powered (2.3.5 Gingerbread, to be exact) model to give to potential partners, so they can craft something similar down the road. We’re told that it will most likely be used on the back of color phones, much like the YotaPhone, but partners are welcome to get crazy on the front screen as well. No official timeframe for availability or seeding has been set, but it is expected to roll out in limited capacity sometime this year.

Official specs are few and far between, but what we do know is that this nameless phone is driven by a Cortex-A5 CPU of some kind. Given that this is an extremely early prototype, the E-ink device had a lot of bugs when we played with it: force closes, reboots and slow response are among the things we noticed. However, we imagine this will continue to improve with time, so by the time of seeding it may be a completely different story.

The UI reminds us of a simplistic feature phone geared toward the basic user, with six icons on the front screen including an app menu. As we’d expect, the phone is great for reading books, and it comes with the option to install applications (though it’s possible most games wouldn’t look that great). You can also shake the device to clean the text in case it ends up getting “dirty,” or misaligned.

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Alcatel-Lucent hopes to make data plans more flexible

Posted by on February 14, 2013 No comments

Through its new Smart Plan platform, Alcatel-Lucent wants to make mobile subscription plans more flexible and allow data packages to be shared among users and handed out by companies to their customers using an application on smartphones and tablets.
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Bending Your Ear: Fujifilm’s Flexible Speakers

Posted by on February 7, 2013 No comments

Fujifilm solves a problem you didn’t know you had, with a “viscoelastic” polymer.

Although I’ve mentioned my own skepticism about the utility of a flexible smartphone (see “Why Do We Want a Flexible Phone?”), the quest for that grail continues apace. Screens are just the beginning of that quest (see “Flexible Smartphone Batteries”), and researchers are now broaching the interesting question of how to achieve flexible speakers.







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Why Do We Want a Flexible Phone?

Posted by on February 5, 2013 No comments

The idea of a flexible phone is cool. But will it be a revolutionary product?

There’s been a lot of talk of late (stoked sometimes, I admit, by myself) about the prospect of flexible smartphone screens. But as I pointed out last month, screens are only part of the equation in the journey towards a wholly flexible phone: “You’d still have to tackle the phone’s innards, too,” was how I put it (see “Flexible Smartphone Batteries”).







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What it really takes to make a flexible phone (Smartphones Unlocked)

Posted by on February 2, 2013 No comments

A bendable screen is nice in the lab, but it will take more than flexi-glass to get your phone to touch its toes. [Read more]


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A step closer to bendable phones: flexible lithium-ion battery unveiled

Posted by on January 17, 2013 No comments

We’re  one step closer to seeing bendable phones hit the market.


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Flexible Smartphone Batteries

Posted by on January 17, 2013 No comments

A discovery from a Korean research team gets us closer.

The road to a bendable smartphone has proved, perhaps fittingly, long and winding. Most efforts so far have focused on making flexible displays (see “Towards Flexible Mobile Screens”), with interesting advances from the likes of Samsung. But even if you succeeded in making the screen of a smartphone flexible, you’d still have to tackle the phone’s innards, too, if you ultimately want to be able to roll up the thing like a sheet of paper. To tackle that problem, you’re going to need to have a flexible battery.







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Revolutionary tablet is as thin and flexible as paper

Posted by on January 9, 2013 No comments

A team from Canada’s Queen’s University has invented PaperTab, which redefines the tablet’s form as a flexible, paper-like touchscreen computer.


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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: biological concrete, flexible solar cells and the top wearable tech of 2012

Posted by on December 30, 2012 No comments
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

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New Year’s Eve is fast approaching, and workers in New York City are hard at work installing 32,256 LED lights on the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball. As we close the book on 2012, Inhabitat has been reflecting on all the top clean energy and green technology stories from the past year. From news that Germany met half the country’s energy needs with solar power to an Egyptian teenager who built a new quantum space propulsion system, 2012 was a big year for clean tech. To ring in the New Year we also rounded up the top green transportation and wearable technology posts, and we’re inviting all our reader to vote on the stories they liked best!

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Flexible Solar Cells Can Stick to Just About Any Surface

Posted by on December 21, 2012 No comments

Researchers describe a way to make solar cells that can be applied like stickers to different surfaces, broadening applications.







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Peanut Labs Launches Samplify, Promising A DIY, Flexible Approach To Market Research

Posted by on December 6, 2012 No comments

samplifySocial media research company Peanut Labs is launching a new product today called Samplify, which co-founder and CEO Noman Ali described as a “DIY” approach to the company’s core sampling product.

Normally, setting up a sampling project (i.e., surveying a representative sample of the population for market research) with Peanut Labs or another company requires a lot of back-and-forth, Ali said, often over email — “from delivery feasibility to cost estimates to project set up to soft launch and then continuous monitoring while the project is in field.”
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All-Carbon Solar Cells Will Mean Cheap and Flexible Solar Panels

Posted by on November 18, 2012 No comments

Flexible photovoltaics made of carbon promise low cost and durability, if their performance can be improved.

Using a grab bag of novel nanomaterials, researchers at Stanford University have built the first all-carbon solar cells. Their carbon photovoltaics don’t produce much electricity, but as the technology is perfected, all-carbon cells could be inexpensive, printable, flexible, and tough enough to withstand extreme environments and weather.







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Towards Flexible Mobile Screens

Posted by on November 16, 2012 No comments

Samsung is rumored to take the lead.

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Gmail now searchable by size, more flexible date options

Posted by on November 14, 2012 No comments

Latest tweak follows series of improvements to Gmail as Google waits to see what Yahoo has up its sleeve. [Read more]


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Are Flexible Mobile Data Plans Finally Here? Andreessen Horowitz Leads $15.5M Round In ItsOn

Posted by on October 30, 2012 No comments

Screen Shot 2012-10-29 at 9.00.59 PMEven as data usage has skyrocketed, U.S. carriers have remained stubbornly wedded to post-paid plans that offer users a surprisingly limited menu of pricing options. Yes, we’re talking about those monthly subscriptions that easily reach above $ 100 a month — even if you hardly touch voice calls or if you always come in far beneath your monthly data limit.

But this may be about to change. Andreessen Horowitz just led a $ 15.5 million round in a company that’s been in stealth working on this exact problem for the past four years.
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Reebok-CCM partnering on impact-sensing flexible sports cap, hopes to improve real-time injury analysis

Posted by on October 27, 2012 No comments

New flexible sports cap could bring better head impact analysis to the game

While the whack of two helmets might be an unavoidable part of some high intensity sports, knowing a little more about what’s going on during those impacts can mean the difference between a time out, and time in hospital. Reebok-CCM Hockey and electronics form MC10 have just announced that they are developing a wearable cap that will register the strength and severity of head impacts during games. The project is actually aimed at all sports and age-groups, and uses high-performance electronics reshaped into an ultra-thin, breathable, flexible system that technology partner, MC10, expects to also be much more affordable. The cap will allow quick analysis through the use of different colored readouts, illustrating the strength of impact. The product won’t be commercially available until next year however, but we’re already thinking of potential worthy collaborations.

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Lenovo gets flexible with new Windows 8 laptops

Posted by on October 9, 2012 No comments

The Chinese PC giant touts “convertibles” during a New York event. No, not cars, but laptops that can be switched into tablets. [Read more]


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LG Chem develops very flexible cable batteries, may leave mobile devices tied up in knots

Posted by on September 2, 2012 No comments

LG Chem develops cableshaped flexible batteries, may leave mobile devices tied up in knots

The world is no stranger to flexible batteries, but they’ve almost always had to be made in thin sheets — that doesn’t amount to a long running time if you’re powering anything more than a watch. LG Chem has developed a flexible lithium-ion battery that’s not just better-suited to our bigger gadgets but could out-do previous bendable energy packs. Researchers found that coating copper wires with nickel-tin and coiling them briefly around a rod results in a hollow anode that behaves like a very strong spring; mating that anode with a lithium-ion cell leads to a battery that works even when it’s twisted up in knots. Join multiple packs together, and devices could have lithium-ion batteries that fit many shapes without compromising on their maximum deliverable power. Some hurdles remain to creating a production-grade battery, such as a tendency for the pack to shed a small amount of capacity whenever it’s put under enough stress. LG Chem is fully set on turning these cable batteries into shippable technology, however, and could ultimately produce mobile devices and wearables that really do bend to their owners’ every whim.

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Flexible Robot Comes with Camouflage

Posted by on August 17, 2012 No comments

A new flexible, color-shifting “soft robot” microfluidics networks – super small, interconnected fluid channels that can hold either gas or liquid –control color and pattern changes as well as movement, which create camouflage. The networks, embedded in sheets of silicon, are placed on the surface of soft robots. The research was done in the lab of George Whitesides at Harvard, and were inspired by nature, but published in Science.







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Flexible Robot Can Change Colors

Posted by on August 17, 2012 No comments



SternisheFan tips news of a robot designed by Harvard University researchers that can change colors to blend into its surroundings (abstract). The robot also has a soft, flexible body, and is driven by air pumped into cavities in its legs.
“The team thinks the devices could have a variety of different uses. Lead author Stephen Morin said the soft machines had similarities with organs or tissues and could have medical applications. He explained: ‘The idea is that if you have a system that can simulate muscle motion very well and a system that can transport fluid, by combining those you can fabricate that device to fit a specific surgical problem.’ The team also said the machines could have a future in search and rescue. Prof Whitesides said: ‘For that kind of application, having it be able to advertise itself, for example, in a way that stood out against the dark would be a good thing.’”

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Flexible robot gets color changing capability

Posted by on August 17, 2012 No comments

If you’re the sort geek who really likes robots, you may remember last November when I talked a little bit about a soft robot that was designed to move like a starfish. The robot was made from a soft and flexible rubber material and used compressed air pump inside the structure to move. One of

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Korean scientists solve flexible battery riddle (video)

Posted by on August 7, 2012 No comments

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We’ve got flexible displays, printed circuits, memory and even chargers — why not batteries? So far, this has eluded manufacturers, but now researchers from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have got the ball rolling with a high performance bendable lithium-ion version. As the video after the break (no sound) shows, the peel-and-stick type manufacturing process they devised allows the cell to provide constant juice, no matter how much it’s deformed. Now the scientists are looking at ways of upping the capacity, so they can power more than just Christmas tree lights and ultimately bring “the next-generation of fully flexible” devices to market. That’s no small thing, considering what some products are willing to do to fit into those tight aluminum jeans.

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LG selected to develop 60-inch flexible OLED by 2017

Posted by on July 15, 2012 No comments

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While regular consumers still wait for the first big screen OLED display to make it to big box stores, Korea’s Ministry of Knowledge Economy has chosen LG to lead the a consortium charged with developing a 60-inch flexible OLED by 2017. Part of the Future Flagship Program, its goal is to generate exports and create jobs by promoting next-generation technologies. The idea is that these flexible displays could be used in windows displaying information say at a bus stations or other public places like a store. So while it appears the focus is currently on commercial applications, we for one have our hopes that we’ll one day be able to roll down a giant OLED screen where most might expect the screen for a projector.

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Plastic Logic flexible smartphone epaper companion hands-on

Posted by on June 28, 2012 No comments

The must-have smartphone accessory of tomorrow might just be an unbreakable touchscreen epaper tablet, saving your eyes from squinting at a mobile display. Plastic Logic revealed its work-in-progress slate to us today, as SlashGear browsed the goodies in the company’s UK R&D center, confirming that talks with several manufacturers and carriers are ongoing to bring the

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Corning reveals astounding roll-up Willow glass for flexible displays

Posted by on June 4, 2012 No comments

Glass as thin and as flexible as a sheet of paper that can be printed on rolls just like a newspaper will be available to phone makers as soon as this month, said Dipak Chowdhury, head of Corning’s ultra-flexible thin-glass project Willow.




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Plastic Logic demoes flexible color display for e-readers (video)

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Plastic Logic demoes flexible color display for e-readers (video)

Plastic Logic has getting by with some eastern love since last year, when RUSNANO’s $ 700 million investment helped the e-reader maker land its Plastic Logic 100 in Russian schools. The latest fruit of that partnership is a prototype of its first flexible color e-reader display, which delivers 4,000-plus hues at a resolution of 75 ppi. The screen contains some 1.2 million plastic transistors, and it’s able to bend without distorting images thanks to a filter and display that flex at the same rate. Skip past the break for a demo clip of the tech in action, appropriately featuring some Matryoshka dolls.

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USC develops printable liquid solar cells for flexible, low-cost panels

Posted by on April 27, 2012 No comments

USC develops printable liquid solar cells for flexible, low-cost panels

Solar cells are becoming more viable sources of energy — and as they become more efficient, they’re only getting smaller and cheaper to produce. Liquid nanocrystal cells are traditionally inefficient at converting sunlight into electricity, but by adding a synthetic ligand to help transmit currents, researchers at USC have improved their effectiveness. The advantage of these liquid solar cells? They’re cheaper than single-crystal silicon wafer solutions, and they’re also a shockingly minuscule four nanometers in size, meaning more than 250 billion could fit on the head of a pin. Moreover, they can be printed onto surfaces — even plastic — without melting. Ultimately, the goal of this research is to pave the way for ultra-flexible solar panels. However, the scientists are still experimenting with materials for constructing the nanocrystals, since the semiconductor cadmium selenide they’ve used thus far is too toxic for commercial use.

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Google+ gets ‘more functional, flexible’ design

Posted by on April 11, 2012 No comments

Google Wednesday morning said it has started rolling out a redesign of its Google+ social network.
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Samsung puts Youm brand on its flexible screens

Posted by on April 8, 2012 No comments

Electronics giant envisions the technology being used in a variety of devices, such as an e-reader, a camera, and a video chat system.
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Samsung YOUM flexible AMOLED brand revealed

Posted by on April 7, 2012 No comments

Samsung has officially launched its YOUM brand for flexible AMOLED displays, ahead of the bendable panels showing up in commercial hardware later this year. Registered as a trademark – complete with a bendy YOUM logo – in mid-March, and detailed on the new Samsung Mobile Display site, YOUM promises to be thinner and lighter than traditional

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Want a roll-up iPad? LG says flexible displays are real

Posted by on March 30, 2012 No comments

LG Displays has announced plans to begin mass production of a roll-up, plastic display screen — potentially leading to tablets, iPads or even TVs you can roll up and stuff into a bag.




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LG Begins Mass Production of First Flexible E-ink Displays

Posted by on March 29, 2012 No comments



MrSeb writes “LG has just announced that it has begun mass production of the world’s first flexible, plastic e-ink display, with finished devices expected to hit Europe next month. LG says that these plastic displays are half the weight (14g) and 30% thinner (0.7mm) than the hard, heavy, prone-to-cracking glass-laminate e-ink displays found in e-book readers like the Kindle and Nook. The press release says that the plastic display survives repeated 1.5-meter drop tests and break/scratch tests with a small hammer, and that it’s flexible up to 40 degrees from the mid point. Technology-wise, it’s not very clear how LG’s e-paper actually works. The press release suggests that LG is using a conventional TFT process, which hints that they’ve cracked Electronics on Plastic by Laser Release (EPLaR). EPLaR is basically a technique of embedding electrophoretic ink capsules in a plastic substrate, but using existing TFT manufacturing processes, rather than building a whole new factory (unlike E Ink, which makes displays for the Kindle and other e-book readers). If this is the case, then other LCD manufacturers like Samsung and Sharp could start producing e-ink displays as well, hopefully driving prices down and further improving the display technology.”

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Samsung flexible OLED gadgets incoming this year

Posted by on February 29, 2012 No comments

Samsung is mass producing flexible OLED displays for products still on track for release in 2012, the company has confirmed, though the exact extent to which they actually bend will depend on more than just the panels themselves. Samsung Mobile Display’s assistant president confirmed the sales plans this week, Asia Economy Park News reports, insisting that “flexible displays [...]
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Silver Solution Ink Makes Faster Flexible Circuits

Posted by on January 19, 2012 No comments



judgecorp writes “Silver-based compounds dissolved in ammonia, could make finer and more flexible circuits, according to researchers at the University of Illinois. Existing inkjet based circuit printing systems use particles which are less predictable. The silver-based ink remains dissolved until the ammonia evaporates, and can be delivered through 100nm nozzles. In all senses, it’s a better solution.”

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Get a flexible USB adapter for $2.98 shipped

Posted by on January 3, 2012 No comments

This incredibly handy little item helps make desktop USB ports more accessible and laptop USB peripherals less cluttering.
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SwingHolder is an odd but very flexible iPad holder

Posted by on January 1, 2012 No comments

There is no shortage of iPad holders and cases on the market today. Typically, you can find plenty of cases that will prop your iPad up on a table or desk for watching movies and other content comfortably. The big problem with that sort of case is that if you aren’t sitting at a desk [...]
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Rogers Cable tries on flexible channel packages in Ontario, will customers like the fit?

Posted by on November 6, 2011 No comments

If current one-size-fits-all pay-TV packages aren’t doing it for you, then look to the north where The Globe and Mail reports Rogers is testing pay-per-package plans in the Ontario area. It starts by offering a $ 20 basic cable offering with 86 channels, to which customers can add up to 15, 20, or 30 more channels as they wish from “over 100″ possibles. If that’s not enough choice, try Quebec, where Videotron and Bell are also doing battle with a la carte channel packages, a trend that apparently does not extend to Bell’s offerings outside the region. Behind all these new options is a CRTC mandate to offer customers greater control, so we’ll wait to hear from Canucks if these are viable options when they open up November 8th. Check out the details in the press release after the break or head over to Rogers’ site to price a package for yourself.

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Samsung flexible display phones & tablets in 2012

Posted by on October 31, 2011 No comments

Samsung has reiterated plans to launch smartphones using flexible displays next year, with twistable tablets and other devices following on. “The flexible display, we are looking to introduce sometime in 2012, hopefully the earlier part” Samsung spokesperson Robert Yi confirmed during the company’s financial results call, PC World reports, going on to detail that “the application [...]
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Nokia: Flexible Kinetic smartphone possible within 3 years

Posted by on October 31, 2011 No comments

Nokia’s Kinetic flexible smartphone concept could hit the market in less than three years, the company has confirmed, offering not just a bendy screen but an entire device that can be twisted and squeezed. Shown off at Nokia World earlier this week as part of the company’s research drive, the Kinetic concept would simply require [...]
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Samsung to offer flexible displays in 2012, challenges Nokia to a twist contest

Posted by on October 30, 2011 No comments

Flexible displays? Samsung’s got ‘em, too. A few days after Nokia showed off its Kinetic Device prototype under the blue lights of Nokia World, Samsung made mention of its own plans to unleash some bendy mobile devices on the world. A spokesperson for the company was scarce on details, but noted that the flexible displays are targeted for 2012. The technology, which was showcased at this year’s CES, will initially be incorporated into handsets, with tablets following down the road.

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Samsung to sell phones with flexible screens next year

Posted by on October 28, 2011 No comments

Samsung Electronics said Friday that it is aiming to launch mobile phones with flexible displays next year, with tablets and other portable devices to have these displays soon after.
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Nokia’s kinetic future: flexible screens and a twisted interface (video)

Posted by on October 26, 2011 No comments

Hidden within Nokia’s Future Lounge, this very flexible display offers up a glimpse of what sort of thing we could possibly be dealing with when we roll up to Nokia World in 2021. The prototype Nokia Kinetic Device, including its display, can be flexed across both the vertical and horizontal planes — with bending and twisting motions controlling the interface. If you bend the screen towards yourself, it acts as a selection function, or zooms in on any pictures you’re viewing. In music mode, you can navigate, play and pause with the tactile interface. It’s still a way off from arriving on phones, though Nokia is aiming to whet developers’ appetites with this prototype. We may have seen some twisty interfaces already, but nothing packing a four-inch screen and built-in functionality like this. Nokia couldn’t confirm the screen technology being used. Could that be a flexible AMOLED display? See those impressive viewing angles and contortions after the break and judge for yourself.

Gallery: Nokia Kinetic Device hands-on

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Google and ITA’s OnTheFly app update puts flexible flight planning in your pocket

Posted by on October 3, 2011 No comments

Google went through a lot to buy ITA and its travel software, and we saw the acquisition first bear fruit in the form of Mountain View’s web-based Flight Search. Now the partnership has produced version 1.2 of the OnTheFly airfare booking app for Android, iOS and BlackBerry. What’s new? Flexible date searches that let you peruse departures 35 days at a time, plus a price graph that shows the most fiscally prudent times to travel. Additionally, globetrotters can access their itinerary search history and see price changes for those fares throughout the year. Nice job fellas, now let’s work on bringing bargain-basement fare finding for the final frontier in the next revision.

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