LG Display shows off a 12" display that can stretch to 14"

08 November 2022
The display is also flexible and semitransparent. It can be used in clothing, furniture, in cars and airplanes, fashion, gaming and more.

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Samath N8 808 owner, 14 Nov 2022I beg to disagree politely. Glass will break, I know, but ... moreI beg to disagree politely.
Glass will break, I know, but bendable display (the one in question here) is definitely not the same as curved display(Galaxy S7 Edge onwards for example), I believe there's a terminology confusion here.

My friend. Curved screen break more often. Just a little example to my claims. Try to glue tempered glass screen protector onto a curved screen such as S7 edge or S8, S22 etc. What happens. Glass will perfectly stick to a flat middle of the screen. In case of curved bottom, there will remain a lot of bubbles which you will not be able to push away that easily for a very simple reason.
If you press or push (sorry for my english) too hard to make air bubbles go away screen protector will breaks on curved sides if you dont press too hard you wont push any bubbles and thats a said fact.

As for LG, tell me just one thing: can a phone sell highest, despite not being available easily, despite no advertisements? This was LG's situation, they had very weak marketing in phones.

Man Marketing is not that important in the global pandemoc and economy crisis where people buy only what they really need and is a must for them they keep as much money as they could for a worse times.
Xiaomi in most markets in Eu have little to no advertising at all and they sells pretty well reason is a very simple for a low cost you or anyone else can get good specced device.
In case of LG even a lowcost device which xiaomi would sells for 100 such as A1 LG would sell the same thing for at least 180 bucks and without any advertising.
Better than any advertising is the brand name and price and this will represent quality and other aspects. Xiaomi ads can be disabled in settings. In a first time setup you can turn everything off problem solved. But since they sell a lot cheaper than LG ever was they sold much more devices without any advertising.

Let me give you a small city lookup: Samsung phones were available in around 350 stores in my city, for an LG phone, you had 3 retailers. Yes, 350 vs 3.
Their marketing was weak, no two words. When was the last time you saw an LG ad on TV, Radio, etc?
About this you are right and no at the same time. Is it right LG havent many or any phone advertising i saw only devices like TV, waschmaschine, microwawe oven etc but no phones.
But as i said before price is all that matters.
If they would give unbeatable price compared to specs many would buy. Nowdays in big pandemic and economy crisis when people keeps most of their money at homes or bank accounts they spend little on things they dont need. Mostly they buy specs comapred t price devices. Such as Note 12 explorer for 330. To me a best midranger money can buy in 2022.
No other company gives equal at the same price point thus company like Xiaomi is a very easy winner in midrange sales.
If for example last best phone by LG Velvet woould have initial price around 400 r up to 500 they could sells a lot. Since it did not happens and they asked 750 for it they deserved to die.

As for innovations, yes they cost money, but I totally love my LG G8x due to its innovations. Dual screen, the best audio quality, Snapdragon 855, in $300. Yes, actually.
Quality seekers will buy Sony anyhow. All will survive, companies need to give value.

Man lastly i understand how you feel and yes Sony is much more quality than most others but for nthing extra apart much more price.
For example Sony midranger cost 400-500 vendor dependable. And with specs xiaomi can make genuine same phone for 250 realme brand for 250-300 etc.
Quality is fine as long as you wish to keep your device for a long time. Even Sony updating is fine ojnly problem is they are just like Apple or Google phones.
In the end you will have very updated device with akll apps and android updated several times but a hardware unable to run these new apps because it will be very outdated.
Even Iphone 8 with latest IOS cant run most apps especialy games because 2GB of ram is not sufficient for anything and SE2022 with just laughable 64GB disk space at 2022 year had a starting price of nearly 500 which is just way too much.

So this is my view at LG and others.
All that matters is price because most people swaps their device every 2-3 years immediately as they can grab new device from their network carrier on a 2 year monthly plan which represents 70% of people rest buys for cash and top up their credit whenever they needs.

    AnonD-731363, 09 Nov 2022Man glass is glass and it will breaks. Curved glass is mo... moreI beg to disagree politely.
    Glass will break, I know, but bendable display (the one in question here) is definitely not the same as curved display(Galaxy S7 Edge onwards for example), I believe there's a terminology confusion here.

    As for LG, tell me just one thing: can a phone sell highest, despite not being available easily, despite no advertisements? This was LG's situation, they had very weak marketing in phones.

    Let me give you a small city lookup: Samsung phones were available in around 350 stores in my city, for an LG phone, you had 3 retailers. Yes, 350 vs 3.
    Their marketing was weak, no two words. When was the last time you saw an LG ad on TV, Radio, etc?

    As for innovations, yes they cost money, but I totally love my LG G8x due to its innovations. Dual screen, the best audio quality, Snapdragon 855, in $300. Yes, actually.
    Quality seekers will buy Sony anyhow. All will survive, companies need to give value.

      PhoneFreak45, 14 Nov 2022Agreed with you there. It's a bit embarassing for the ... moreAbsolutely.
      Google is to blame partially. For no clear reason, they stopped DSD (hardware) playback support Android 10 onwards.
      Then, LG closing down was a big reason. Plus, some brands like Oneplus, IQOO, etc delivered good products in Gen 1, eventually they lost focus, creating "also participated" devices for mass market. I wish this changes.

        Anonymous, 08 Nov 2022It's amazing tech, imagine digital clothing where you ... moreAnd the tiny speakers they'd have to have to fit in the shirt- *mo-crackle-ooa-cracklecrackle-annn* I feel so immature writing this but we all know this would happen. Somehow bad speakers adds a layer of comedy to it.

          Samath N8 808 owner, 09 Nov 2022I think you made a terribly wrong assumption there. Bendabl... moreAgreed with you there. It's a bit embarassing for the industry as a whole that nearly 3 years after the last LG flagship was released, there's still nothing to replace it just because I'm an audiophile.

            updater, 10 Nov 2022LG Mobile was sold/closed long time agoLast year - so not that long ago at all. Also, they're still obligated to provide software updates, but obviously in this case this customer is being pretty unreasonable about it.

              HerryHernandez, 10 Nov 2022LG always innovates without paying attention to customer de... moreYeah I know right like not having android 13 on your phone 3 months after the release - dealbreaker. Inexcusable. Especially when they just have to press a button, lazy people. (Sarcasm)

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                HerryHernandez, 10 Nov 2022LG always innovates without paying attention to customer de... moreLG Mobile was sold/closed long time ago

                  LG always innovates without paying attention to customer desires in the midst of strong competition. What LG is doing is actually a great thing, but after customers buy expensive innovations, LG Mobile always doesn't care about consumers when it comes to software updates. We always buy expensive waiting for LG to release the latest products, even though other brands only provide through software updates.

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                    The picture in the article kinda reminds me of pizza dough

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                      Marco M, 09 Nov 2022Highly unlikely, as scratch resistant usually means hard. ... moreYep, the more flexible it is, the more scratchable it will be.

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                        Samath N8 808 owner, 09 Nov 2022I think you made a terribly wrong assumption there. Bendabl... moreMan glass is glass and it will breaks.
                        Curved glass is more fragile version of flat glass and will breaks even more often.
                        LG despuite it was great company it did not sell due to a single fact they spend too much on innovations which were costly but not worth.
                        And just like Sony Samsung or Apple they seek money unable to sell cheap so their phone lines got oblitterated by chinese market.
                        Hope i explained to you way you should understand.

                          Marco M, 09 Nov 2022Fully functional phones for wrist have been around for a wh... moreOk, so it exists. Well, nice to know this, thanks for the info. But its still an inconvenient, small screen, not exactly replacing our Galaxy flagships and all, or even a midrange.

                          What I imagine will replace the phone, is a big bendable display that will surround your entire wrist in a watch form and can come off and be a straight display phone instantly, through some built in tightening/straightening mechanism. I have a feeling the day is not far when some company will actually do this... I hope it happens.

                            AnonD-731363, 09 Nov 2022Well gladf LG is out of mobile bussiness. Those companies... moreI think you made a terribly wrong assumption there. Bendable display is not always fragile, in fact its more resistant to breakage. Think about it: If you drop a (bendable) rubber bag, will it break?
                            In fact, its plain glass which is more suspectible to breakage. Even more than plastic of most kinds.

                            As for LG, with all due respect, I disagree with you. Plain and simple. They were one of the most innovating companies around in the mobile scene. An article on GSMA also spoke on this.

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                              Anonymous , 08 Nov 2022So that means the "rollable" would possibleSurely. They just happened to shut down before they could, ahem, roll out the demoed phone during the LG Velvet launch promotion.

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                                AnonD-731363, 09 Nov 2022Well gladf LG is out of mobile bussiness. Those companies... moreThem not having a mobile division doesn't stop them from using this. And even if they didn't, someone else will.

                                The nuclear bombs will still be invented even if Albert Einstein wasn't born in this world.

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                                  It's future

                                    Anonymous, 09 Nov 2022Just hope its scratch resistant.Highly unlikely, as scratch resistant usually means hard.

                                    It could be outfitted with self healing type of coating, perhaps. For the very finest of scratches, but I would assume this is some sort of polymer that will be prone to scratches.

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                                      crispcketlicker, 08 Nov 2022Imagine when things like this are a reality... Companies wi... moreIf this becomes reality we are really screwed.

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                                        Well gladf LG is out of mobile bussiness.
                                        Those companies should innovate something useful.
                                        Fragile bendable, curvable and stretchable dispalys are no for me.
                                        Apart money tossed out of windows customers get nothing just a much more fragile screen compared to basic flat one which can be easily covered by a good screen protector and a book case.
                                        Those so called manufacturers and research laggs should work on something much more usefull and not on a useless technology with no bright future.

                                        Something like for example thorium ells which are capable of refueling on its own.
                                        or a bigger faster disk but with sane or even smaller size and lower heating. Anything that is possible and worth.

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