At the end of 2013CES Samsung's Flexible screen Mobile phone products have won the attention of the people present. Then Corning also launched its own flexible glass Willow Glass, which is likely to be used in smart phones in the future. Several major pieces of mobile phones: mobile phone screen, mobile phone motherboard, mobile phone battery, mobile phone shell have been studied and matured in terms of flexibility. Now let's summarize the development status of mobile phone screen, mobile phone motherboard, mobile phone battery and mobile phone shell in terms of flexible technology, and see how far flexible mobile phones are from us?
1. Flexible screen
Samsung displayed the flexible screen Youm at this year's CES, and together with Microsoft, it displayed a Windows Phone mobile phone. However, Samsung is not the only manufacturer dedicated to developing flexible screens, including LG, Philips, Sharp, Sony and Nokia. It is also reported that LG's e-ink flexible screen has begun mass production.
Samsung flexible screen
The flexible screen displayed by Samsung at this CES
2. Flexible motherboard
In 2011, Queen's University of Canada released a concept device called "PaperPhone", which turned a mobile phone composed of flexible display and flexible motherboard into a reality. This mobile phone is displayed by a 9.5cm flexible electronic ink screen, and the motherboard printed on the flexible circuit board can also withstand folding.
PaperPhone demo video
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3. Flexible battery
When it comes to mobile phone batteries, you may first think that its endurance is still a problem. It is estimated that this problem is also difficult to solve. In fact, this is not the case. There have been many researches on flexible batteries. A development team of Korea Advanced Research Institute of Science and Technology released a video before, in which the researchers put a blue light LED light After connecting the flexible battery, manually bend the battery for several times in succession, but the blue light does not appear abnormal. In the test of voltage value, the researchers mechanically bent the flexible battery, and the voltage value remained unchanged. The following are the video screenshots previously published by the media:
In addition, Korean LG Chemical Company is also developing a kind of flexibility that looks like a wire Lithium ion battery 。 This kind of battery has excellent flexibility, can withstand a large range of bending and deformation, and can still work normally even after tying.
4. Flexible housing
The mobile phone's screen and motherboard can achieve this level of flexible technology Mobile phone shell The flexible technology is simpler. At present, many mobile phone shells can be bent to a certain extent, so there is basically no technical difficulty in making flexible mobile phone shells.
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Samsung may be the first manufacturer to show us mobile phones with flexible screens. According to the development status of these technologies introduced by Xiao Bian today, the four major flexible technologies of a mobile phone have developed to a certain extent. Now we are waiting to see who can take the lead and show us the first flexible mobile phone that combines flexible screen, flexible main board, flexible battery and flexible shell. Airline friends, do you expect it?
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