14
2011
Nokia Stumps Samsung With It’s Interactive Bendable Display
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I still remember, back in the year 2001, when I bought my first cell phone, an Ericsson T-something, with an antenna on top of it and a flap to speak into, rock hard keys and a “solar calculator-ish” green screen with black dots upon it to display whatever the task it was performing. Yes, I was awestricken back then.
A decade after that day, we have moved forward a long way, from the world of black and white dotted displays to colored displays, LCD displays to HD LED displays, flash supporting displays to now touch sensitive displays, and yet we are still in awe.
Sometime back in January 2011, at CES, Samsung impressed the world with its Flexible OLED display (only). Last week Nokia showed off its own version of a flexible display which was way more astonishing than Samsung’s as it also included a flexible display with a user interface controlled by flexing and bending of the said screen. Just when we thought that touch screens were awesome, in comes Nokia’s new prototype saying no need to even touch the screen even! (Yes we have heard a lot about Apple’s SIRI, but due to difference in accents and pronunciations around the world, it is yet to be a hit.)
Nokia’s kinetic device supporting a flexible display helps user to flip through songs, pictures, emails, play music, zoom in and out by slightly bending it inwards and outwards. The Nokia representative from Finland suggests, (imaginative as he was) that people wearing gloves in winters aren’t able to use QWERTY keypads and touch-screens with their gloves on and this phone is exactly the solution they have waited for so long. One of the basic and strongest features of this flexible OLED display has been shown through the test, known as the “Under the Hammer” by many. This feature will most probably make this technology widely acknowledged and accepted among all the Mobile phones producers, as we see simple LCD displays getting crushed to pieces while the flexible OLED display doesn’t even bear a single scratch! The prototype is, however, still under development and at this speed, surely in around two to three years time we, the users, will fold a phone up and stash it into our wallets.
This is a guest post by Moosa Sharif, Telecommunications Engineer at ZAIN-KSA. He is interested in technology and follows it closely but does not call himself a geek. Follow him on Twitter here: @Moses57
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SAWJ is an Electrical Engineer from Pakistan. Not just that, he loves to code as well. There are three things he cannot live without: his laptop, his smartphone and the internet. Follow him on Twitter here: Senilius_110.
