The curved Samsung Galaxy Round

[Anubis]

humm, curious about who is making the glass for the screen on that

 

[dbk]

Looks like it got run over - however, I do like the idea of it.

 

[Mopetar]

I think it would look good, until you turn it to landscape mode. I guess they need to make another one that curves that way.

I hadn't thought of that, but it's not so much of a curve that it should make it uncomfortable to hold or otherwise difficult to use.

 

[lopri]

I read somewhere the glass is actually flexible, not just curved. (but the body is a solid curve, obv.) Does anyone know about it?

 

[WelshBloke]

I read somewhere the glass is actually flexible, not just curved. (but the body is a solid curve, obv.) Does anyone know about it?

The OLED is flexible, I don't think the glass is any more flexible than normal GG (which is certainly flexible for glass). I'm more interested in the drop proofeyness of the flexible OLED TBH.

It would be nice to have a phone thats essentially immune from drop damage.

 

[Anubis]

you would be supprised at what there is out there for truely flexable glass. actually the glass would be the easy part, getting the TFT/touch portions and the LCD to be flexable and not break is harder

and nothing is immune from driop damage, unless you can somehow magically engineer glass with no edges

 

[TuxDave]

The OLED is flexible, I don't think the glass is any more flexible than normal GG (which is certainly flexible for glass). I'm more interested in the drop proofeyness of the flexible OLED TBH.

It would be nice to have a phone thats essentially immune from drop damage.

That and I'm a little worried about the body. Maybe the whole thing flexes a little. I can imagine there would be a significant amount of stress at the top of the arc if it was squished between two things. The whole thing is neat because it's different. But I haven't been sold on why it's better this way.

 

[Red Storm]

I'll be interested in this tech when phones actually become flexible, not just morphed into a static curved position.

 

[WelshBloke]

you would be supprised at what there is out there for truely flexable glass. actually the glass would be the easy part, getting the TFT/touch portions and the LCD to be flexable and not break is harder

and nothing is immune from driop damage, unless you can somehow magically engineer glass with no edges

GG is pretty bendy from the play I've had with it. Also the digitiser is and display bit of the flexible OLED is bendy.

The only weak point is, as you pointed out, edge impact on the glass. But if the glass is bonded to something flexible (the new flexible OLED panels) rather than something rigid (the old OLED panels were very brittle) it may allow the glass to give a bit more before cracking.

 

[WelshBloke]

That and I'm a little worried about the body. Maybe the whole thing flexes a little. I can imagine there would be a significant amount of stress at the top of the arc if it was squished between two things. The whole thing is neat because it's different. But I haven't been sold on why it's better this way.

I think the thing would tear itself apart if theres too much give in the body. A lot of the rest of the phone is still going to be ridgid (battery, motherboard, etc), and it all needs to bond together.

 

[Mopetar]

The only weak point is, as you pointed out, edge impact on the glass. But if the glass is bonded to something flexible (the new flexible OLED panels) rather than something rigid (the old OLED panels were very brittle) it may allow the glass to give a bit more before cracking.

What I want to know is if having the glass curve makes it more or less susceptible to fractures due to the way it transfers the impact through the structure.